kasia in a nutshell

Not going to link to the page, I refuse to provide them more traffic.. I hate advertising enough as it is, but I hate it even more when they use *my* resources without my permission to spam me with a message I don't want to see. I've already been spammed with this method before and I hate being duped this way. Get out of my system logs.

From the spam service website:

We are doing referrer marketing: adding your URL as a referrer in the logs of thousands of weblogs. If you are seeing this page, referrer advertising worked with you.

Thankfully, no, read this on Inluminent. Here's hoping nobody is stupid enough to actually pay them money.

You might also see it as a PR tool for bloggers.

Q: How many weblogs can you reach?
A: We are currently reaching 55,250 weblogs, more being added every hour.

The best PR tool for a blogger is to create interesting content that others want to read, not make others visit through deception. This could only turn me off from reading a weblog. In fact, I should start checking my referrer logs closely and keep a list of weblogs that subscribe to this service, just to make sure I don't visit them. In fact everyone should do that.. just to make sure this company makes no money from spamming other peoples system logs.

Q: How mush does it cost?
A: The cost of a referrer broadcast is CAN$ 1500, which converts roughly to US$ 1000. We accept Visa and MasterCard.

Anyone who has to pay money to get others to read his writing probably isn't worth my time anyway.

How low will marketing companies get before something is done about this? Why are advertisers still legally allowed to use peoples own resources to spam them with unwanted marketing messages?