Keyword Map for the Whole Internet? What is this?

[americana]

Hello everyone. Can someone please tell me if this is a legitimate site to be listed on, http://kwmap.net/weapon-detection.html.

I was sent this email:

I checked your website and I would like to link to it. My website is KwMap.net and it represents a network of keywords and concepts as they logically relate to each other, on various topics. Under each keyword I list relevant websites and resources.

I am considering listing your website under keywords such as "weapon detection","image projection" and "sales sheets". Also, whenever visitors come from your site to KwMap.net, a chart containg the top 20 relevant keywords to your website will be added, personalizing the display. You can see this feature right now, as I already have analyzed your website:

http://www.KwMap.net/...


The personalization system works by interpreting the http-referrer field so any plain html link to my website will trigger your specific keyword chart. If you consider KwMap.net to be useful, please reciprocate my link. This is my html link code, provided for your convenience...

I've received 4 or 5 of these now. My company is currently listed under a couple of keywords. It seems a little sketchy... There isn't any information on the company what-so-ever and the email signature was just a name. What do you think?

[bhartzer]

Sure, let them link to you. I wouldn't link back, though.

[jestep]

The good thing that I see about this site, is that by performing a search for a key phrase that your website is targeting, you also get other relavent related searches that you can also optimize for. Otherwise I dont really find it a usefull tool.

[bhartzer]

It can definitely be a useful tool when trying to find related keywords that you might target.

Or, if you're looking to create new content for your website, you can easily see related topics and keyword phrases that you might create content around.

[americana]

He did ask me to link back to him, but I think I'm going to pass on that one. I also see the usefulness in finding other keywords to target, but I think he got those keywords from my site anyway :)

I guess I'm just paranoid that EVERYTHING is a scam (or spam) now, when sometimes it is just unprofessionalism (ie - not putting a signature in email, or sites that don't list their contact information... there is nothing more aggrevating to me than the latter!) Thanks!

[cbp]

kwmap have been emailing webmasters for a while now... I think scam is probably a strong word, but they are borderline, especially as they require a links back.

All my sites did get emailed yesterday by another scam. A site had downloaded the DMOZ rdf dump to form their own directory ... the email told me that they have just added me to "their" directory and would like to keep me listed, but in order to do so, they want a link back and to help defray costs they wanted $5 .. !!!! - there are 4 million+ sites in DMOZ - if these scammer get 1% of them to pay the five bucks, they will get $200 000 !!!

CBP