Re: Search engine spamming

Peter:

Does this perhaps refresh your memory?

Interestingly, I show this as the same thread.

PeterMcC wrote:
Will Spencer wrote in

pan.2004.07.03.11.52.56.581000 (AT) ...-faq (DOT) com

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 06:19:44 +0000, andybdir wrote:

While it does appear that Bdir is visiting site stats to increase
the
number of inbound links this is not actually the reason. We did not
ever consider or realise the effect this would have.
The Bdir team are involved in a large project that required
visiting
pages frequently and then be able to see how long it would take the
web masters to notice.

Please, you insult our intelligence with such outrageous
statements.

We have been to your home page and we see clearly that you are
spammers.

We have also noted that your home page is PR4, which forces us to
conclude that you are not very good spammers.

Google shows 116 backlinks for your main page, and still it is only
PR4. I would guess that this is related to the fact that each web
statistics page has 10, 30, or 100 referrer links. You're not
getting much PR from each link.

Plus, it should be noted that you are not getting any anchor text
at
all.

aol>Me too!</aol

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P.S. This should be a real test of newsspeak's ability to translate
quoted text!

Will.Spencer wrote in
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Peter:

Does this perhaps refresh your memory?

Interestingly, I show this as the same thread.


PeterMcC wrote:
Will Spencer wrote in

pan.2004.07.03.11.52.56.581000 (AT) ...-faq (DOT) com

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 06:19:44 +0000, andybdir wrote:

While it does appear that Bdir is visiting site stats to increase the
number of inbound links this is not actually the reason. We did not
ever consider or realise the effect this would have.
The Bdir team are involved in a large project that required visiting
pages frequently and then be able to see how long it would take the
web masters to notice.

Please, you insult our intelligence with such outrageous statements.

We have been to your home page and we see clearly that you are
spammers.

We have also noted that your home page is PR4, which forces us to
conclude that you are not very good spammers.

Google shows 116 backlinks for your main page, and still it is only
PR4. I would guess that this is related to the fact that each web
statistics page has 10, 30, or 100 referrer links. You're not
getting much PR from each link.

Plus, it should be noted that you are not getting any anchor text at
all.

aol>Me too!</aol

Oooh, dear! Did you say that? And did I agree with you?

In case I had been too hasty, I visited the site again after the last post
(no I don't mean after the sun had set and the bugler had done his thing)
and it is truly dreadful. I can't imagine what it's for other than
collecting £10 per listing. I find it impossible to use - I never managed to
get to anything that wasn't a page of sub-sets. Try a search for, say, a
carpet cleaner in your county - it simply doesn't get you to a supplier - it
just rotates through internal directory pages.

Every one of the business directories that I checked carried the news flash
"...the [insert location] business directory www.bdir.co.uk tops 500,000
hits in one month..." That's a remarkable coincidence.

At half a million hits a month for things like the "Abbots Leigh business
directory", they must be running at around 1 billion hits per month for the
whole site.

I don't suppose they could be fibbing could they?


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