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How would you react to a request like this:

From a PR7 site

         

inbound

1:36 am on Apr 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Imagine you get an email that's quite different to the standard spammy link emails that we've all seen.

The email is asking you to write a unique description for a link to your website that currently has no description (the link is on a PR5 page on a PR7 site). The site owners seem to be hand picking sites to link to but getting the site owner to write their own description. I'm guessing they are doing this due to the amount of links that they do not have descriptions for (they have around 5 to 10 truly relevant links on each page, probably several thousand overall).

There's no need to link back, there's no fee and the links are standard PR-passing ones. The site is monetised by AdSense (one adblock per page), but the amount of good quality information on each page means I'd be happy sending traffic there in certain circumstances (although I do not link to them). Also, they rank well for a variety of searches already.

So, far it all looks good.

Here's the rub, on the page that you can enter your description they politely ask for a link (anywhere on our site) and suggest that their reviewing of my description will be prioritised - they also state that they will review all descriptions, linking is not neccessary. I have not entered a description yet and since recieving the email have seen other site owners get nice descriptions added to their existing links.

Would you:

Add your description and link back to them
OR Add your description without linking back
OR Not add your description?

daveVk

5:37 am on Apr 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Downside may be that this PR 5 page ends up ranking above you in search results, for terms you provide in description.

SEOteam

10:15 am on Apr 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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"Downside may be that this PR 5 page ends up ranking above you in search results, for terms you provide in description."

How would that happen?

daveVk

12:29 pm on Apr 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Say your brag is "only supplier of mil spec widgets", and is on there PR 5 page, and your PR? page. Searchers for "mil spec widget supplier" will end up where? If PR 5 page also contains brags from other widget suppliers it will be very keyword rich.