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March 29, 2006

EMAIL Hell - More fun with Link Exchanging

by Ferdinand T Cat

The link exchange is a time-honored method of raising a web site's visibility. You find another site with a similar theme, and offer to link to them if they also link to you. In the past few years, spammers have gotten into the act, using automated software to seek out websites and record the success or failure of the link exchange. Some of these automated programs look for anything that might be a feedback form, and as a result we are constantly bombarded with link exchange requests couched as carnival submission to the ever-popular No Carnival Selected.

Today we got several of these things via EMAIL. This, of course, destroyed any credibility the link exchange request could have had: it was sent to every one of our EMAIL addresses except mine. What's interesting about this one, however, is the reason they think Conservative Cat is a good fit:

Hello, I have found your website conservativecat.com by searching Yahoo for "islam muslim powerpoint presentation template". I think our websites has a similar theme, so I have already added your link to my website.

If you will not approve your listing in 10 days, link will be automatically removed.

We are in fact in the low eighties on the Yahoo list for Islamic Powerpoint Presentation Templates; however, if people are going to come here looking for advice on the topic, it is incumbent on me as a superior life form to insure they don't leave empty-handed. So here is my advice for people creating Islamic Powerpoint Presentation Templates:

Do not use drawings of the Prophet Mohammed as a background watermark.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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At least they write you in English. Mine mostly come in the original Arabic--or French, German, Chinese, etc. so I can't even have any fun mockin' 'em!


Posted by: Harrison at March 29, 2006 11:21 AM

My offers come through mostly in Japanese and Italian - which is interesting because I speak Chinese and Spanish, but understand only a very few words of Japanese and Italian (roughly 30% of which cannot be repeated anyway).

Still - nice to know you're drawing the Islamic Powerpoing audience.


Posted by: The Random Yak at March 29, 2006 12:00 PM

Since you suggest not using the drawings in the Islamic Powerpoint Presentations, how do you feel about using the fish image instead?
http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/03/allah_and_moham.php


Posted by: Lilo at March 29, 2006 1:01 PM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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