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Well i recieve almost no requests, lol..
guess that means my site sucks.. oh well!!
-MartinAbout ten a day and they all go in the trash.
Then I get about ten notices a day that my links will be removed.
Which I guess I appreciate, I don’t like being linked to by places I don’t know well.
At least 200 a day, but i dont respond to any of the automated ones.
I have no idea how many automated ones, they never get past my filter with rare exceptions.
The real question is how many quality link requests you get in a day. If you are looking for a traffic partner, you will be lucky to see 1 every month that can give you any traffic. You really have to form a true business relationship with the highest quality sites to see traffic benefits.
For backlinking purposes it seems that 2 out of 10 seem to be worthy enough. There are a ton of automated link requests that make no sense, someone just fishing for any type of link, probably a black-hatter. Then there are the slew of 3-way link requests that are written by someone with english as a second language. They seemed real at first, but after a few a day all with similar subject lines and written mostly the same, and all wanting to give you a link from the same looking website with a new domain, you quickly realize it isn’t quality. Those go straight into the trash.
Then there are the link requests that don’t give you the link you are asking for on your site. It’s like they have an automated program that picked up an old link or link from a site somewhere and are trying to automatically link their new site. If you aren’t a real person that can read our page on how to link to us, then we aren’t so interested.
We will link with other sites as long as they are real sites that real people are marketing. As you can see, it becomes pretty easy to decifer who is real and who is not. Sites must be gambling related and be in the Google index, and we check regularly to make sure they don’t become banned sites. Every once in awhile we find one. You can hurt your own rankings if you pick the wrong link partners.
what about those site that can get you like 3000 links in like 3 months? are those good?? you pay lik 15 bucks a month? is it even worth it or will it hurt you more?
thanks
I didn’t see a smiley at the end of that question, so I’ll assume it is legit. Those are all scams (or at the least they are very poor methods for gaining links) and yes it can hurt your site. The search engines frown heavily on this sort of thing.
slotplayer wrote:Hi All,How many emails do you receive for link exchanges in a month say?
Anywhere between 0-5 per day.
Most are low quality, I’ve just started my site/blog sort of things.
THey get binned without reply.
:bored:Some are for unrelated (or slightly related industries).
They get binned without reply.
:bored:Some seem OK – but the tone pisses me off.
They get binned without reply.
:bored:Some are good sites – but still not sites I would personally use.
They get replied to as declined, and then binned.
:notify:Some are actually OK – and I reply with a view to a link.
Usually only 1-2 a month of about 120 initial requests.
:hehe:Other than emails from concerned individuals offering to help me increase the size and endurance of my penis (!!), automated link requests are the most prolific thing in my inboxes.
Regarding link requests, Jim Boykin said it best: 99.9% of them are worthless
jmelwak wrote:what about those site that can get you like 3000 links in like 3 months? are those good?? you pay lik 15 bucks a month? is it even worth it or will it hurt you more?Linkmetro is a good sample about this.
3/4 month old sites with 2k/3k back links from spaghetti to dish tv.
The odd thing is that the owner is a well respected SEO guru.Now, used with brains a tool like linkmetro could be a good source.
Thats what i thought i did not think it was a good idea, so how do people get so many links to there site then, just time and deciding who is worth linking to?
I avoid linking programs like the plague, and I won’t knowingly link to anyone who has link pages.
I do think though that the newer the site, the more important the linking, and I ride on my age (in more than one ways, hehe!).
Just be choosy and careful, if you link to sites google does not like or sites that google will toss eventually, you suffer.
Better safe than sorry.
Grow the number of links slowly and keep checking. Quality is very important, it doesn’t mean page rank, it means well designed websites with good internal navigation and text and without any dirty tricks.
antoine wrote:At least 200 a day, but i dont respond to any of the automated ones.WOW 200 a day, thats a full time job on it own :dajudge:
I get only about 2 a week, but i dont have an “contact us” on my site for people to spam me with it, webmasters have to fill a form to try to exchange with me and already put my link up
I only link out to 4 other sites in total, 2 partner page links and 2 homepage links which are fellow CAP members.
I think with seo in mind that link exchanges is becoming less and less importent for rankings, unless they are quality and google trusted sites exchanging.
I get about 20 requests per day, across various sites, I put them all in a neat lil folder for me to get back to.. and I really do mean to.. but.. *sigh* I never have .
I sent out my VERY FIRST exchange request recently… and I was turned down flat:shakebutt Guess that serves me right.. Karma’s a …. yeah.
~LadyH
As I mentioned in the previous post, a burried link is just that, burried. If you can’t find your link on someones site, neither will a visitor.
All that is required to increase page rank is to exchange links with a related site that has a higher page rank. Optimize a site and get some good content and a decent pagerank will naturally follow.
Like Dom said, link to sites google is penalizing and you’ll eventually get penalized as well.
