Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

Could ReputationHawk.com Help Kimkins?

ReputationHawk.com has an interesting business model. It caters to businesses and organizations that have been the victims of effectively targeted criticism on the Internet. I can imagine that anyone would be looking for help if they Googled the name of their business and saw more bad than good on the first page.

Google Kimkins and you see words like fraud, dangers, nightmare, controversy and survivors.

Heidi Diaz and staff spent much of the early post exposure period changing the site over and over again in response to precise criticism and repeatedly claimed that past criticisms were no longer valid. This sounds like the first step that Reputation Hawk asks their potential clients to take. I still have my doubts that they would be interested in Kimkins because of the big lie on which it was based. That’s not going away.

Actually Chris Martin of ReputationHawk told Newsweek that “Some people have made their bed and need to sleep in it.” What I think he means is, his service is intended to push unfair and/or outdated criticism off the first page of a Google search, not valid and current stuff. I think that as well as being wrong, that would also be MUCH more difficult.

Blogging About Kimkins

I haven’t been very active with my anti-kimkins blogging efforts lately. I think that giving a nod to the people who are still in the thick of things is the least that I can do to keep those search engine pages fair and balanced.

BamaGal is pretty busy over at Kimkins Scam. If you visit her site, be forewarned that there is a leprechaun shaking his naked butt on one of her March posts.

On a more serious note, Becky has recently published an Official Update on the Kimkins Case from John Tiedt.

Changes at Kimkins.com

There is no longer a link to the Controversy page AKA the Debate page on the front of Kimkins.com. I based a post on the fact that Kimmer was no longer pictured on the “Watch Us Lose” table despite stating that she had recently lost over fifty pounds. Well, there’s Kimmer. Her stats show a big weight loss as does her current picture. She replaced another member who was listed as having lost a whooping seven pounds.

Where’s Kimmer?

The controversy page on Kimkins and the Kimkins homepage don’t match up. It’s not so much a lie as an oversight.

Here is the sentence I am referring to…

Here is a screencap from Kimkins, slightly modified for the purposes of lulz…

Heidi is writing about a 50lb weight loss AND she has stopped documenting her progress on the front page. It doesn’t add up (or subtract up, depending on how you look at it).

Freedom of Information

If you are really interested in the minute details of the legal proceedings related to Kimkins, you might be interested in Riverside Civil Court Open Access. Anyone can view documents related to the case, or just about any other case.

I am not in a reading mood today. My most insightful observation is related to the clerical quality standards. One page was copied on an pretty extreme diagonal. I wish people took more pride in their work.

Kimmkins With Two M’s

I don’t know why I didn’t have this thought process until just now. The people who are at the most risk of suffering financially and/or with regard to their health are also very likely to have poor spelling. They aren’t going to stumble upon the fact that Kimkens is a fraud if all of the anti-kimkins blogs diligently check their spelling. I shouldn’t imply that only unintelligent people are joining Kimmkins. A smart person with the right combination of a trusting nature and a burning desire to lose weight quickly is just as likely to throw their money down the well that is the Kimkins site.

Alcohol

There is anecdotal evidence and some hearsay that Heidi Diaz struggles with alcoholism. Her recent blog post about alcohol speaks volumes by saying almost nothing at all. There are carbs in alcoholic drinks. That is true, but there is also alcohol. Alcohol is a mind altering and addictive substance. If there is one aspect of this woman that gets my unadulterated sympathy it is the drinking.

For people without issues related to alcohol (extending to family members as well), consider drinking 1 glass of red wine several days per week. It has been shown to benefit blood cholesterol ratios.

Where are All the Pro-Kimkins Blogs?

If you perform a Google Blog Search for the term Kimkins, you see that the only kimkins supporter on the first page is, well, Heidi Diaz. Heidi has more than one blog, but the only item on the front page is form the subdirectory of her website.

I found an article from some LawyersAndSettlements.com a few pages in that looks interesting.

I think that blogs rank higher in this search when there are frequent and recent posts related to the search term. Heidi’s blogspot blog shows up on page six of the search.

Page Rank

Kimkins has a Google page rank of 3. Many of the upstart blogs criticizing the site have a PR of 4.

Google uses a largely secret algorithm to determine these numbers. Some people say that they put ten cats in a wet cardboard box and then go for a short coffee break. When they come back, they give your site a page rank based on the number of cats remaining in the box. Or maybe it’s the number that got out. Hey, I am not a software engineer.

Good News about Weight Loss

There is good news this morning. A medical study has concluded that moderate weight loss in overweight adults improves heart health. It further indicated that the benefit was there whether you chose diet, exercise or a combination. The best part of this is that benefits are immediate and apparent. People who know that they need to lose several pounds do not seem to take late onset diabetes and high blood pressure as a call to action. If you are conclusively told that you will feel younger if you lose weight, is that enough motivation?