Good .uk get (some) typeins too

Edwin · Jun 18, 2014

Rivmedia said:
I believe its the .co.uk which is the one which is flagged but the notice comes up on the .uk .

Both have been blacklisted :

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/maps.co.uk
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/maps.uk

Site advisor listing :

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/maps.co.uk

SiteAdvisor is wrong. There's a single page of HTML with nothing "weird" on it. The other 7 scanners have passed it as clean. See http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/maps.co.uk#blacklist-status

More importantly, SiteAdvisor has proven to be a junk tool on countless occasions. There have been so many issues with it that complaints have even filtered into the Wiki article about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteadvisor

Adam H · Jun 18, 2014

That maybe the case but i thought id let you know because if your blacklisted in one of them , the others may follow suit which in turn will kill your traffic. Best to submit a removal request before that happens eh ?

Edwin · Jun 18, 2014

Rivmedia said:
That maybe the case but i thought id let you know because if your blacklisted in one of them , the others may follow suit which in turn will kill your traffic. Best to submit a removal request before that happens eh ?

SiteAdvisor are (in)famous for ignoring removal requests.

diablo · Jun 18, 2014

SiteAdvisor is a complete joke - has been for years now.

Edwin · Jun 18, 2014

acornAuctions.co.uk is flagged by SiteAdvisor btw...

Edwin · Jun 29, 2014

Just a quick follow up...

Maps(dot)uk has averaged 27 typeins a day since I switched it on, and aside from a small spike around the time this thread was last active, there's no evidence that the traffic is as a result of this thread... as you can see for yourself with this daily traffic breakdown:

16/06/2014 22
17/06/2014 31
18/06/2014 53
19/06/2014 41
20/06/2014 26
21/06/2014 22
22/06/2014 17
23/06/2014 33
24/06/2014 29
25/06/2014 27
26/06/2014 28
27/06/2014 24
28/06/2014 36

Similar picture (on a smaller scale) for Map(dot)uk:

16/06/2014 10
17/06/2014 24
18/06/2014 18
19/06/2014 17
20/06/2014 14
21/06/2014 8
22/06/2014 19
23/06/2014 25
24/06/2014 19
25/06/2014 15
26/06/2014 6
27/06/2014 15
28/06/2014 10

Every one of my geo domains that I picked up in .uk has now had some typein traffic, including several that I didn't mention anywhere at all.

Retired_Member38 · Jun 29, 2014

Skinner said:
I think many people are underestimating, how many non-uk people will assume .es, .de, .fr and .uk not realising there is even a .co mixed in there, this has to account for many type ins ?

Yup, and depending what you're selling or doing traffic from foreign countries could be absolutely worthless to you.

At this point in the game I suspect the traffic will be coming from UK, but equally worthless - domainers and site builders typing in random generic.uk to see whats on them if anything...