Do you send link exchange requests directly to [e-mail]?

Or, do you try to pick an address off the website itself?

[West of Willamette]

I haven't done the volume of link exchanging that I want to start doing, so before I start my first large link-building campaign, I want to make sure I'm doing things in an optimum manner. This question seems too basic to ask but I'm not sure which choice is the most effective one.

[agerhart]

Find the address on the website.

[West of Willamette]

If there isn't an address on the website that speaks to the issue of trading links, is finding any "contact us" e-mail address on the site still preferable to a "webmaster@" e-mail address?

[jimbeetle]

is finding any "contact us" e-mail address on the site still preferable to a "webmaster@" e-mail address?

I don't use a [e-mail] address. Therefore, I'm pretty sure that any mail coming to that is either junk or is from somebody too lazy to find the "contact" link at the bottom of each page.

[chrisnrae]

Yes, find any contact address on the site. As a webmaster, I would immediately trash a request to a default email. It is usually the result of automated crap. If a person can't be bothered to look around my site for two minutes for a proper contact address, I certainly am not going to waste MY time looking at their site to consider it for a link.

And please, find the email as a human LOL. I absolutely hate getting duplicated link mail to all four emails listed on a site because someone scraped it for my address. That will make me hit delete faster than any other thing when it comes to link requests.