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I have a question: I don't want to be a spammer, at all. I want to make commercial - but useful websites (no direct marketing spam like 'read my e-book and your super big problem will be solved in an instance'....I think I really have unique and useful ideas for those sites, but...
how will I get the first few links so my ideas can spread? Can I send *personalized* e-mails to webmasters, if I really have some unique content, that would help their visitors? I heard this wasnt very effective as webmasters really just deleted them these days.
So my 2 questions are:
a) if you guys have a new site, how do you get people to take notice of your site? I mean it can be as useful, unique, have the best content in the world, but if nobody ever hears of it, you'll have the most beautiful website, nobody has ever seen - so how do you go about doing this?
b)how can I protect myself from running into trouble because somebody reports my site as being spam - either because I did send out a *personalized* e-mail request or just because a mean competitor is trying to harm me? Is there anything I can do?
if I see this right, the hosting company hardly matters, because you can always get a new host, right?..so the domain name and DNS is where problems could be caused?
I just read another thread on here, where people were talking about how everything is considered spam these days and that usually the person who just says 'this or that is spam' will be considered honest...and the webmaster of the site/owner of the e-mail address is guilty until proven innocent (but can never prove he's innocent, if he is?lol). I'm really a tad bit paranoid about this, now, because Im thinking: cant every competitor just say they received spam e-mail from me..maybe a few times and from different e-mail addresses and my site will be gone?
What can a webmaster do to protect their sites? Is the stuff I read just a bit exaggerated and there has to be *actual proof* of emails being sent out to tons of sites or something like that to be labelled a spammer?
You seem to be talking about email spam. Any unsolicited mails may be considered spam - it depends a little on how they are written; for example, I hae a directry, with clear submission rules, and yet I still get scores of emails offering a 'link exchange' - they clearly haven't even looked at my site, and so I happily label ALL of them as spammers.
If enough people do that, they'll soon find that ALL of their mail is being diverted to spam boxes, and not being read.
For another site, I do get some emails that are obviouslt from people who have seen the site. These I always delete - but never label spam. Others may answer some; others may label ALL as spam. If it's unsolicited business mail, people may do that.
Unless you do it on a very large scale - or keep emailing your rivals - the very WORST that is likely to happen is that email address becoming useless (plus a few abusive emails).
Your site itself is unlikely to be affected. But neither is it likely to gain much from the whole business. I've never requested a link exchange in my life, and never suffered in the slightest for that. Chasing links in 2007 is overrated, in my view.
Submit links where invited to do so ;)
"Chasing links in 2007 is overrated, in my view. "
What do you mean by that? That links are overrated? Or that one should focus on viral marketing/link baiting and have webmasters link completely voluntarily - and thus not 'chase' links?
I'm not saying links are dead; but most 'chasing' will simply get heavily discounted links that help little if at all. I have sites - and I've seen many more - with a handful of links that do much better than many sites claiming to have thousands.
Life's too short, and the rules of the 'game' have changed!
its quality links, not quantity. Get into relevant quality directories - especially local and niche ones, and concentrate on making a site that people will choose to link to.
Depends. For SE ranking you might need both, but if you are in some areas, the links themselves bring mega traffic, so quantity is best if the traffic is relevant.
