Hosted email newsletters
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Hi! I just checked the WMT account for one of my clients, and I noticed their web dev's site has 2.6k links pointing to it. These seem to be from their hosted HTML newsletters, such as http://imail.illusionmedia.co.uk/t/r-l-diurkky-dtakrkki-b/. They redirect to the the main site, but are used for tracking.
The client recently got an unnatural link warning, even though their profile looks OK to me. Is there a chance that these links could have anything to do with it?
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It's definitely possible. Why are they hosting their newsletters on a 3rd party site, anyway?
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