How not to ask for links

[Keith]

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anyone else had a similar email (portions omited to protect the guilty)

Hello,

My name is Susan, I run a group of gaming review sites.
I recently ran across your site ....................
with google page rank of 4 and found it to be suitable to exchange links with our sites.

As you are well aware, reciprocal linking will benefit both of us by raising our search ranking within and generating more traffic to both of our sites. We work around the clock to increase our traffic and we believe that exchanging links with you will enable both of us to increase our search rank popularity.

I would like to offer you the opportunity of linking with our 8 highly ranked sites.
You can view them here:

If indeed you are interested in exchanging links with us, you are welcome to add your links to our 8 highly ranked sites. You can do this by filling up only one form at ........................
Your link will be approved and added to our links pages within 48 hours after we get your reply. Then an email will be sent to you notifying the location of your link.

In return, please add all my links to your sites as follows (up to 40 external links per page):
To make sure we both benefit from this exchange, do your best to place them on your front page or on another page with similar pr.


Please let me know if you choose to do so.

Best Regards,

Peter

spot the gender switch??

[scifind]

I'm a web master, and I was just searching Google for chills flash hot. I found your
domain, www.scifind.co.uk ranked 13, which is pretty cool.

Subject: www.scifind.co.uk ranked # 13 in Google for chills flash hot

My site is all about Health - Beauty, too . Maybe we should link up? I wouldn't be
stealing any of your sales, because all I do is write informational articles...not
selling anything on my site at all. And most of my visitors write back to say that
they love the fact that I only write good, quality info. As a matter of fact, I've
got a pretty loyal following of people that come back over and over again (they use
the site as a reference), so if you link to me, you should get some pretty good
traffic from it -- which is always nice.

Anyway, let me know if you'd like to swap links. I've already linked to you, and
will keep it up there for a few days until I hear back. Hope to hear from you soon!


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Automated i think
Chills Flash Hot!!! WTF

[DutchRomano]

I do have a Google PR6 site ( in the mobile phones related field) and am looking for link partners.

How do I ask / find good linkpartners ?

C u

DutchRomano

[Bosh123]

I got exactly the same email with a different keyword scifind.

I think it is a template and when i clicked on the links url, there was nothing there.

[Darren]

LOL - I've also received multiple copies of both those emails.........

[Wardy]

Had them here too, will look out for a gender switch on mine next time I get it

Cheers
Wardy

[smn2]

How <b>not</b> to ask for links

Answer: using an automated solution

[999gi]

My rules of what to do are:
- if you're asking for a link then put your link to them up first and tell them where the link is
- if they have a submit your url form then use it
- show some knowledge of their site e.g. I think my visitors would like this feature of your site, your visitors would like this feature of mine.
- keep it short - they dont need a lecture on PR
- dont even think about asking for a link until you have a links page with positive PR
- make it easy for them to add the link by supplying something that they can copy/paste from the email which is consistent with the way they present their other links.

[MarkyB]

Yeah, had several copies of these e-mails too

cheers,
Mark.

[smn2]

Those are good tactics to follow 999gi - the more
human and personal the contact, the much more
likely the chance of getting a link back.

U may even strike up an online friendship, as it were!

Steve