Avoid using tracking links!

I learned this lesson the hard way.

As a submitter:

If you submit a link that contains tracking information, it will more than likely be denied. Why? The editor will assume that you are a site affiliate, and you have just submitted an affiliate link in order to make money from web searches.

As an editor:

If you accept links with tracking information (or add them yourself), you may be booted as a editor if your category gets reviewed. The reviewing meta-editor will assume that you are involved as an affiliate, remove sites with tracking info (not edit the info out... they will delete the site) and remove you as an editor. Once removed, you have no recourse to get reinstated. All decisions are final.

The other day, I noticed that some sites were missing from my category, and I checked my editing logs to see that a meta-editor "cleaned" my category. She removed anything with tracking info. I wrote her asking if tracking info using a source tag was okay (i.e. www.mywebsite.com?source=dmoz) and I never heard back. Today my editor login was removed without any response or warning.

I can easily become an editor again, (see my post in this category), but it is sort of a setback, and I'd hate to see someone else make this mistake.

I use tracking links for everything, but for DMOZ.... no more!

Wow, that sucks.... Because checking for refering logs is really annoying...

-Josh

grrrrrrr......

thanks so much for the warning!

the company we use for tracking suggested we do this and it's been great for tracking Google Ads words and Froogle hits...... but not worth the risk of not getting into the DamnMightyOrneryZone -which apparently will happen for one of my clients when hell freezes over -hey it has been snowing in some odd places lately, think I'll go check