Forum Moderators: phranque
<snip>
I clicked on one of the links and got a web page telling me that if I sign up with them, "Your link will be made available to the top 200,000 webmasters through their logfiles, using a brand new advertising concept called Ad-referral".
They also say this will "boost your ranking on search engines" and have a Google graphic below their claim.
Has anyone else seen this garbage before?
Sirius
[edited by: NFFC at 11:17 am (utc) on Oct. 24, 2002]
[edit reason] URL's removed [/edit]
I encounter a few of these now and again, I don't really take notice of what they offer - I very rarely bother to check out the pages they point to unless they really intrique me (i seem to remember a dutch se conference was the last one i bothered to read much about).
I can't really see how they can boost rankings - the only possible way that springs to mind is if a site were using log analysis package which stored html reports on the website, that URL was turned into a HREF by the software *and* these logs were allowed to be spidered - you *might* get a boost that way, but...
1) These logs are normally not heavily linked to within the site so they would get little of the site's "value" transferred to them.
2) You are very unlikely to be the only referral URL turned into a link so the "value" will be further deminished since you have one page linking to lots of sites.
3) If everyone else realised that this strategy worked then point 2 becomes even more accutely obvious.
4) If they were to heavily spam a site's logs it would be rather obvious whom they were promoting.
- Tony
When the Spam Hits the Blogs [wired.com]
