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I doubt it was a spam. World of Tanks is owned by a quite big company. There are TV adverts for this game running in my country - they would not engage in such
by fear91 14y ago
I doubt it was a spam. World of Tanks is owned by a quite big company. There are TV adverts for this game running in my country - they would not engage in such activities unless they really want to burn their reputation.
As for SEO benefits - I doubt that it would positively affect their ranking even if they were not widely known.
The only way that e-mails can be used for SEO (besides of buying links) is using the fact that Google is spying on the links you are sending. Every URL being sent through GMAIL is being crawled by Googlebot. This can be used to index backlinks.
In this case, there was no links inside.
- rfergie 14y ago>Every URL being sent through GMAIL is being crawled by Googlebot This is demonstrably false. Email a gmail address with a URL that only you know about. Then observe your server logs - you will not see GoogleBot at this URL
- fear91 14y agoI've done this before and I know this works. Tested on many thousands of URLs.
- Natsu 14y agoI thought this was pretty interesting so I just tested this by setting up a Perl script that pretends to be a web server and having it printing out the IPs of anyone who accesses it while feeding them a 403 page. After emailing myself a link to that server on Gmail, referencing a document that doesn't exist, I waited for over six hours. No hits were recorded from any source and I am unable to duplicate your results.