[Clipart] [marketing] Link to OpenClipart.org today!

[Alan Horkan]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Stephen Silver wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:06:06 +0100
> From: Stephen Silver <ocalocal at btinternet.com>
> To: Open Clip Art Library list <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] [marketing] Link to OpenClipart.org today!
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > Jon Phillips shamelessly pimping OpenClipart.org in his journal
>
> (For anyone who didn't see it, this consisted of 40 identical
> links to www.openclipart.org.)
>
> I'd just like to point out that this was a really bad idea.
> Far from improving the Google ranking of openclipart.org,
> this sort of thing could consign it to Google oblivion.
> Google is not as dumb as it used to be, and it doesn't take
> kindly to being spammed.

Yes but memes and googlebombs still work which is why a good wide spread
of one or two links from a lot of different places is what we really want.

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