On Melissa Khalinsky’s blog she includes a post about Links to Your Site, talking about five ways of attracting traffic to your site. I love a comment she includes in her first tip:
“…there are many sites who are happy to do a link exchange. Before requesting an exchange, look at the site closely to see if they do exchange links.”
Great tip Melissa. I would like to add to that by encouraging people to request to link only with RELEVANT sites. I have received so many requests from people to be linked to my site, either a reciprocal link or one-way. Unfortunately, most of these requests come from businesses that have absolutely no relevance to my sites – totally different products/services, totally different markets.
Link away… just keep it relevant and appropriate.
Here’s to your success in business…
I get a lot of those sorts of requests too – so many that now I just delete them…
I do too and agree with you Donna-Marie. You have to be very picky on who you choose to link with otherwise there is no benefit.
Good advice. You could easily end up with a link list that’s as long as the Great Wall of China if you accept them all…