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Five Deadly Sins Guaranteed To Kill Your Link Requests

November 4, 2012 by Eric Ward

By Eric Ward

July 30, 2007

The full text including hyperlinks for this Link Week column 
can be read at SearchEngineLand.com here

Here in the Link Week column, we mostly discuss intermediate to advanced linking related subjects, but I’m compelled to cover a very basic topic this week. Link requests. The link builders are out in force this summer. The proof is in my inbox. Over the two weeks since my last LinkWeek column, I’ve counted the number of link requests I’ve received. The total? Forty-two.

This is both funny and tragic. It’s funny because I do not give out links, I do not swap links, I’ve never had a links page, and the only place I’ve ever provided outbound links is within my LinkMoses blogscroll, and even that is limited to about twenty-five other sites, all of whom are run by people I know and have great respect for. So any link builder seeking a link from me has either not visited my site, does not know me, or does not care who he/she spams. Funny!

It’s tragic because you would think that with all the attention link building has received over the past few years, people would better understand…read the full column at SearchEngineLand

Link well my friend,

Eric Ward

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