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Despite this I still receive emails with link exchange requests. These people that ignore what I'm saying are wasting their time and my time. Why bother asking for a link exchange when there's a 100% chance that you won't get it. Your efforts are better served doing something else for your website.
Here's how to do a proper link exchange request.
1) First of all READ what the websites link exchange terms are. If the website owner wants you to go through certain steps do that. If the website says, they are not accepting link exchanges, it means they are not accepting link exchanges.
2) Don't ask the website to link to you AND THEN you'll link to them. Why should they link to you first? Ain't gonna happen! You should link to them first and then maybe you'll have a shot.
3) Leave the websites link up for at least a month. Any website worth linking to is going to be busy. So in turn, the website owners are busy and just are not able to post your link right away on their website. Think about it! Sending emails to the website owner threatening that you'll delete their link doesn't work either.
4) Try not to send long and drawn out emails about the benefits of exchanging links. It's obviously a link exchange form letter and gives the impression that you're sending the letter out to hundreds of webmasters and hope that just a few will bite. The webmaster already knows the benefits of link exchanges. This type of email will be deleted.
5) Only exchange links with websites who are of a similar subject as your website. Nobody will link to a site that has nothing to do with their website. If the website owner runs a web design site, why would they want to link to a wig shop? That's just stupid.
If the link exchange does happen, don't delete the link later on. Surprisingly a lot of webmasters do this. They will request a link exchange and once you add their link, they'll delete your link so that they have a one way link pointing to their website. That's an extremely rude thing to do and a waste of everyone's time. The site will find out what you've done eventually and you'll have ruined your online reputation.
Keep those ideas in mind and you'll increase your chances for a successful link exchange.
Good luck with your link exchanges.
