[Clipart] Link-Partnering Project

Sat May 14 23:06:30 PDT 2005

The "Dear Webmaster" opening, plus the lack of any reference to
ourselves or what we do is the main clue.  Also check out their website
and note it has nothing about clipart, nor SVG, nor especially public
domain.  They're simply trying to drive up hits to their website to
collect buyers.

In general, anyone who contacts you and asks for a link to their site is
not worthy of the link - if they were, then you'd have already heard of
their site and have added a link already. ;-)

Bryce

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:05:33PM -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 22:29 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Yeah, it's spam
> 
> I think human spam, right? Okay...I'm keeping my eyes peeled for...I
> wanna be like Kees in averting the spammers... ;)
> 
> Jon
> 
> > On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:19:40PM -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > > Would you all consider this spam? Hmmm...I don't see anything that
> > > specifically address OCAL...hmmmm...
> > > 
> > > Jon
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 16:54 -0700, Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form
> > > wrote:
> > > > Name: Alex Romane
> > > > E-mail: aiukstudio1 at yahoo.com
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Dear Webmaster,
> > > > 
> > > > Audio Interact (www.audiointeract.com) specialises in the production
> > > > of multimedia audio and we are currently seeking 'partners' to trade
> > > > website links with and we believe that trading links with you could
> > > > be highly beneficial for both parties as our companies both sell
> > > > non-competitive products/services into the same markets.
> > > > 
> > > > We are one of the best performers in our field (voted above
> > > > BBC) as we can deliver audio across the web in FM-CD STEREO QUALITY,
> > > > starting instantly and running for up to 2 minutes in length and
> > > > without interruption. Our competitors are still below FM Quality and
> > > > in mono and quite often with long download times or interruptions.
> > > > 
> > > > We even link to our best global competitors as potential clients are
> > > > able to experience the difference. The reduced quality and increased
> > > > delivery time of our competition actually helps to sell Audio
> > > > Interact services.
> > > > 
> > > > Trading links would have two main benefits for both parties:
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Increased ranking with search engines (particularly Google)
> > > > 2. Increased traffic (potential customers)
> > > > 
> > > > Search engines now put much importance on incoming links to sites
> > > > (back-links), as well as links from sites when assessing sites for
> > > > ranking. The more quality links any site has pointing to it from
> > > > other sites, the higher the ranking. The same is also true of
> > > > out-bound links.
> > > > 
> > > > As you have a quality site in a related field to and, ranked
> > > > similarly to audiointeract.com, we would like to trade links with you
> > > > primarily to help raise the search engine ranking of both sites as
> > > > both sites have far more potential towards the top of our respective
> > > > search results.
> > > > 
> > > > Direct traffic from site-to-site is not the main concern with this
> > > > proposal - the idea is largely a mechanism that will help both sites
> > > > with search engine ranking so that both sites may then do better,
> > > > with traded visitors being a by-product and not the priority.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Audio Interact.com Ranking (awaiting Google)
> > > > 
> > > > Keyword:        UK Results:                Global Results:
> > > > 
> > > > website audio   Pos. 46 (of 10,000,000)    Pos. 74 (of 65,000,000)
> > > > audio interact  Pos. 1 + 3 (of 300,000)    Pos. 1 (of 300,000)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > In April 2005, we replaced the BBC and ABC at the top 2 positions on
> > > > all global searches under the term 'Audio Interact' - an industry
> > > > term as well as our company name.
> > > > 
> > > > I would be grateful to hear of any interest or any feedback ASAP, as
> > > > this is an urgent matter that is very quick and simple to implement.
> > > > 
> > > > *Please do not respond if you insist that we link to each other
> > > > through anything other than a pure html hyper-text link as search
> > > > engines do not read text in graphics etc and, for the purpose of this
> > > > proposal - the text content of the links is what is important here as
> > > > it must be the same as our respective keywords and this is what the
> > > > engines put most weight on.
> > > > 
> > > > Yours,
> > > > 
> > > > Alex Romane (Marketing)
> > > > 
> > > > www.audiointeract.com
> > > > aiukstudio1 at yahoo.com
> > > > 
> > > > 
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