This morning I left my final comment in a fiery debate on another automotive marketing blog. Well, I thought I did. Turns out the owner of the blog, some Brandon Hoffman, didn’t like my last comment (or didn’t understand?), and he refused to publish it. I guess that means someone learned something today. I’m actually proud of myself for resisting insults when they were being thrown at me time and time again. Anyways, here are my remarks that you will never see added to the end of these comments.

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I’m not sure why the pasted output from a 301 checker means much here. My last comment acknowledged that the redirect was a 302.

Besides, I just queried the link myself to discover what kind it was…

First

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:52:52 GMT
Location: http://www.yellowpages.com/sp/yellowpages/dlp.jsp?p=1&searchId=1&displayTile=Y&st=NY&ci=
New+York&peid=24103566&id=108938175&q=plumbers
&purl=http%3A//www.tomtracker.com/redirect.cfm%3FbID%
3D4844%26hID%3D35282&_requestid=421259

Second

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:53:47 GMT
Location: http://www.yellowpages.com/sp/yellowpages/ypout.jsp?outURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomtracker.com%2Fredirect.cfm%3FbID%3D4844%26hID%3D35282&id=108938175&searchId=1&_requestid=422708

Third

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:54:48 GMT
Location: http://www.tomtracker.com/redirect.cfm?bID=4844&hID=35282

Fourth

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:53:44 GMT
Location: http://rotorooter.com/e-scheduling/yp.php

The point I’m trying to make to you is that pagerank isn’t the only benefit that a listing on yellowpages.com can offer, but I guess you’re not interested in hearing that.

I’ll let you have the last word. I’m done here.

Accountability is delicious.