vincevincevince - 1:27 am on Sep 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

beren, those are some excellent observations.

When you talk about poisoning the well...

I would love to review link suggestions which are from true site visitors with a genuine interest in the topic of the website. I can't. The number of genuine suggestions would be swamped by the number of webmasters and their outsourced teams engaging in self promotion.

I don't think it is fair to give links on the basis of link requests. Even if a website suggested to me is really good, I'd not link to it because it's unfair to all the other websites which aren't spamming me and are equally as good.

I link frequently, but the only effect your 'suggestion' email will have is to make me less inclined to link to your specific site. Want a link? Attract my attention by providing such an outstanding website that when I stumble across it in the course of general browsing, I feel I want to link to you.