[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] interested in purchasing textlink advertising

[Jon Phillips]

Yeah, that is no good...we could consider some type of adverts in the
future if interested in raising money, but could make a lot more than
that...anyway, would that taint our image?

Wikipedia could raise millions to support all kinds of projects, but
resist on trust/reputation reasons...what about us?

Jon

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:18 -0700, Greg Bulmash wrote:
> I didn't reply to the first contact and he followed up.  When I 
> responded he offered me $200 to put 1 paragraph of text on three 
> different pages of my blog.
> 
> This was not random spam.  It's targeted grey-hat SEO.  OCAL's homepage 
> has a Google pagerank of 7 and thousands of backlinks.  If it linked out 
> to their SEO clients with the right keywords in the links, that could be 
> worth a lot of money.
> 
> They're not trying to sell OCAL anything.  They're trying to buy 
> something... a bit of OCAL's reputation.
> 
> And the whole "reply to a spammer and validate your e-mail address" 
> thing is so 1999.  Botnet masters have made spamming so cheap, no one 
> cares about address quality anymore.
> 
> - Greg
> 
> 
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Greg Bulmash wrote:
> >> I got an e-mail with this exact wording, but from a guy.  The offer he 
> >> made was lowball, insulting, and would involve me in a grey-hat SEO 
> >> scheme that could potentially end in negative repercussions for my 
> >> site's Google ranking.
> >>
> >> I told the guy only an idiot would actually accept his offer.
> > 
> > It seems you made the mistake to reply to a spammer, thus validating 
> > your email address and making you (and probably this list) a sure target 
> > for future spam.
> > 
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