Last week I wrote how pleased I was to receive an award for my blog. One of the top 50 kayaking blogs 2010. Wow.
I mentioned I was puzzled by some omissions. Now I know why.
Some call it a scam. Others don't go quite so far. But it doesn't seem to be a real award.
Douglas Wilcox of SeaKayakPhoto.com (one of the glaring omissions) alerted me to this. I'm hugely grateful, if a little embarrased.
By pasting the 'award' logo onto your website, you create a link to the people giving the award, thus moving them up the rankings of several search engnes. The more 'awards', the more links back.
Perhaps I'm not alone in knowing nothing about this? I saw more than one kayak blog asking for people to nominate their site for next year's awards. Want to be an award winner? Just grab an award badge from this website.
My contact at WideBlueYonder.Net, the internet people who specialise in outdoor blogs, put it like this, "If online schools had emailed you and asked for a link to their site on your blog would you have agreed? Probably not - wrap it up in an award - hey bingo!"
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Mea culpa.
2 Comments Here:
I had the same feeling, but finally posted their 'prize' sticker. Guess it's going to disappear!
Simon, you gave me the perfect idea for the copycats (of my blog) that desperately would like to have their blog more successful.
Will post something soon.
Thank you for the tip.
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