Best time of week/month to gain links

What days are best?

[Ledfish]

I have been working on gaining some links. I'm doing it all manually because I know I don't respond well to most inquires that appear canned. So when I do mine, I try to mention something unique to my perspective targets site. Something that you would only notice if you took the time to actually look at the site.

I'm building a directory site with-in my general industry. I have designed it so that it is very SE friendly and will provide all with a great link. Links to the listed site are straight hard links. More importantly though, my directory will provide sites listed with exposure and thus traffic.

Anyhow, I Sunday I e-mailed 25 sites, On Monday, I e-mail 20 sites and on Tuesday, I e-mail 20, so 65 total. Out of 65, I have only gottewn response from 2. It's like everybody is on vacation (knocks on screen, "hello, anybody home and wanna trade links" LOL)

So I was wondering, is first of the week the wrong time or is it just the wrong time of the month. I just can't understand why the response is so slow?

[Firemile]

Honestly, getting 2 responses out of 65 is pretty good.

People generally say 1/100 will trade links via email requests.

I know that it would take me an hour a day to properly reply to all the exchange links requests.

[rj87uk]

I would look at what your writing! They numbers are really bad 1/100? you crazy! ;p

I would say i get 1/10 saying yes. I think its more to do with the way you right your email... a 'Dear Webmaster...' Email I would just bin, a 'Dear Raymond' i would read all the way through even if it was no good i would email back because they took the time to read who they were sending the mail to.

are the websites your email in the same market? and not just the general market?

Is the page your saying you will place his link any good?

do you tell the guy, what SEO and link exchanged are all about before you ask (annoying eh?)

Thing is if he has a links page with 'add your site' email link the chances are He knows! *sigh..

RJ

[Lorel]

I usually get about 50% of acceptance for link submissions but I'm careful re which sites i submit to.

re your question--best time of week/month to gain links I believe it is right after a google backlink update so they have time to get recorded before the next update.

However, if you are wanting them to increase your page rank (pagerank update occurs quarterly at present) then I would do it after the PR update but at least a month before the next PR update so Google has time to pick those up.

I have a few new sites with PR 0 and I'm hoping they will go to PR 2 or 3 at this next PR update and THEN I will go seek more links for those as hardly anyone wants to link to a PR 0 because you can't tell if they are penalized for some reason or just new.