[Clipart] Link-Partnering Project

[Bryce Harrington]

Yeah, it's spam

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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> Jon Phillips
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