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Mon 2003-09-29 09:27 |
The amount of emails I get wanting linkage from UK Fetish Info (http://ukfetish.info/) is incredible. Mostly 'adult toy' sites, who are unable to grasp that their products are not 'fetish', just 'sexual', and all of whom seem to think I should feel there is some benefit to me in linking my high-ranked and near-unique site to their unheard of and hugely generic one.
To date, the most common response to my carefully worded emails declining their offers has been a torrent of abuse.
One of them once replied with a note thanking me for the explanation, and said they would be linking to me anyway if that was alright. I was so impressed I linked them after all, in a new category of links that I made up on the spot ('people who link to us').
Generally though, the whole 'reciprocal links' thing really annoys me - it's so naively simplistic to assume that if a link from A->B is of benefit to A's readers, then a link from B->A must be a Good Thing™ for B's readers as well.
The best email conversation I've had on the matter so far went:
"We'd like a link"
"You can't have one" (inappropriate content)
"We'll pay"
"We don't accept paid advertising, we're an unbiased reviews site"
"Who pays for your site then?"
"I do"
"You're mad. Good luck."
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