[Woodcarver] Is this a scam???

[Mike Huber]

It sounds like a link farm to me. The idea is to boost their Google rating
by having lots of web sites link to them. The more ethical ones would
reciprocate, by adding a link back to your site. Google has always worked
on the idea that if a site is good, people will link to it, so they use the
number of links to a site to decide which sites should go to the top of the
list.

Link farms aren't exactly a scam, but they aren't very legitimate either.
Google is on to them, and has been for years. Google considers them kind of
like spam, and they don't count towards a site's link count. They don't
work anymore. But some people keep trying.

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Mike Huber




On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Sally Nye <fancarversworld at gmail.com>wrote:


> Jan, these folks have been after us to link on our site. I haven't done

> it. I don't know if it's a scam or not.

> Sally

> FanCarversWorld.com <http://www.fancarversworld.com/>

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> On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Jan Oegema <jancarves3 at rogers.com> wrote:

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> They are asking ME to place  them on my links Any info out there ????

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> http://www.sofasandsectionals.com/wood-carving-guide

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> Hey jan, I see you post this link and I am trying to figure out if its

> a scam and what type of scam it is.....these people write to me

> everyone in a while, posing as a child, saying this is their teachers

> site and could I could I put it up on my website....on my links

> page....I keep explaining to them that I won't because it is a

> commercial furniture site. I keep asking for someone to contact me. I

> am willing to promote their carving group just not their furniture

> business which has nothing to do with carving. Another carver told me

> that this carving page had been copied directly from someone else site.

> I know you think you are trying to do something nice for these kids but

> some kind of scam is going on.  Perhaps this should be brought to the

> attention of the wood carving community to see if a lot of folks are

> being contacted about this.

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> Sincerely

> Maura Cooper Macaluso

>              Woodbutcher jan

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> You are invited to check out my website..

>        http://www.janscarvingstudio.com

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