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How you know what blogs are fake, especially when it comes to travel blogs, information you trust before going on your next holiday. Hotels are increasing tempted to write their own fake reviews to boost up the rating of their hotel before visiting. They’ll actually hire people to write reviews of their hotel on various sites to artificially boost the rating. Not only that, but even some of the Lonely Planet Guides you’ve read might be completely fake.

Fake Lonely Planet Travel Guides?
One of its former writers claimed he had made up sections in the Lonely Planet Guides leading to fake information. Ok, well the information is not entirely fake, he claimed his fake articles came from other outside sources, not from personal experiences. “They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia. I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating - an intern at the Colombian consulate,” he was quoted as telling Australia’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

Not only that, he was quoted saying that after having sex with a waitress on a table after hours, he reviewed the restaurant with the words “the table service is friendly”.

Who Can You Trust? Fake Blogs
How do you even know that the information you read that is claimed to be a personal experience is even true? With companies hiring people to bloat their ratings, and marketers use dirty means to promote their business by created fake people on sites such as yahoo answers or even myspace, how do we even know what’s legit? The answer, we honestly don’t know.

Ways to Get Real Opinions from Fake Blogs
Don’t rely just on one source. Look for multiple reviews.
Check out reviewers other posts. It might show you a trend of whether they are really giving honest answers.

Remember that even though the Lonely Planet Guide writer did write about stuff he didn’t actually experience, most of what he wrote did come from a source. Even though many blogs are stealing information and claiming the experiences as their own, at least they did happen, and as long as it wasn’t completed fabricated, even stolen advice might still be good advice.