Title changer-submission tool

[Benson]

I'm looking at a script now that works like this (taken from the readme file):

So I designed Search Engine Warrior not only to automatically post a list
of URL's to the major engines at predetermined intervals, but I also added
the ability for it to automatically change the contents of the title
tags in a list of webpages at after a certain number of days. This causes
the search engines to give you multiple listings for the same webpage
under different keywords, vastly improving your ranking and exposure.

Does this sound like a useful tool or a stupid one?

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alba gu brath

[Deb]

It depends on what this person considers a "search engine"

Try that on Yahoo and you'll end up banned all together with no listing..

Same goes for many of the other true engines out there.

Now for Free-4-All link pages and smaller engines.. yes it would probably work.. but for the big engines you would be honestly concerned about --- I wouldn't use it.

My ten cents http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

Deb

[This message has been edited by Deb (edited 01-11-99).]

[auteur]

Try that on most you'll end up at the bottom of the barrel...and actually I don't see how you'd end up with multiple submission listings...it would just edit what you have...

http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

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Elizabeth M. Miller
Getting You the Attention You Deserve!
www.123marketing.com (http://www.123marketing.com)

[Justin]

Sounds like Spam to me (my appologies to the people at Hormel).

[Deb]

If I remember correctly, the people at Hormel took the issue of "spam" to court... it came out like this...

All caps -- SPAM = the food product

Not all caps -- Spam - spam - SpAm = the unsolicted email.

If you use the term SPAM when you are talking about spam then you could wind up with a letter from the Hormel Lawyers http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

And that's all the legal advice I'm giving out for a while hehe

Deb

[Justin]

Doesn't the "Flow of traffic" law apply here? For example:

STOP SPAMMING MY EMAIL BOX!!!

If you didn't put "spam" in all caps, it would disrupt the flow of anger. Example:

STOP spamMING MY EMAIL BOX!!!

just doesn't work. I suppose that you could include a disclaimer, explaining the use of the word in question, like:
DEAR SUPER-DISCOUNT FOODS:

STOP SPAMMING MY EMAIL BOX (references to the word "SPAM" are intended to imply an unsolicted electronic mail message. Any similarities to food products are strictly coincidental, and unintentional), OR I WILL SUE YOU FOR SPAMMING (see above disclaimer)! I HAVE ALREADY READ ABOUT YOUR SPECIALS ON SPAM (this is a reference to the food product by the name of "SPAM", manufactured by Hormel Foods, Inc.) AT DISCOUNT PRICES, AND I AM NOT INTERESTED!!!

So you can see that the above works much nicer. The flow of traffic is still maintained, and the references to the word "SPAM" and the word "spam" are clearly defined.

Of course this is a little awkward as well. It is possible that one, while reading the embeded disclaimer, might become confused, and lose track of the anger being expressed therein. There is another way, demonstrated below:
Definitions:
The word "SPAM", as used in this document, will refer to unsolicited electronic mail messages, except when followed with an astrisk, where it will be defined as the food product with unknown contents manufactured by Hormel Foods, Inc.
This End User Definitions Statement applies for the duration of this document, and any accompanying documentation herein.

DEAR SUPER-DISCOUNT FOODS:

STOP SPAMMING MY EMAIL BOX, OR I WILL SUE YOU FOR SPAMMING!!! I HAVE ALREADY READ ABOUT YOUR SPECIALS ON SPAM* AT DISCOUNT PRICES, AND I AM NOT INTERESTED!!!

As you can see, the end user is clearly made aware your intent of the word "SPAM" in the different contexts, and the flow of traffic is unaffected. It is, in fact, emphasised by the fact that a calm legal statement is made just prior to the angry statement.

I have consulted my attorney on this matter, and he assures me that this will prevent a lawsuit from Hormel. He also said that he will be drawing up a standardized disclaimer that may be used or reprinted without prior permission into any letter needing such declarations. He will start on it as soon as he is released from his contract with Microsoft.

Justin http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif
Bored to death.

[Deb]

heheh well what I wonder is...

when you receive the said "spam" message and it begins with...

THIS IS NOT SPAM.....

If you can agree that it certainly is not SPAM and the legal codes they offer certainly do not exist therefore informing the sender that though the email is not SPAM it IS spam and that in itself you find offensive and illegal?

hmmmm loopholes loopholes loopholes....

Deb
(not bored just procrastanating (sp?))

[Justin]

Next time I get a letter like that, I'm going to write them back and say:

To whom it may concern:

I am fully aware that your email messages that have been sent to me without permission are not, in fact, SPAM. I must tell you, my intelligence level is great enough for me to have figured that one out all by myself.

Whenever I receive unsolicited email messages, I usually print them out, put them between slices of whole wheat bread, add a little mustard, and try them out. If it does in fact taste like SPAM, then I know it was. However, if it does not, then I usually draw the conclusion that it was not SPAM.

Another good way to tell whether or not the message in question was SPAM, if the first test was inconclusive, is to view the message source. If it contains things like "processed pork products, sodium glutamate, water, BHT (added for freshness)", and things like that, then it most likely is SPAM. Otherwise, it usually is not.

Also note that email that is not SPAM usually does not have a Recomended Daily Allowances chart, either.

So please do not patronize me by informing me that the unsolicited spam messages are not SPAM, for I have many ways to find out for myself.

Sincerely yours, SmartAss Nelson
That's what I'm going to do, only I will probably have to buy a can to get the actual ingredients.

I wonder what they'd say? My yahoo address is filled with 5 - 10 emails from Biz-wiz, a stupid search engine that you should avoid at all costs.

They charge you to be anywhere in the first 5 pages of search results, and they spam the hell out of your email. I sent them a letter with a lot of 4 letter words, and they still send me tons of spam.

So I might have to have a little fun with them...

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Justin, author of "1001 fun things to do with SPAM when you're bored..."
www.vdj.net/ (http://www.vdj.net/)
SPAM@vdj.net

I keep spelling QUOTE like QOUTE http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Justin (edited 01-14-99).]