tryme1 wrote:
Personally, I ignore all requests for link exchanges that I receive via email. The only link exchanges I ever participate in are one that I have initiated myself.
Yep!
Don’t link to people contacting you by mail. Black SEO places do this routinely, and you can’t always tell that they are using methods google penalizes. They get into trouble, you get into trouble.
It’s best to link to people you know from here or other boards. It’s still not 100% safe, but it gives you some recourse.