| Do you hate Link exchange spam as much as I | | | | * Threaten. Notify them that their link will |
| do? All these link swap requests you get | | | | be removed from your high quality directory |
| every day asking you to link to online casino | | | | if they do not provide a link back in the |
| or pharmacy websites in exchange for a link | | | | specified number of days. |
| from some link farm? Link exchange scam is an | | | | |
| interesting theme for a study per se and | | | | * Show your scale. Make your message easily |
| still awaits its researchers. But in the | | | | detectable as a bulk sending by setting a |
| meanwhile the SEO community is being | | | | different font size and color for the |
| successful in summarizing the guidelines for | | | | recipient's address and site name. |
| the most perfect link exchange scam. (Please, | | | | |
| don't take them seriously:) | | | | * Be unofficial. Use the Internet argot in |
| | | | your e-mail. Like 'u r' instead of 'you are'. |
| Filing an Exchange Request | | | | This is the Internet - formalism is |
| | | | unacceptable. |
| * Send an automated e-mail request or use a | | | | |
| bot to submit it via an online contact form. | | | | * Threaten them again. With hundreds of |
| Combining the both methods is preferred | | | | reminder e-mails. |
| whenever possible. | | | | |
| | | | * Use a girl's name. Most webmasters are male |
| * Use a free e-mail account such as Gmail, or | | | | and should not resist a lady asking for a |
| better yet, some foreign free e-mail service | | | | favor. |
| to send your message. Sending a duplicate | | | | |
| request from your company account is also | | | | Prepare a Sound Links Page |
| beneficial. | | | | |
| | | | * Your link page must have at least 100 |
| * Do send follow up e-mails. Sooner or later | | | | outgoing links, preferably uncategorized. |
| your victim will give up and read one of | | | | Make sure that minimum 50% point to pharmacy |
| them. | | | | and gambling websites. |
| | | | |
| * Send minimum 100-300 automated requests | | | | * Make sure the links page URL contains at |
| every day. Push your mail server's spam | | | | least one poison keyword like 'links', |
| detection to the limits. | | | | 'partners', 'directory', or 'exchanges'. |
| | | | |
| * Make sure that the website you are trying | | | | * Alternatively provide a dynamic URL with a |
| to contact is absolutely unrelated to your | | | | minimum of 100 characters of meaningless |
| field. | | | | parameter values. |
| | | | |
| * Send your request to every e-mail address | | | | * Choose links pages that are in Google's |
| you can find on the target site. Let the | | | | supplementary index. |
| sales or customer support guys forward them | | | | |
| to the webmaster. | | | | * The PageRank for your page has to be |
| | | | between 0 and 3 with 0 being the best. |
| Writing Your Request | | | | |
| | | | * Make your page look more credible by |
| * Address properly. No names required. Best | | | | putting AdSense ads on it. "Well, if Google |
| thing is to use the website's title or at | | | | approves this page, then it is worth having a |
| least the URL: "Dear Blue Cheap Online | | | | link from it". |
| Widgets", or "Hello | | | | |
| | | | * Disguise your low PR links pages by opening |
| * Kiss ass. Tell your victims how much you | | | | them in a high PR frame. |
| adore their websites. Do use superlatives. | | | | |
| | | | * Orphan pages are the best. |
| * Inform. Let your recipients know how | | | | |
| important PageRank and incoming links are. Go | | | | Use SEO Tricks |
| in depth with the mysteries and magnificence | | | | |
| of the PageRank and how the high PageRank | | | | * Link to your partners using one of the |
| will ensure them the first positions in | | | | following options:o 'nofollow' attributeo |
| Google. | | | | javascript linkso 302 'Found' redirects |
| | | | |
| * Scare. Notify them that their link | | | | * Edit robots.txt to restrict spiders from |
| popularity is low, and their positions in | | | | indexing your links pages. |
| search engines are threatened. | | | | |
| | | | * Double protect your links pages from |
| * Share a secret. Tell them that the | | | | indexing by adding meta 'noindex,nofollow' |
| three-way linking is more effective, since | | | | tags. |
| search engines detect and ignore two-way | | | | |
| links. | | | | . |
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