Lots of Reciprocal Link Requests

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Lots of Reciprocal Link Requests

Does it mean I'm doing something right?

pjamescowie

4:02 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi there,

Over the last month or so I've received a steady trickle of requests from people whom I've not previously encountered to set up reciprocal links to each other's sites......

Whilst I have absolutely no intention of pursuing such a shady course of action (these sites having nothing whatsoever to do with the content of my site), can I at least assume from such approaches that I must be doing something right?

i.e. that my site has now become worthy of receiving links from in others' pursuit of a better ranking?

Anyone got any thoughts on this? Similar experiences?

Crush

4:05 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

Probably some bot coming to visit your site, fetching your mail and sending out an automated link request more like. Then agian it depends on your page rank. Maybe people want to link to you because of that

kriskd

12:32 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've been getting a number of those too. Some requests are more personalized than others. I just achieved a PR5 on my main page and have a PR4 on my links page, that must be why I'm getting the requests. I also talk about link exchanging on my site and perhaps that is getting picked up in searches or something.

All are commercial sites (mine is personal) although some do have something in common with mine. I am linking back to most of them as long as I can continue maintain a "clean" links page that doesn't get too lengthy and is easy to read through.

I referenced my "best" link exchange request so far in another thread. I received an e-mail this morning from "Hotels Today Network" wanting me to link to their 263 sites! I don't plan to link to even one of theirs -- we'll see if they send any traffic my way before the take my links down (apparently I have one on each site).

Kris

wkitty42

1:48 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

are these link requests coming from FFA sites? do they mention the non-existant spam bill S.1618?

jdancing

2:14 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

I find once you hit a PR-4 on your link page the link-beggers come out of the woodwork.

deejay

2:26 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

I find once you hit a PR-4 on your link page the link-beggers come out of the woodwork.

Logical. Many of us when hunting links check backlinks of successful on-topic sites to see where they get their links from. If using link:www.xxx.com on Google, those sites below PR4 don't generally show.