I really would not worry about this, spreading the word is much more
important. Lets worry about getting some of the anti-spam sites up
high in the listings by promoting them/linking to them from FBO and
club sites. The 1800Skyride scumbag scammers are already rankied in
the top few search terms by Google and others and often list in the
top one and two paid results on Google. You are unlikely to change
this already high ranking. I would be much more worried about being
clear which @##holes you are warning people about. Especially for
public web sites I would provide links to the scammer sites surrounded
by clear warnings that these link to scams but I'd link to the anti-
scam sites first and most clearly. For the scam pages a redirect to a
bounce page warning the next page is a scam is a great thing to do as
well.

And if you are bored you can look on their web site (www.
1800skyride.com) for photos of your glider or photos from your club/
FBO site they have stolen. One of my club's gliders and Drew's Duo
"HGC" are shown there and he is definitly not doing rides for them.

Darryl

On Jun 16, 11:03 am, Jim Little wrote:
The irony here is... by posting to newsgroups with the web addresses
to these scam websites, you are actually INCREASING the chance they
will turn up when someone searches google for "glider ride"! Google
(and other search engines) use a variety of proprietary methods to
determine page relevance. The number of times that website address
appears on OTHER websites is one of the key factors for determining
how "good" that website is. It is kind of like a popularity contest.
So when you post to a newsgroup about scam sites, you do NOT want to
include their address in the typicalhttp://www.google.com/format!
If you must include the website address, it is better to do it
something like this:

www [dot] 1800skyride [dot] com

That way you aren't increasing the likelihood that they will get MORE
search engine hits.