What's This Albout?

[Tom Carlson]

I frequently get e-mails like this

Hi,

I visited your site www.fairviewflorist.com and I'm interested in
swapping links with you. I can add your link to a category specific
page on our site www.peakdirectory.com, in exchange for a link back
from the home or internal page of your site.

If you're interested, please reply to this email with your link
details and the URL of your links page below:

What is this all about?
I always delete
But what are they trying to do?

 

[theRKF]

They are trying to gain links to their site to boost their search engine rankings. Links are one factor among many that influence rankings.

These lousy emails are some of the worst kind of link building.

It's kind of like Viagra spam. The marketing message (& usually product) are lousy, but they keep sending because a small % of people fall for it.

Delete and move on - that's about all the time they are worth.

Ryan

 

[Dazeal]

Tom reply back and say this sounds like a great idea, can you send more info to my personal email address... and give them Bloomz's email address.

lol

If you ever get mad at someone I can show you where you can enter their email address and it gets sent to 1000+ email spammers.

lol I am just kidding... or am I? lol