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by Volker Weber

Last week I told you about a new site for Mac users. It is sponsored by O2 and wants to cover everything around Macs and mobile communications. Since you clicked through, vowe.net won last week's competition with the highest number of referrers. There were a number of of prices to draw from and I selected a Nokia N70 smartphone with Symbian Series 60. More stuff to write about soon.

No, this is no bait to click again. You can only win once.

Interesting observation: Tightly knit communities have a much bigger impact than weblogs. The operator of one such community asked his members to click on a link to mobile-macs and raked in hundreds and hundreds of visits in the first few hours. An order of magnitude more traffic than I can generate even when placing an ad on all pages of vowe.net (adverts on thousands of pages draw more than a single blog post). This has immediately sparked a click fraud discussion on mobile-macs since this drawing power is quite impressive. I took a closer look at the community yesterday and found that one discussion thread there created more than 15,000 page impressions in a few hours. Very, very impressive.

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Ummm, am I qualified to get - at least - the '#' key of that phone? I clicked two or three times to get from here to there... :-)

OK, I will let you push it two or three times. :-)

...und? Machen die Leute auf der Seite denn endlich auch mal was, außer Referrer zählen?

Moritz, ich hab's schon ein paar mal angemahnt. Das war die Antwort.

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