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Please link back to my site in the next 5 hours or your link will be deleted
I couldn't just let it go. I gave him links to a few threads here and hope he reads them. So have any of you ever helped out the truly clueless or do you just delete them?
What else can I say... delete the message, let him delete the (most likely worthless) link, and keep searching for quality on-topic links yourself. Oh, and remember to be nice when you ask.
Truth be told, I'm having trouble getting back within a month lately - but that's another story.
To the question - I help very occasionally when I'm launching a new site and I see promise in the requesting site. If it's a useless site, or my site is well established, then no.
NB - it's not that I 'don't need' their link on an established site - it's just that the number of requests by that stage make it impractical.
So the webmaster writes back - "are you going to link or not?".
:P
I would consider that this type of e-mail is very rude. Why would you allow someone to put such a pressure?
Me too, DELETE!
Yes, sometimes in early days...but experience taught me that most of the time it is better to remain silent. Also depend upon the mood at that time.
My last samaritarian action was when I was approached by "journalists" from a student magazine for free tickets to an important tradeshow. We get those free-tickets-requests a lot, but since I worked for a student magazine myself many years ago, I took pity with them.
I explained that there was a perfectly legal way to get free tickets for student magazines - that you even get accredited as full fledged journalist with access to the press centre etc, and I described what they need to do and even whom to contact. I told them that I did the very same when I was in college and wished them good luck.
What I got back was a one-liner "We asked for tickets - not for a lecture".
I got annoyed and said "please remove our link" but I am often VERY helpful in explaining linking strategy, etc to people who are clearly lost.
I respect the misguided but not the rude.
TJ
"Thank you now I can prove a point to my boss" basically meaning that he/she told the employer that something was flawed with their methods.
lol
"Send me your url, you don't even have it in your profile. Let's see what you're on about! If it's on-topic and approriate I might give it a link from my web site."
I seem to remember that we were told in school that man descended from the ape.
It would appear that the process is not yet complete.
Today, I just delete the requests that don't measure up.
