Do you have a link monkey?

[ozni]

Hi,

Who is in charge of your link development, do you do it your self or hire a Link monkey.

What instruction have you given to your link monkey?

[peewhy]

If I get what appears to be a spam driven rec link request I bin it.

I don't believe the sender has looked at my site and if they are sending out so many, I'm not going to benefit.

[createErrorMsg]

A very clever and relevant response was made in message#2 of this thread, and then quickly overpowered by a deluge of bad monkey puns (I mean that in a nice way), and I just want to make sure it gets its due...

kevinpate said:
Green bananas, though not spectacular today, will ripen in time

Bright yellow bananas, though pretty and edible today,
have a short shelf life and may go bad very quickly

:)

Since the original post was about what instructions to give a link building "team," kevinpate hid a real nugget in this little witicism: getting links from "green banana" sites is a decent linking strategy if you assume you'll be around for a while. New, fledgling sites are far more likely to give you a link than an established, authority site (just read any of the dozen posts made each week by people who routinely receive and discard 50 to 100 link requests a day). Then as the site "ripens" over time, you end up with a rising-quality back link.

Thanks, kevinpate, for the clever, and smart, post.

cEM

[sem4u]

Some auto-monkeys keep sending me messages to say that my link has been removed from widgetsite.com. I never received their first e-mail...

[donovanh]

I got an email recently from someone saying that they have linked to my site for a year and that I will have my link removed if I don't reciprocate.

As it happens the site didn't exist 6 months ago.

What's worse is that I actually do link to them!

[peewhy]

I think this reflects the negative or zero responses from their orginial requests.

It is a rather aggressive stance and adds to give a bad name to 'link request operatives'.

[Crush]

"Some auto-monkeys keep sending me messages to say that my link has been removed from widgetsite.com. I never received their first e-mail... "

Yeah, although never have done that one myself I think that one makes you think for a second or too.