Predicament!

I've recently attempted the link exhange advice. I researched and added a maximum of 7 external links on 5 of my articles, giving me 35 external links altogether that I'd like to exchange with.

In good manners I added their link to my site first and then e-mailed them via their 'contact us' page to ask politely for an exhange link stating I have already added their site and how useful I think it is for both out users.

Sad thing is! Not a single one of the 35 agreed or even replied to give a backlink. (over 2 weeks waiting)

My e-mail was polite and resonable, so I don't think it would be the problem. I'm guessing it is because my site is newish, even though I have pagerank 1.

What would people sugest with this predicament? Thanks a lot for reading

 

Speaking for myself, I get so many rubbish link exchange requests that I don't look at most of them, just delete them.

If the first sentence of the email really looks like its written by a person who has actually visited our site (ie not a standard 'We really like your site...' email which doesn't mention my site by name), and the page I'm being offered a link on isn't called something like link25.html then I'll usually take a look.

I especially ignore ones that talk about PR and then offer me a link on a page with about 200 other links already listed.

So I guess you were doing the right thing, but it's hard to get someone's attention nowadays.

And a lot of people are PR obsessed so if you only contacted high PR sites that will have made things even harder for you.

 

Drop the idea and do article submission.

 

Thanks for your reply.

I tend to keep the e-mail as personal/specific to the site as possible. And, with the links being to articles it should benefit us both!

I already do articles submission its where my traffic comes from, linking it more for SEO than traffic!

 

Hi, don't worry so much if none of them replied. After all, if it doesn't work out, you can always have the option the remove the links. Maybe in the future, if you intend to exchange links, work out some agreement first before start adding the url to your articles.

 

Like Rasputin said, many webmasters get so many crap link requests we tend to ignore them. Pretty much anything that looks like a template email gets immediately deleted. I get requests all the time like "Dear Sir or Madame - We looked at your site and found it to be blah, blah, blah". Little do they know I operate dozens of sites and if you don't mention my domain name I know they're full of sh--.

Exchanging links nowdays is an uphill battle. You're better off watching this forum and finding sites to exchange links with here where people are always looking for link partners or exploring other methods. Like you've seen, it's a lot of work with little results to just email link exchange requests to people you have no relation with. At least here we're all part of the "DP family".

 

Sending link exchange request emails is unprofessional. Trying to promote new sites with link exchange requests is even worse. Work hard on building one way links and when your site is established enough and with good PR, then ask for link exchanges with other quality sites (if you still need links.)