How Not To Build SEO Links for Small Business
March 19, 2010 – 3:42 pm
Well - it has been MONTHS since I wrote in my blog due to the fact that I have been 100% completely full to capacity serving my client base as a marketing consultant here in the Seattle, WA area. I have been spending a good chunk of my time developing social media and SEO programs for my ecommerce retail client and came across this request for a link exchange. I am not a believer in these spam, quantity versus quality type of link exchanges so wouldn’t have even bothered if it was properly executed but quite frankly it is the worst case of how NOT to request a link exchange I have ever seen so decided to share it. (Note: my client is a retail clothing company and his client / company was findasnowblower.com and he is suggesting that we would be a good match - hmmmm)
Want to get real traction? Better to sign up for high traffic directories, distribute press releases, get product reviews on media and blog sites or get your manufacturers / vendors to link to you.
Definatey don’t try something like this:
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To: my email and about 30 other company emails
Subject: FWD Partnership Agreement
Hello,
I have found your website <partner domain> when searching the web on the topics related to my website theme.
I must say your site content is very good and I think we would benefit much from possible partnership - for example link exchange. This would bring more targeted traffic to our sites, plus increase our websites’ weight at the search engines, as they give greater value to the links from the topic-related sites rather than irrelevant backlinks.Alex Brown,
My website findasnowblower.com is definitely related to yours.
I would be glad to link to your site in return to you linking back to mine.
Feel free to email me direct to usproblogger @ gmail dot com to discuss the details on the possible partnership.
Hope for the fruitful cooperation,
Best regards,
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