Email Service for Link Development

Anyone provides this service?

[sdani]

I have a good web site and a lot of people link to my competitors. If I send them an email informing about my new site, many of them respond favourably and add my link along side my competitor's links.

I am short of time to send all the targeted emails. Anyone provides this service? I mean If I provide all the URLs, then someone has to go through these web pages, decide if it is a good place to ask for a link, and if it is, then compose and send an email to the web master.

If there is noone already providing this service and if I hire some student / someone else from the net.. how & how much should I pay?
1. Per Hour
2. Per Email
3. Per Email + bonous on per successful email?

Any inputs?

Thanks
SDani

[rogerd]

There are link hunting services that you can find on freelance websites. Select carefully, as some of these services tend to work the same cheesy sites where they can always get a link instead of focusing on new contacts specific to your project.

As far as how to pay your own staffer, any of the approaches you mentioned can work well. You may have to experiment. The individual's personality makes a difference, too. Some may need the incentive of a per-contact or per-link plan, while others will work just as hard for hourly pay.

[sdani]

Thanks for the inputs. I did get some other suggestions via sticky mail too, and I think overall posting this question has helped me alot.

Thanks again
SDani

[BroadProspect]

I think that in order to choose the right party to work with you should do this on your own for a while to really understand the issues involved
/BP

[sdani]

BroadProspect:

Thanks for the input. I am doing exactly what you suggested. The best outcome of requesting links is that some people have responded to me with feedback that why would they not link to me (features). This feedback is very valuable to improve the performance.

Thanks
SDani

[howiejs]

So in these emails to other sites - do you mention that they are linking to a competitor (name it) - and then request that they link to you?

Or do you just say I wanted to suggest an additional resource / new site for your review?

My question is in these sorts of emails is it best to actually request a link or just bring their attention to your site?

[robotsdobetter]

You may what to use link exchange if you really need links fast, but like others said you should do it yourself, alot of webmasters blocks (I do) robots or software like that.

[BroadProspect]

yep, the free link exchange software out there allow youi to add a link that is not recipocated yet, so you add it and then contect the webmaster that you did
/BP