Ladies and Gents, I have a client that is troubled by their website being "Blacklisted" by http://www.surbl.org/ ... when attempting to create ( Bit.Ly ) links for use on twitter and facebook.
As a reminder ... "SURBLs are lists of web sites that have appeared in unsolicited messages. Unlike most lists, SURBLs are not lists of message senders." What happens is the Bit.Ly links bring up a nasty page ... "Warning - this site has been flagged and may contain unsolicited content. The content of this web page appears to contain spam, or links to unsolicited or undesired sites." It seems that somehow my client is being penalized by Bit.Ly through their use of SURBL to "vet" their links ... And the response from the Bit.Ly guy was .... "the way that url was formatted, I wouldn't doubt it is re-blocked. Looks like some sort of phishing/virus url to me. With the cmd call and curl, etc." Basically, my client is being Blacklisted ... for the style of their URL's ... It's a complicated high volume webisite, but like many websites the command structure is ... Baroque. Question: Is he right? Are ugly URL's grounds for being banned from a certain, trustworthiness ... to be fair, the full reason SURBL bans domains is that they believe these domains have been seen in a certain threshold of spam ... as defined by them. So, without giving away my client ... Here is their URL ... without the actual domain ... it's only a demo !! http://NotaRealDomain.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=907073&cmp=7&cxid=0-0&fb=true&rwrd=1%20John%20Some&curl=www.FitForNothing.com&deno=1 Is that so ugly? Are clean URLs required today ... for high volume websites? Thanks in Advance ... All Mighty and Powerful web405 .... Joet
