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Dodgy Ways of Generating Website
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Spamming
Email Spamming
Email spamming for
website traffic generally refers to sending massive amounts of email
about your offer or website to people who did not ask to receive
it. This can be done by hiring a bulk email mailing service or by
buying software that you install on your computer and then use to turn
your PC into a mass mailing machine. Neither of these methods is
recommended. Both can get your website taken offline (if enough of
your email recipients complain to your server), banned from the search
engines and you thrown in jail if done incorrectly. In 2003,
Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act which, paraphrased, says:
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and
Marketing Act requires unsolicited, commercial e-mail messages to be
labeled (though not by a standard method) and to include opt-out
instructions and the sender's physical address. It prohibits the use
of deceptive subject lines and false headers in such messages.
Spam was not outlawed entirely; it was just regulated,
which is why you still receive it. But
as much as you hate it, so will anyone who receives it from you to
advertise your website. Servers that host websites and
the search engines also despise it and will take down or delete your
website if they find out you are spamming for visitors. And unless
you really know how to hide your tracks, they will find out.
The risk of alienation if just not worth it.
Search Engine Spamming
Search engine spamming refers to flooding the engines
will hundreds or thousands of website pages that are essentially the
same as a way to get more exposure in the engines. This used to be
quite popular as a traffic-generating method but these days the engines
know the trick and will either ban your website from their listing or
will keep the pages in the listing but make sure they are so buried that
no one will ever see them. In short, spamming the engines will
cause your website more harm than good.
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