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ChangingLINKS has two primary goals:1. To exchange links with thousands of web pages.2. To offer cool, weird, funny, & interesting content. How we achieve those goals:Viewers (like you) suggest links using our form. Next, Changebot (our robot) reviews the link and sends an email to the site owner. The email that is sent is very important because it contains login information that tells the site owner how to benefit from our system. From there, the site owner logs in and begins registering pages. Site owners that log in (and read the F.requently A.sked Q.uestions page) build a strong partnership with ChangingLINKS. Each time a site owner registers a page, it makes ChangingLINKS stronger and provides more content for our viewers.Want proof of the truth?You can go to MarketLeap and compare our link popularity to other websites (including yours). There you will see that we take link exchanges very seriously. You can also go to the major search engines and enter various keywords from our front page. You will see that we have numerous high rankings in most of the major search engines. We even come up in the top 5 for various single words. The high rankings demonstrate that our site is optimized and that we have strong link popularity.A reason ChangingLINKS does not spam:Spam can overwhelm the email box a member of ChangingLINKS. When that happens, the member may stop using the email address and lose contact with us. We send occassional emails (less than one per week) to update the member about their account as well as login information. Members that read their update emails (and log in occassionally) get more benefit from our site, and also benefit our site much more than members who donīt. Spam email hurts ChangingLINKS.How spam works:Spam is unsolicited email typically designed to make a profit. In order to make a profit, the person sending the spam needs to send millions of emails to generate sales. Other types of spam are designed to harm email filters or computer systems. Spammers use various ways to collect email addresses. One way of the ways spammers collect addresses is by using robots to surf the web and collect them from websites. Sometimes, the robots simply collect domain names and then the spammer sends email to different usernames for that domain (i.e. webmaster@yourdomain.com, links@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com). The moment you post your e-mail address on a web page, a USENET newsgroup, or an IRC chat room, you are opening yourself up to e-mail harvesting robots ("spambots") which automatically and continuously scour the 'net for e-mail addresses to add to spam mailing lists. Lovely, huh? Spambots do not read HTML pages as they are rendered by a browser but read (or harvest) text that actually is the HTML (the source code).Large web sites CAN help spammers find your email address.Because we have strong link popularity, most Internet-based robots surf our site daily. In fact, there have been days in the past where ChangingLINKS serves more bandwidth to the robots than to viewers. Unless you protect your email address, you probably will get more spam.IMPORTANT: Do not blame our site for the spam - the same thing happens when your site is indexed by a major search engine, or "linked to" by any popular site. Anything that you do to promote your web site can increase the amount of spam you get. Does that mean you shouldnīt promote your site? No, it just means that you should protect your email address. How to protect your email address:1. Never publish your email address online.Don't put it on your web site, your online resume, or on a contact page. Use a form that does not include your email address. Another option, although not as good as a form, is to create an image of your email address and post that to your web pages instead of the address. Email spiders usually cannot read images. For those people who convert their email into "john at foo dot com", I contend that it is trivial for the mail address spiders to convert and record addresses in this form. 2. Acceptance list You can dedicate an email address that you use only for signing up for memberships. Then, use the filters in your email client to throw away any email that is not specifically from one of the places that you wish to receive email from. 3. Skip online discussion lists or forums if they post your email. If you find a discussion list which does not disguise the addresses, then complain to the site administrator. Tell them that they are helping by serving email addresses to spammers. How to prove ChangingLINKS does not spam:1. Create a random email address like "CLINKSj983n@yourdomain.com"2. Use the email address for your membership at ChangingLINKS ONLY. 3. Forward the random address to the account that you check daily. If you follow those three steps, you will see that ChangingLINKS only sends occasional information about your account. We do NOT sell, share, or spam email addresses. |
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