Weird Linkage — What’s This All About?
Posted on September 28, 2005
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I’m not making a link on purpose, since I have a weird suspicion about the function of this, but I wanted to ask: why the hell would this organization put a link to my homepage on their index?
http://www.3marketeersproductions.com/newhomepage/index.php
And the contact page seems only to include info about their mailing list. I just don’t get why the hell they’re linking to me. And there’s a link to my site on an Optometrist’s Association Home Page, too. WTF?
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Which reminds me.
Last week, I received spam that was offering to put gay-related advertising on your website.
Maybe I shouldn’t have deleted it so fast.
Ha! Well, I’m not sure my website gets so much traffic from that demographic, really, and anyway, I’d rather leap out a window than accept any advertising being posted on my site. It was one of the reasons I left Blogger, way back when.
Hmm, that worked. I decided to sign up for the same log-in on another blog, too, but had trouble there.
Anyway, I’m told that sometimes spammer-types will create linkages in the hopes that other people’s statcounters will publically show who’s linking to their pages. Then the “businessmen” can create a bit more traffic for themselves.
It’s weird, though, since I only find my own page’s link displayed. I don’t get why there’s not a whole sidebar of links.
since when are you obliged to put advertising on a blogger page? News to me.
Blogger used to put banner ads and a blogger bar on every Blogger site. This was back in, oh, 2002, or 2003, I think. Now you just have the little bar at the top, but there used to be banner ads at the top of every page. It was annoying, for me anyway.
Ahhh.OK. Well thank the Lord they got rid of that!
Yeah. It was obnoxious.