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Would somebody say a mail for a link exchnage is spam?
Exchanging links is what the internet is all about isn’t it?
How are your thoughts?
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The answer is ‘it depends’. If you’re emailing someone who obviously doesn’t do link exchanges, and you’re sending a form letter to an address you looked up in whois, or just blindly sending it to webmaster@example.com, then yeah, it could be considered spam. On the other hand, if a site says email me at this address if you want to trade links, then it’s not spam, because you were invited to email them with your request.
Hope that helps. I’m sure there are other perspectives. I’ve never had anyone complain I was spamming them when I approached them for a link exchange, but I tend to take a different approach than some webmasters who blast out 1000 identical link requests to 1000 different email addresses at the same time.
cat wrote:Would somebody say a mail for a link exchnage is spam?Exchanging links is what the internet is all about isn’t it?
How are your thoughts?
Cheers
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What Randy said. A link request isnt, 1000 simultaneous links requests are, even if they are to 1,000 different domains.
I too agree.
my opinion is that is not spam.
What is the definition of spam?
Anyway spam has a bad taste.I find even if submitting a le request to 1000 people is ok as I only like to do business.
I have a spam filter on my PC and if I am not interested to exchange links I delete the mail without reading.I find the chance to trade links with anybody shall be given.
Both parties can benefit.
Definition of spam: ‘unsolicited bulk or junk email’.
Three Questions :
1) Your email is unsolicited I assume ?
2) Was the email address harvested from the site (rather than an exisiting contact of yours) ?
3) Was it one of many that you send out each week ?
If you answered YES to all 3 questions then YES it probably was SPAM.Even if the answer to the 3rd question was NO, the recipient doesn’t know that and may consider that they received SPAM …
To put a recipients viewpoint on it …I receive about 100 or so of these a week now :
– I check out some if I feel that the writer might actually have visited my site … and is making an individual request …
– I bin the rest and consider them SPAMOne mans request is another mans SPAM I guess …
:dontget:What Randy said… If you got the email address off a links page, it’s okay.
If not – it’s SPAM.
When someone sends out 1000’s or just 100’s of link exchanges all at once it is DEFINETLY SPAM.
I have 100’s of sites… when some jerk does this, I get 100’s of emails on the same day from the same person and it pisses me off — and they just shot themselves in the foot in regards to actually getting a link exchange from me.
Quote:Both parties can benefit.Not if I have a great website with PR6 and their’s is a new website. They would of course be the only one benefiting.
You might try a more humble approach – realize that when you are trading links with someone – it is YOU – who initiated the exchange. YOU are the one who thinks its a good deal.
Usually a trade is considered “mutually beneficial” only after both parties agree to this.
thanks for your replies
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