There is a very fine line between "helpful" and "self promotion".

But the unique stays are doing good and being promoted more on AIRBNB website.

@Michael Plante - the urinal gets promoted to the garage

One of our students ranks #1.This is their stats:The guy ranking #1, is one of our students and I have access to his stats and leads:They have 33,000 backlinks while the guy ranking #1 only has 20 brutally outperforming them both in ranking and I can assure you, I DOUBT they get (many if any) SEO leads in that market.Carrot was promoting them because they make money off of each other completely fooling many people that blindly trust Carrot. 

This was your bizarre comment, "Anyone else getting the sneaking suspicion that REI Reply hired someone in the Philippines to make several profiles on BP and try to promote their service??"

Tried posting it here but got in trouble for self promoting.  

I always steer clear of Angie's List, Yelp, BP Vendor, Dave Ramsey Select Vendors, or any other service that charges the vendor for membership and then promotes the list to the public as if trust, excellence, and performance have ANYTHING to do with the list selection. 

Nowhere is wholesaling the attractive “lifestyle” promoted by people with something to sell you.  

Two new posters here and the first thing you trying to do is to promote your $39 a month software?

So doing this stuff is VERY ineffective and a bad use of time UNLESS you are like me and helping others is a life purpose for you.Also check their social media, if all you see is them promoting their guru programs, then you know THAT is all they are.