Link was approved in Online Piano Guide

[David Ilvedson]

That's my thinking also...if piano hadn't been in the name I would have thought it was spam...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "paul bruesch" <paul at bruesch.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 9/3/2008 7:47:53 AM
Subject: Re: Link was approved in Online Piano Guide


>I'm thinking that they exist solely for the click-thru profits from Google
>Ads.
>If a particular (piano tech's) site has many links to it, Google and other
>search engines rate it more favorably than one that has few or no links to
>it. Ergo, the piano tech who is listed on this site and other similar sites
>will potentially see some benefit. However, the big winner by far is (in
>this case) onlinepianoguide.com, because they ask for a link TO them from
>YOUR site, so they wind up (they hope) with hundreds of links to them, thus
>attracting piano owners to the Google Ads, thus making some cash.

>When I get an unsolicited email stating I've been "approved" for something I
>did not "apply" for, I choose to ignore it. I received an email a couple
>days ago "from" a friend asking me to sign up on reunion.com so we could
>stay in touch. I asked her what was up with that and how will it improve our
>communications. She said reunion.com automatically sent it to everyone in
>her address book (including her own work email address!) when she was trying
>to connect only to a couple long lost family members. Sleazy. Makes me
>wonder how much garbage-ware they would have tried to install on my
>computer.

>Paul Bruesch
>Stillwater, MN

>On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Scott Jackson 
><ScottWayneJackson at hotmail.com
>> wrote:

>> David,
>> onlinepianoguide.com has been registered by "Domains by Proxy, Inc." which
>> is a company set up with the sole intention of hiding the identity of the
>> web-master. So you have to wonder why they don't wish to be known.
>> http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=onlinepianoguide&tld=com
>>
>> >From the look of the site, it has been set up to host as many
>> advertisements
>> as possible. Every time that someone clicks on a Google Ad, they collect a
>> cent or two.
>>
>> They may have simply collected all the addresses from the PTG. I see that
>> yours shows up in a search like the following:
>>
>> 
>http://ptg.org/findATechnician-showRPT.php?Last=&zip=&Sort=Last&Phone=&City
>=
>> 
>&State=&Country=&B1=Search<http://ptg.org/findATechnician-showRPT.php?Last
>=&zip=&Sort=Last&Phone=&City=&State=&Country=&B1=Search>
>>
>> Scott Jackson
>> Mt Keira, NSW, Australia.
>>
>>