Pro Wrestling Power

I hate to bash other people’s work, but I think we’d all agree that there are some pretty awful pro wrestling websites out there. Yes, I’m well aware that I haven’t updated this blog since June of 2010, but then again this is an opinion blog, not a news and rumor site, and I’ll update it when I’m good and ready,  so I hereby exempt Pro Wrestling Power from this conversation because I can.

In regards to these other sites though, what I mean by awful isn’t necessarily the content or the design of these websites, but the unbelievably obnoxious advertising. In light of this, I’d like to take this moment to apologize to anyone who has come to my site in the past year or so and clicked on some of the flat-out garbage links I provided in the right side bar, which are now removed. Actually, I’m mainly targeting one site in this rant and I’ll get to that in a minute.

Almost every pro wrestling website has annoying, obtrusive advertising that makes you never want to go back, but you do anyway because you want the latest news and rumors in the industry and you don’t know where else to turn online. For the most part though, these websites are tolerable.

Take Wrestlezone for instance. It’s a fantastic site, with a great forum,  a nice layout, generally good reporting (although they rarely break stories) and an overall good user experience. The only negatives that I can see is that they associate with Mark Madden, who is among the lowest scum on earth, and they have some fairly annoying “scroll-over” advertising. But it’s definitely not bad enough to make you want to strangle the webmaster, at least in my opinion.

That being said, the one site I felt compelled to remove from my links list is the king of horrible advertising on a pro wrestling website. It makes all of these other sites look tame with their advertising. It’s screwed up my computer one too many times where I had to restart because it overtook my Firefox browser and froze everything. This website is…

PW Insider. Seriously, what the heck is these guys’ problem anyway? Are you aware that your site is such a piece of crap? I’m well aware that they break a lot of stories, and they are respected in some circles, but they need to drastically change up the advertising and maybe make it so their website doesn’t bring down Internet browsers or entire computers.

Aren’t these the same people that put out the wrestling observer newsletter, like Dave Schererererer or whatever the heck his name is (I may have thrown a few too many “er’s” in there)? Oh wait, I think that’s Dave Meltzer…whatever. I know that PW Insider offers some type of paid subscription news service, and that they should be happy with using their site as promotion for the newsletter subscription and find some other ways to profit from the wrestling business besides completely littering their site with ads and making it use up all of your CPU memory with spyware.

I just did a little research and I found this article written in 2010 that also talks about about PW Insider and their despicable advertising and spyware: http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/9/20/1700127/an-open-letter-to-the-staff-of

Actually, after initially publishing this post and then coming back to edit it after doing some more research, I’ve come to the revelation that this is all pretty well-known in the Internet wrestling community. It seems that almost everyone but me knows that PW Insider is a spyware-filled, garbage wrestling site that may give your computer a virus and is run by a complete toolbag who has no business taking up air on this planet, the aforementioned Dave Scherer.

Here’s my open letter to Schererererererererer and the apparently scummy people that run PW Insider. The article I provided a link to above is wondering if there’s such a thing as Google bombing and if we can sabotage PW Insider. Well you’ll be happy to know that yes, there is. It’s called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and I happen to be a professional. So basically, my message is to fix your crappy site, remove the spyware and viruses and reduce the advertising, or get ready to be absolutely obliterated through social media, search engine results and every other means of online marketing known to man.