Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: winner Softonic Awards 2009

[Rob]

Hi Curt,

The softonic website looks a bit like a softpedia clone, one of these
sites that just out to 'catch' traffic, specially search engine traffic.
They would require some nice incoming links from older high ranked pages
to boost their 'reputation' with search engines fast.  The softpedia
site almost comes up in searches on any type of software. The traffic
they 'catch' lets put it like that, they will sell that traffic to other
sites or are members of revshare programs of certain software package
which they will promote more then others on their site.

Hope of course for the best, that it is legit, but i strongly doubt it.
But i strongly dislike these sites, they pollute search engine indexes.

Kind Regards
EViLSLuT
New enthusiastic pilot :)


On 01/27/2010 04:32 PM, Curtis Olson wrote:
> Does anyone here know anything about softonics?  At first glance it
> appears to me to be a link exchange ploy ... by giving out "awards" we
> post the banner on our page with a link back to their site ... drives
> traffic to them.  Or maybe this is a prestigious award and I'm just
> behind on what's what and who's who these days in the internet world.
>
> Well, anyway we won!  Woo hoo ... we are now in the running for a
> "free car", but the way those sorts of "prizes" are taxed around here,
> something like that is usually a lot more trouble than it's worth.
>  But sounds good on the face of it, maybe I should post their banner
> and link so we get more votes for the free car? :-)
>
> Curt.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Mareike Lang* <mareike.l...@softonic.com
> <mailto:mareike.l...@softonic.com>>
> Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:03 AM
> Subject: winner Softonic Awards 2009
> To: curt0...@flightgear.org <mailto:curt0...@flightgear.org>
>
>
> <http://en.softonic.com/awards2009>
>
> Hi there,
>
>  
>
> **We have the pleasure to inform you that your program FlightGear has
> been elected as the winner in the category “Best Free Game” of the
> ****Softonic Awards 2009 <http://www.softonic.com/awards2009>****, a
> prize that aims to acknowledge the best software applications of the
> year.**
>
>  
>
>  
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> From October 6th, 2009 until November 30th, 2009 all Softonic users
> were able to vote for their favourite candidate and enter a draw to
> win a fantastic car.
>
>  
>
>       
>
> Please find the Softonic Awards winner badge attached to this email,
> and feel free to use them on your website!
>
> <a title="Softonic Awards 2009 - Winner"
> href="http://en.softonic.com/awards2009";><img
> src="http://static.sftcdn.net/en/images/promos/awards09/badges/winner_7_badge.png";
> alt="Softonic Awards 2009 - Winner" border="0"/>
> </a>
>
>       
>
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> Copyright SOFTONIC INTERNATIONAL S.L. © 2009 - All rights reserved
>
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