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