Thread: Flooded with link requests

I am receiving like 30 to 40 generic link requests a day, like these:

Hello,

I just came across your website and I want to ask if I can purchase a text link on your website.

Please e-mail me back and I will send you additional information.

Best Regards,
Todd McGregor
Advertising Consultant
Business Development Department

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Dear Webmaster,

My name is Sandra Stevens and on behalf of Promotion-onweb, I am pleased to advise you of a great opportunity for your website .

I would like to introduce you with some of our clients that are interested in advertising on your site.

If you are interested, please let me know and I will be happy to send you further information.

I am looking forward to your reply at your earliest convenience.

Best Regards,
Sandra Stevens
Advertising Consultant
Business Development Department

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And on and on and on. None of the signed names match the sender's names, most don't have any names on them at all. They certainly don't mention their websites.

This is really annoying!

i just assume they are from google trying to bust us for link sales and delete all of them lol

I get a handful a day. I once replied to a couple but never heard anything back. Wonder what they're up to? Really pointless.

I get them too.

Maybe it's a way of verifying webmaster emails for a big list they plan on creating for a specific purpose?

I haven't replied to any of them, I too think they may just be some email verification process.

I received a bunch of them as well, but they seem to have stopped lately.

ditto, and I have found it far easier to hit the delete button and forget 'em then to wonder whats up...lol I had offer for paid links and they wanted my payment information.....but they failed to tell me how much they were going to pay.... at that point I assumed it was phishing?

Some are legit but i think they are using an automated script to send email to sites rankning for certain phrases.

maybe it does a quick whois and grabs email and sends...

i replied to one and got reply but my price was too high for link sale haha so they offered link exchange...

I replied too but was careful with my wording. I think it might be a big script that wants to get you to say you sell links and then narc you out, to thin the fields (just to get everyone paranoid) - and also, I'm paranoid. Interesting they only have been targeting my not so nice sites....