Be Aware Everyone

BE careful when submitting links or at least be aware.

Interesting thing I discovered today. One of the forums I’m involved in, Band of Gonzos, has a new member (for a few weeks) that has introduced herself twice now and I’m convinced she is just promoting her own forum and Hosting site…

Anyway… She also has a directory on her forums website. It’s actually integrated into the forum.

So she posts a few weeks ago about this directory and says, “Go on, it only takes a few moments to sign in and submit your sites!”

Well, one of the the first problems is you have to register in the forum in order to submit your site (unique and strange)…

BUT the bigger problem is this:

She posted again today and I thought I would go in and take a look at my listings in the directory. They weren’t there!… Did she decline them?

So I signed in and sure enough they are there! I have to be signed in to view them.

You know what that means? That means so do the Search Engines… Oh, that’s right! Search Engines don’t know my password! I guess they won’t see my links.

So needless to say THAT was a waste of time.

The forum says there are over 200 members… well that’s not accurate. That’s just people signing up to submit their sites that no one will see!

The real truth is that this person is just selling her own services. She is basically spamming our forum in a unique way…

AND it’s very possible the reason my Hosting Website doesn’t show up in her directory is because SHE has a hosting site or some of her buddies do and they don’t want the competition… She displays one in her signature at the forum I’m at…

So that just goes to show you what people will do.

Wasted my time for sure… but gave me an opportunity to educate!