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I have been working in online marketing and business development for so many years. I have been contacting so many bloggers for the last 10 days. I contacted more than a 100 content related targeted blogs offering a traffic exchange within my home page that gets a pretty decent amount of traffic. Just one webmaster replied me back. I really do not understand such a horrible response. Their emails were correct. Does anyone know here why none of the persons that I contacted email me back, my emails were NON SPAM emails? Are maybe the SPAM filters changing the way that we should make online contacts and partnerships?
Thanks,
Carli
Were they UNSOLICITED emails?
Then you ARE a spammer! I do not respond to unsolicited emails.
- they don't feel your site is a good fit for them
- they are just not interested in link building right now
- they have their own link building strategy and your site is not part of it
- exchanging links is not something they do
- they are busy and not in the humour
- you are the tenth request they had to-day and they are fed up with it
If owners of sites were to personally respond to every unsuitable or uninteresting (to them) link request they got, no matter how properly worded, many would do little else. It isn't productive work. So most just delete them. It is nothing to do with you at all.
I do not respond to unsolicited emails
That's a litte OTT don't you think? I've had unsolicited emails from people who wanted to spend quite significant money advertising on some site or other. Should I have ignored them?
There are unsolicited mails and then there are unsolicited mails....
Hey there!
Your responses have been extremely helpful.
Thanks!
Kiar
Second, a huge percentage of ALL email is being flagged and filtered as spam these days -- depending on the wording of your emails, at least 10% and possibly 50% or more are simply not going to reach the recipient.
Third, because there are so many dubious offers out there, folks who might consider your offer will probably stop reading if there is any grammatical or cultural problem with your email, or if it sounds like it is not personal. Your post here included some grammatical errors and some confusing language; if your biz-dev emails have similar problems, that might be an issue.
Fourth, even if your email is received "positively," the webmaster is quite likely to set it aside to deal with later -- and later will probably never come.
An excellent example: I am the affiliate manager for a merchant -- and since the rules of this forum prohibit promotion of such programs, I'll just pretend that we sell widgets. Last month, we decided to reward all of our affiliates by offering them a FREE widget -- they could choose any widget we offer, and we'd mail it, free of charge, so they could see the kind of product we're selling. We made this offer to webmasters who had already enrolled in our affiliate program, who thus had demonstrated at least some interest in our products. Our "no-strings" free offer generated NO meaningful responses: fewer than 4% of affiliates responded to identify a widget they wanted to receive free.
The solution? Pick up the phone and call (which requires effort to identify the right person and phone number). Or prepare a physical mailer (letter, postcard, whatever -- this, too requires effort to locate a valid contact name and mailing address). Do something to get "outside" the email channel where your message isn't having an effect. The cost is higher -- much, much higher, on the order of 10x to 100x the cost of sending "personal" emails -- but nothing else will get you results.
In any case, probably a lot of those non-responses are the recipient's way of saying "no".
