ericward - 7:17 pm on Jun 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

No disrespect intended, but outsourcing to link building to non-native speaking countries is insane. Let explain by giving you a real world example. You'all know I've been building links since cavemen walked the earth. Eleven friggin years :) And it's also obvious that I do NOT engage in the granting of outbound links on my site, I do not have a links page, and my site is purely a marketing site for my services.

But I STILL receive on average 3 to 5 link swap emails every day, and it's painfully obvious they were sent from non-native speaking countries "please to link with site to rank yes?"

If these people would take one dang second to look at my site they'd see I'm not a linking prospect for them.

So, if they don't even bother to look at the sites they contact, and if they send incomprehensible email, all that happens is linking gets a bad rap, when it's actually morons who don't know what they are doing.

Email link requests work if you do them right. I've obtained at least 25 links this week for some <snip> content, using nothing but email to request those links.

I'm sorry to be so passionate, but it really angers me when my industry gets a bad name because of idiots
with email bots. To spam me of all people with a link request email is so dumb it's funny.

Eric

[edited by: engine at 1:47 am (utc) on June 23, 2005]
[edit reason] TOS [/edit]