The last couple of months I have been advertising a "25 Free Links" promotion that involves my giving what I consider a quality link on 25 different sites in exchange for a swap partner placing my Linknet page somewhere on their site.
The response to this promotion has been pretty good. I get four or five takers every day, and a few every week who prefer to pay a small fee (currently $14.99) instead of giving reciprocal links.
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Unfortunately I also get far too many people who send me their link information without indicating where they have posted my link page. Either they have not read the instructions or perhaps they are thinking they might slip under the radar and get free links without reciprocating.
I guess they don't realize I personally am the radar. As with so many legitimate link exchanges there is very little automation involved, so each of these requests gets looked at by yours truly. And I must admit it is quite aggravating when I have to spend time looking for a link page that may or may not exist.
I also get far too many "exchanges" from webmasters who think they are being cute by putting my links on a garbage site that they seem to have set up for no reason other than to exchange links with suckers like me. They get hundreds and hundreds of links pointing at their real site in exchange for crappy links on garbage sites that essentially have no value. One webmaster (who will remain nameless) keeps coming back to me with the same request. Today he posted my links on a page that was more than 15 clicks from the home page.
What exactly is the problem with giving legitimate links anyway? Either these guys simply don't understand how this linking stuff works or they are simply being dishonest. But I can't understand why they would intentionally alienate good-faith link partners like this?
As I have said many times before, there are many puzzling tactics employed by spammers, marketers, and webmasters who are just too clever for the rest of us. This deceptive linking stuff is just another example, and it simply doesn't make sense to me.
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