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Using WHOIS information

to contact link partners

         

2_much

12:29 am on Jun 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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When searching for links, I usually search the site for an email address to contact the webmaster.

Lately, to speed up the process, I was thinking of using Whois information.

Have you tried this? Do people respond to those requests, or are the email addresses too old?

I'd appreciate input.

chris_f

10:55 am on Jun 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi 2much,

The only problem I can find is that the whois information might not relate to the site. For example, in my last company alot of domains had our information instead of the clients (hosting was not the promary business). As such the email would not reach the webmaster of the site.

Chris

lorax

1:09 pm on Jun 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'd be a bit careful. The registrant's email address may not necessarily get your message into the hands of the person you're after. And who knows if the record is up to date.

nakulgoyal

6:51 pm on Jun 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have a database of 9,00,000 Domain Name Owners. I think I should try them for Link Popularity.

Do the SENIORS recommend this? I know this would be SPAMMING, but I would probably try contacting a few hundred people to see if they respond. Correct?

lorax

1:23 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Don't bother to send me anything. If I don't recognize the sender and/or the subject it's in the dumpster.

If you're going to do it - make your intent clear in the subject line "Link Request" or some such.

Hawkgirl

3:09 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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There is just about nothing that irks me more than people who have contacted me through Whois information on one of my sites.

I'm usually not the person they need to talk to, and if I am the person they need to talk to, they've usually been so invasive in their attempts to contact me that I write them off and delete their emails/voicemails.

If you were contacting me, not only would you have to be extremely nice and professional, you'd also have, at most, ten seconds to convince me of any and all benefits to me of not terminating the call or deleting the email.

engine

1:43 pm on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Too many link requests come thorugh from irrelevant an inappropriate sites - most of it is from spammers. A significant number come through from the whois.

Anyone taking time to suggest a suitable page on a site will get my attention. They've spent the time to evaluate the site in the first instance.

Relevancy and quality come first over quantity.

Telco_Guy

8:31 pm on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Couldn't agree more with you, Engine. I've been told that it's better to spend the time to try to find a few good quality links (PR5 or better) from relevant sites rather than a lot of low quality (PR3 or lower) links. Also, lately I've been hearing a lot about links from so called "Bad Neighborhood" sites actually causing you to get a PR Zero.

--Nick

Telco_Guy

8:44 pm on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Here's another good discussion on link development.

[webmasterworld.com ]

--Nick