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If you visit the Youtube link posted on the Ap. List blog post (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qY9dAhsWZg&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?
by andrewfelix 14y ago
If you visit the Youtube link posted on the Ap. List blog post (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qY9dAhsWZg&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qY9dAhsWZg&feature=playe...) You'll notice a lot of posts saying they were sent by Ty Moss, Kenny Powers etc. I'm assuming these were sponsored plugs and might have effected the outcome(?). But you'll also notice in the youtube description a link to this page: http://www.aTrueUnderdog.com http://www.aTrueUnderdog.com which in turn points to this page > http://www.organizer.org/webby9.htm http://www.organizer.org/webby9.htm which in turn points to the webby ballot. WTF is going on there and who is http://www.organizer.org http://www.organizer.org?
EDIT: Apparently the domain belongs to Denis Grosz (http://grosz.com/about http://grosz.com/about) who is on the Ap. List team...http://blog.apartmentlist.com/about/ http://blog.apartmentlist.com/about/
EDIT #2: I just had a thought...Grosz may be attempting to increase clicks through the organizer url to make it appear more valuable.
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- ricardobeat 14y agoWell noted, though it doesn't seem malicious unless the url http://pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/46 http://pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/46 casts a vote directly (can't check since it's offline).
- andrewfelix 14y agoNo that link wouldn't have voted directly. It would have been the index link for that particular award category. I agree it doesn't appear malicious, just odd.
- elsewhen 14y agoall there is on that organizer.org redirect page is google analytics - it appears that this was used to track clicks. looks benign.
- andrewfelix 14y agoYep. Looks like the number at the end of the URL denotes where the user is being tracked from. There are several links that all function the same way: organizer.org/webby8.htm, organizer.org/webby2.htm, organizer.org/webby3.htm, organizer.org/webby4.htm, organizer.org/webby5.htm, organizer.org/webby6.htm etc
- ericd 14y agoAh yeah, I guess this would handle tracking of the original source if the link happened to spread.
- ericd 14y agoMaybe the redirect is meant to launder the traffic and make the real source impossible to track? Organizer.org seems to be parked with made-for-google content relating to different types of "organizers". It's also possible that he was trying to pump up that domain's Google juice a bit by hopefully getting links from that made to be viral video, or that it was simply the domain he had easiest access to for putting up a redirect for traffic tracking.