Comments on: Why You Should Ignore Most Link Requests

By: Mobile guy

Mobile guy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:30:07 +0000

I would like to sell some links.

By: roentarre

roentarre — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:54:46 +0000

I have a guy who exchanged links with me and I was classified as a spam site too. Really sad.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:16:27 +0000

The only reason I even read link requests anymore is for the pure humor.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:40:28 +0000

If you want to know the ins and outs of managing link exchange requests, I’ve written an article on what I’ve learned from it – having done it for a few years.

By: Mike Montague

Mike Montague — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:31:58 +0000

Link exchanging can always be touchy. I’ve been burned on it before.

By: TrishaLyn

TrishaLyn — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:02:10 +0000

Heh I really should have ready this the other day before sending out some link exchange request emails. A misguided attempt by my company to improve our SEO, as I’m sure many companies have done. We’ve learned our lesson though! :p

By: Allen Taylor

Allen Taylor — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:25:16 +0000

I had a similar request a couple of weeks ago. The guy wanted to pay me $15 each for permanent placement of one paragraph on several pages of my website. Each paragraph was to have several links and it looked so spammy. The odd thing was he wanted to put these paragraphs on pages that would obviously be counterproductive for me – a sales landing page, book review pages, and my e-zine opt-in page.

When I kindly refused to sell links on those pages at any price and countered that he would have to pay me a monthly recurring fee equal to or greater than his one-time offer PLUS, and this was a major condition of mine, I would write the content to match the tone and voice of my website if he would send me his anchor text and landing pages so that I could review them prior to accepting closing the deal, all I got was, “Let me know when you’re ready to go.”

Like, hey Dumb Ass, did you read my counter offer or do you just treat all of your potential business partners like they are unworthy of your business? I won’t be dignifying any more requests.

By: S.Hamel

S.Hamel — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:58:48 +0000

Got one of those offers 2 weeks ago, despite saying “no” right away, the guy kept insisting. I raised the issue of clearly stating its an ad, limiting the lifetime of the link and so on, and asked for clear contact information: name, physical address, even just a web site! Got a lot of info, including other web sites who accepted his offer (all pretty lame…) but never got any contact information! The guy name was not Shawn, must have been his brother…

By: Zen

Zen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:32:54 +0000

I feel kind of sorry for Shawn.

By: roentarre

roentarre — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:30:30 +0000

I had been offered these types of requests a few times and most were scams anyway.

My PR never goes up and I wasted plenty of money

By: Cesar

Cesar — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:02:05 +0000

I never got these kind of offers but it is really great if you can sell text link for a high price but I prefer not to sell permanent link in my site.

By: cheapdomain

cheapdomain — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:30:24 +0000

i think you sould not buy any links at all.
buying links will stay only if you submit to internet directories.
internet directories most of the time can do more harm then good.
also read more about reciprocal links truth
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By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:17:12 +0000

Lol, I had a guy negotiating with me that had a “best offer” of $4 per post for 2-3 links per paragraph.

Darren’s post was very humorous as I have been through that process myself a few times, although the numbers are much smaller as I am a small fish right now.

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:56:52 +0000

Good advice; I turn down all link exchange offers as well. The money might be attractive but the long term hit on the blog could be severe.

By: Rob Kingston

Rob Kingston — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:56:06 +0000

Beautiful.

I have been approached by some people like this – sometimes offering $200USD for a bunch of permanent links – and I’ve never been able to succumb to their offers. Good to see a post that verbalises the insanity of this model.

If I were to accept one of these offers, I’d make it clear that the content they post their ads on could disappear after 12 months.