While you are all busy thinking about boosting searches for Webwise - don't forget to put in a
webwise link to
http://www.phonecallsuk.co.uk/bt-webwise.html. Still doing well at #5 for 'BT Webwise' - so, if you already have a link, please leave it as it is to help keep that position. Let me know if there are any other anti-webwise sites written that are not yet linked to.
Logs are showing a lot of hits from "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" without a referrer and no request for non html content on the page - any ideas who it could be? IP address changes although sometimes 3 or 4 requests (GET and HEAD)
It is really hard to get a boost for positions on one word searches when there are a few high PR domain names containing that word within their URLs.
The majority of people searching about BT Webwise are unlikely to look beyond the links provided on the pop-up page that shows that they are already infected by the browser hijack.
If anyone gets to see the Webwise welcome page: please take a screen dump as that image is what needs to get out into the popular press with a warning about the browser hijack.
BTW - has anyone written a site that outlines the effect of webwise/phorm/oix on websites that are also e-commerce sites, excluding the brands that will be advertising through their ad networks on the OIX? - even if only mom & pop sites that are hosting a few affiliate ads to help pay for the hosting and the summer holidays.
If not, I want to do so over the next few days as a reference point for some promotions I am planing.