Tips for Optimizing Link Exchanges

Hot on the heels of my runaway hit post, "Tips for Optimizing Customer Acquisition," I offer the following as an instructive example of one approach to getting folks to link to your website:

Hello webmaster,

I visited your web site earlier today and I just wanted to congratulate you on a well presented, and informative web site.

It's not often that I come across a web site that offers a wealth of quality and hard to find information about [insert the topic of your web site here].

I'll add a link to your great site at our links directory. Please send me correct your site URL and description.

You might want to place a reciprocal link to my web site.

Please feel free to write if you have any questions or comments.

http://www.artgallery.com.ua

Thank you,
Webmaster of Lugansk Art Gallery

I especially like the part where you can insert your own website description. This is a very considerate approach and I recommend it highly for any occasion where you wish to compliment someone without enduring the invariably messy complications of understanding whatever it is you are complimenting them for.

You'll also note that the Lugansk Art Gallery Webmaster is allowing me to provide him with the URL of my highly-esteemed website, again to ensure that whatever URL he has failed to visit is the correct one. This attention to detail is rare and refreshing in today's take-a-shortcut-whenever-you-can business environment.

So, soon...very soon, I'm sure...I'll have the feather in my cap of a link on the highly-esteemed Lugansk Art Gallery, so I've got that going for me. And, by the way, don't try to horn in on my action by visiting the Lugansk Art Gallery site and attempting to ingratiate yourself to the Webmaster. I never could get the site to load.

Comments

Artists. They're soooo creative!

Posted by: George at March 28, 2004 04:49 PM
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