what are???

[neilinov]

Yahoo Bot and Google Bot?? I had emails come in from them this morning from one of the websites that I own and now have hundreds of request from other companies to link my website to theirs through a relevant link exchange? Are these related or just a coincidence that they came in today? The companies that submitted request appear to be real companies that do the same thing that we do, just in different parts of the country. Can anyone explain to me what these companies want before I call them back tomorrow?

Anyone?? Help?

Thanks

[gradywhite273]

get wabo and nimrod on it , they should know.

[Jer]

Yahoo Bot and Google Bot are the systems that visit your site every few hours/days/weeks to check whats new. These bots save the pages of your site so Google and Yahoo know what kind of content you have ... then they use that info to generate the search results

[Jer]

Dozens or hundreds of emails in the same day with requests are very odd. Similar wording of totally different?

[Hatterized]

...well since i am puter challenged..i say you climb the sub lookout towers along the Del. beaches and dont shoot until you see the white of their eyes....

fight crime....shoot first....

[neilinov]

Dozens or hundreds of emails in the same day with requests are very odd. Similar wording of totally different?

They were similar wording, but just a little different. They were generally from new home companies all around the country that appear to be legitimate businesses. Also they came in off of the contact forms. All the email return addresses were corporate brand emails, not .gmail or whatever. But they all had the same type of message. Don't know if this is some new marketing scheme or just a new scam. I had 61 come in today that were the same request. They came in off of our contact form and looked generally like this:

We do not compete in the states you build in. ******** only builds in
Florida, Texas, and North Carolina. In lieu of the current market conditions,
we both might benefit from a website linking relationship an increase our
organic search positions for the demographic regions we are focusing on. Please
contact me if you are interested in a link exchange.


I blanked out the company name, but there were all generally the same wording. They all also came in after the google bot and yahoo bot emails came in off of the contact form.
This is what the yahoo bot contacts looked like
Name: YahooBot
Address: flaNgmtXZurNJpX
City: CYLNsYIubzInSnJrta
State: WYNekGjlfBEmkcYs
Zip: lLpiMhLNUUSpKBI
Phone: sDMxJTUxAJLAd
Email: yah13oaaa@gmail.com
Contact: Phone
Interest: Remodel
S1: Nice site, thanks for information!
B1: Submit

Message sent successfully.

[Jer]

The "Google Bot" and "Yahoo Bot" emails you received are spams. Spammers use software to fill forms all around the web, and they hope the forms will publish their links somewhere.