I Am So Honoured….
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The Oakleaf Circle website has won an award! Here is the text of the email (all identifying stuff blocked out so that it doesn’t show up in the search engines).
Hello!
This is X, Junior Editor for XXXXXXX.com, the internet’s authority hub for spiritual related web sites. Welcome, and congratulations on such a wonderful site =).
As part of my new job here at XXXXXXXXXXX, I spend my time visiting sites and giving awards to those that deserve it.
So congratulations for having a VERY relevant, on-topic site, and thank you for making the internet a better place! 🙂
This is no small matter. This directory, with over 100,000 links, has
strict guidelines and your site has earned this exclusive, high-end
distinction. You may display this award anywhere on your web site, either with or without a link to us. You can download the award, or let our server host it, either way is fine, it’s your award, you earned it. Congratulations!
If your site was already given an award in 2004, and you have not displayed it, please do. It is not required (of course).
Your site is listed here:
http://www.XXXXXXXX.com/
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YOUR AWARD:
(HTML code for inserting the award logo on webpage)
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With hopes of love, light, music and happiness, thank you for your time!
BTW Feel free to write us and suggest a site for the Top Spiritual Site award, I will be delighted to visit it and review it. I love visiting sites like yours! 😉
See Ya!
XXXXX XXXXX
XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX Junior Editor
http://www.XXXXXX.com
Doing a quick google, I find that no less than 11 other sites have been judged by this person to be the Leading Spiritual Site of 2004. Wow – I can hardly wait to buy my outfit for the award ceremony!
But seriously, I won’t display this crummy “award” on the site – a standard ploy to get the search engines (Google etc) to list your site is to get your link on as many other sites as possible. One way of doing this is to mass-email site-owners that they’ve been given some fake “Top Site” award; if a site-owner is naive enough, they’ll want to proudly display this – along with the precious link, of course.
Gah. The Oakleaf Circle site has been going for three or four years now – I’m surprised it’s taken this long to “earn” such an award!