Mahalo just started a spamming war

by Patrick Altoft on August 15, 2007

Human powered search engine Mahalo is running a contest amongst its editors to see which can refer the most new Mahalo Follow toolbar users.
Prizes include a 20-inch 2.0GHz iMac, iPhone and iPods.

Mahalo

The problem is that everybody will probably spam their referral link all over the web.

In fact, its started already with Scottr submitting to Digg. Lets hope Scott learns a bit more about marketing before his final exams.

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.

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Jason 15 Aug 2007 at 1:46 am

No spamming so far, and we say in the rules if you do ANY kind of spamming you get kicked out.

So, I don’t think we will have a problem.

best j

Sucker 15 Aug 2007 at 1:37 pm

“The problem is that everybody will probably spam their referral link all over the web.”

That could be said for any contest or affiliate program…

Funny SMS 04 Nov 2007 at 7:48 am

Altough you have figured it out as a spmming war but search engines cannot trace it. It’s really nice way to get some backlinks, I would be looking to have something similar for myself.

Pakistan Property 12 Apr 2009 at 6:17 am

One thing is for sure that it will increase the awareness and will narrow down the spammers.

Birthday Sms 06 May 2009 at 9:24 am

absolutely right, we have not a problem jason

funny sms 09 Nov 2009 at 6:29 am

jason have no reply :)

Holi Messages 22 Feb 2010 at 12:43 pm

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