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Link Request Craziness
June 6, 2006
We get a lot of emails from others asking us to link to their site or suggesting a reciprocal link exchange. What I can’t figure out, though, is how dumb some of these folks are.
Now I don’t mean they’re dumb because they are working on adding new links to their site. That's actually pretty smart. What I’m referring to can be found in the first line of many of their emails.
Can someone please explain why some people think that all email addresses use a person’s name first followed by @ and the domain? How else would the link request emails we receive start out with some of these brilliant salutations:
Hi Site-Contact!
Dear Info,
Hello Accounting,
Just a tip to anyone out there sending out link requests to affinity sites. Don't buy a list or pay for an automated program (spam) to send out emails to potential link partners. Actually spend some time finding true affinity sites, get the person’s name that you are sending your email to, and send a personalized email!
Do you really think someone is going to read an email that starts with:
Dear Services,
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posted by Doug Ausbury at June 6, 2006 1:42 PM
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Comments
As a website owner i also recieve numerous requests for link exchanges. However one of my pet hates is webmasters that dont even bother with Link Trading Etiquette and think its ok to send sub standard link requests.
Posted by: Ecomatrix Web Hosting at August 8, 2006 9:40 PM