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Original poster

Hello MNHQ - a question about automatic links please?

288 replies

rhondajean · 02/10/2012 22:52

Seems that quite a few of us are now having names of online shops come up as automatic links.

Eg(and fingers crossed these work!

Argos
Next
Marks and spencers
Wilkes
Toys r us

Can you confirm if this is a new addition to MN or are we all infected with something nasty?

Thankoo! Grin

OP posts:
Original poster
rhondajean · 02/10/2012 22:52

Argos worked!

OP posts:
BertieBotts · 02/10/2012 22:53

Wow that's weird!

I wonder if the shops are paying for it? It seems like a useful feature for them...

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:01
Hmm

So now it will look as though posters are linking to all these White companies?

tribpot · 02/10/2012 23:04

I remember when The Motley Fool tried this context-based advertising.

It was not popular.

To put it mildly.

DameFanny · 02/10/2012 23:04

How very oddbins

DameFanny · 02/10/2012 23:04

Ha ha!

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:05

Haha- DameFanny- you must have typed that yourself, surely... don't MN link with Naked wines? (and aren't Oddbins out of business??)

BertieBotts · 02/10/2012 23:05

Um

I've just seen it happen on a poster mentioning an iPhone, it linked to an ebay site Hmm

When you mouseover it says "Shopping link added by skimlinks"

Please don't end up doing this on every keyword, MN, it looks awful!

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:06

Woah! Maybe not....

DameFanny · 02/10/2012 23:06

So what else is contextually appropriate for MN?

gordons or Hendricks?

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:07

Great Bertie... because there aren't any unscrupulous types that 'sell' i phones on ebay (and then don't deliver) oh, no.

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:07

Moet et Chandon?

DameFanny · 02/10/2012 23:07

Mothercare

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:07

Is this why MN is so slooooooooow? Hmm

BertieBotts · 02/10/2012 23:08

I don't like it! I feel like someone's been inside my post, messing with it! I feel all dirty!

WHAT and now it's gone? I swear the word "ebay" in my post was a link a second ago, and now it isn't!

DameFanny · 02/10/2012 23:08

This is random

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:08

CheapSmells

MirandaWest · 02/10/2012 23:08

I'm not seeing any links Confused

BertieBotts · 02/10/2012 23:08

...and now it is? And iPhone too?

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:08

Bertie- the link is still there on my screen Confused

SmokyClav · 02/10/2012 23:09

but i phone no longer links!

Original poster
rhondajean · 02/10/2012 23:11

Shall I report my post see if it makes MNHQ hurry along to tell us what's happening?

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BertieBotts · 02/10/2012 23:12

It's coming and going on mine, it's most odd.

Or at least, I posted the first one and when I posted and it reloaded the thread, just ebay was a link.

Then I posted about how I didn't like it, and while I was doing this, I noticed that ebay was no longer a link.

Posted that and the thread reloaded after posting, now iPhone and ebay are both links. It's like it disabled the one for a second while adding the other.

AGoldenOrange · 02/10/2012 23:12

I'm not seeing any links in the thread

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 02/10/2012 23:13

If it is a skimlinks thing I guess mn are trying to drum up some extra revenue. Can we really complain?