Add-a-Link or Add-your-Link programs

Large percentage with broken submission process

[lgn1]

As part of our link campaign, we were looking for sites that was specifically targeted towards our industry, but not direct competitors, and which was soliciting for links via a add-a-link program.

We found that in over 50% of the time, the link submission was broken, or the submission went into a black hole. When we attempted to contact a person at the company, via phone, we often got a hostile response.

We go to a lot of work, to select companies which are a good fit for a link, then we add their link to our site, fill out the form, only to no avail.

We are not sending unsolicited link requests, they are asking for relevent sites. If they are no longer running a link campaign, then they should remove the add-a-link option.

Anybody else have experiences like this? Maybe it is only industry specific.

[delco7]

It appears I have the same issue. Submitted a link on an admittedly strange looking page offering free linkback. Verified email. Then there was no place to login?

Suddenly a few days later did a link:blahblah.com search on google and guess what. There is my page showing up on their inbound links. In addition, my outbound links which i never submitted a url is showing as an inbound link on the link:search. The page is obviously just an adsense farm or whatever, and somehow they're bouncing something off my site and it appears as an inbound link to these scammers site.

This page has a high PR cause it's number 3 in my keyword search for the specific kw's I'm interested in.

I bet if you did a link: search on your domain you'd find the same thing. #*$!?

At this point, I'd just like to find out how to stop this abusive behaviour....any ideas?

Delco