Why Linking Is Harder Now

[Cornbread]

Originally Posted by lucia

This is the typical unsolicted type of link exchange I get:

Some complete stranger emails me, tells me they love, love, love my site and I place their link blog wide and in exchange they will give me one measly link on an individual PR0 blog page of my choice. (Their site is totally unrelated to my topic. The anchor text the want me to include is never remotely related to my blog.)

They also stipulate that I put my link up first, contact them and then they will post a the link to my site.

I generally ignore these offers, but twice I replied that I would be glad to post their link on some pr0 internal page of mine if, in exchage, they would put me on their index page and make sure the link appears on the side bar when single pages appear. And I ask them to contact me when they have posted my link and then I will post in the individual page of their choice.

Basically I am offering them what they offerred me--but my counter offer is actually better than their offer because my blogs PR was notably higher.) They didn't answer. (Imagine that? )

I'm sure these people have trouble getting links.

Nice post, interesting. Those people that do that are either arrogant, rude or just stupid.

I have a football website and blog and I get a lot of offers from gambling (sports betting) sites to enter into a link exchange. I have refused all of those offers. I think it is disrespectful for someone to contact you for a link, but then tell you to link to them first and then let them know when your link is up and then they will add yours. The proper way to do it is the requestor should add the requestees link first, then ask for a recipricol.

[GreekCrusader]

So how can a brand new website with a PR of 0 exchange links other than provide good content or bookmarking?

[zokiii]

Originally Posted by peter_d

The biggest waste of time is to send link requests. It's not 2001 anymore.

I don't agree with this.

You can't always get good links because of great content you must sometimes send some link requests.

Example if you found some good old site with good trusted links, and webmaster of this site is not looking at competition or industry, then you send him an email that you have great site which will be interesting to his readers

You can't link bait edu sites or some old good ones.

[lucia]

Greek Crusader:
The new site could probably exchange links if they followed Cornbread's advice: Fulfill their side of the link request first.

Also, I have put up links when people ask: If the page is relevant to my site and I like it. So the requests aren't always ridiculous.

But if you want to have some hope of getting a link, you should also make offers that are at least remotely fair. Sending email to complete strangers requesting they place an absolutely stray looking irrelevant link on their most heavily trafficked PR 3 or above page in exchange for a link on some page buried deep inside a brand new commercial site with not one page ranked above PR1 is silly and a waste of time.

Why would anyone want to spend the 3 minutes of their life putting that link up? Deleting the email is much easier.