Blazingpie
06-06-2006, 12:11 PM
Well, i remember when I started SEO, the first task I was given was dealing with link exchanges. Recips were still hot, though eventaully it had to be highly-themed recips, and eventually recips werent really worth it (google started devaluing them, etc, etc) and out came triangular linking, though that was far more difficult to monitor so it didnt catch on as much as recips (which still wont die, some people just cant seem to adapt to the times fast enough lol). Well, recently i received an interesting link-exchange email that made me chuckle.
basically, they were wanting us to link to two of their sites and we'd receive 3 links back (all one-ways). Ok, i thought, sounds interesting, though he didnt specify in the email what sites were involved (some weird excuse about spamming). so I replied, asking for the sites, and he gave me the urls. Thats when I laughed. He was wanted links to two new sites from a PR5 homepage and in exchange i'd get 3 links from 3 stupid little directories (brand new too) who werent even indexed past the homepage. good grief. Didnt it occur to him that if I wanted to get links from those directories, I'd submit the site myself?
Seeing emails like these (other than the link requests from SEOs in hungary and belgium wanting links from a magnetic therapy site to a **** or casino site) makes me wonder just how desperate linkbuilders have become with regards to getting link exchanges. I know that over time SEOers are becoming more and more jaded to these emails and often ignore them completely (treating them like spam), but times must be getting really desperate for these linkbuilders if they don't expect the SEOer of a PR5 site to be at least slightly clued up...
lol, perhaps I should submit the site to his directories anyway, as a joke :p
basically, they were wanting us to link to two of their sites and we'd receive 3 links back (all one-ways). Ok, i thought, sounds interesting, though he didnt specify in the email what sites were involved (some weird excuse about spamming). so I replied, asking for the sites, and he gave me the urls. Thats when I laughed. He was wanted links to two new sites from a PR5 homepage and in exchange i'd get 3 links from 3 stupid little directories (brand new too) who werent even indexed past the homepage. good grief. Didnt it occur to him that if I wanted to get links from those directories, I'd submit the site myself?
Seeing emails like these (other than the link requests from SEOs in hungary and belgium wanting links from a magnetic therapy site to a **** or casino site) makes me wonder just how desperate linkbuilders have become with regards to getting link exchanges. I know that over time SEOers are becoming more and more jaded to these emails and often ignore them completely (treating them like spam), but times must be getting really desperate for these linkbuilders if they don't expect the SEOer of a PR5 site to be at least slightly clued up...
lol, perhaps I should submit the site to his directories anyway, as a joke :p