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The recently banned us from participating in their site and forum (they think we can't access their forum lol, what fools) and gave some half assed excuse about how we were doing things they didnt approve of where in fact they were probably just bored and looking for something to do lol, or maybe they were scared of our growing competition.
Anyway they claimed that we copied urls from over a dozen of their participants and added them to our site without those participants linking back to us.
Well all i have to say about that one is, i admit it, they were 100% correct with that statement, well 99% correct.
See we gathered some urls some of which were listed on their site and some which were not and we proceeded to add them to our system, we emailed the owner of each site and asked them if they would like to participate, told them we had already saved them the time of filling in their info and all they had to do was to place a link on their site of which we provided.
We hoped that this method of promoting our site to others some of which were already interested in participating in such seo experiments, would help speed up the increase of our backlinks and benefit every site in our system by improving our visitors and pagerank faster.
Now if they have a problem with that then so be it but my intentions were to better our site for the good of all participants involved.
I did mention in emails to site owners that if they did not wish to participate or if they did not link back to us we would remove their listing in the coming weeks, giving them pleanty of time to decide and add our link or not.
Anyway the actual comments from lee the guy running pagerank10.co.uk can be read below
I banned him not just from the forum but from the entire site, it was nothing to do with breaking any posting rules, it was because I don't like the way he is running his website.
This normally wouldn't concern me but what he was doing annoyed me and was the final straw after quite a few annoying things he had done previously.
Anyway ill get to the point :-), the final thing which got him banned was he copied about 12 pages of our participants and manually added them to his database to look like his site was doing well, when infact none of these participants (which all appeared in 1 day) did not participate and so obviously did not link back to his site.
Although this is not really a typical banning punishment nor does it hurt anyone, but we don't want to be assosiated with a website (copied from ours) which is not run 100% legitimately, and its much easier to get rid of him than to keep checking on his activities.
Our website is 100% genuine and so will not advertise (free or paid) any website who I think may not be 100% genuine.
Lee