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Example of a Junk Link Request
If you send junk link exchange requests, they will usually be deleted as spam. On
the same token, if you receive a message like the following one, you should delete it
as spam. Most link exchange requests should go right into the junk bin.
Hello Sir/Ma?am,

I was at your site today. Great site! I was
wondering if you would want to exchange links. I
already have a link to you located at
http://www.spamsite.com/links/reciprical-links-
exchange2/other-sites37.htm.
As you well know, search engines look at links and
give sites credit for their incoming links. By
linking together we
make both of our sites stronger.
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Some of them even take it one step further and give you emails with subject lines
like ?your link ? final warning,? as though they offered any real value.
Eventually, Aggressive Promotion Techniques Get
Discounted or Penalized
Even if a shady site has decent link popularity, you can usually bet that they will be
losing it soon if they are associated with and exchange links with all kinds of
random sites. Link exchange may work up until a point, and then eventually it
becomes link farm. A link farm is a site with a bunch of completely unrelated links
scattered about in no logical order.
Eventually, overly aggressive sites get penalized, but webmasters using those
techniques will usually have already started another site, and you may end up
suffering for their greed if you exchange links with incredibly aggressive sites.
Another trick they may use is to have you link into their good site and link to you
from a different domain of essentially no value. Since their good site is not going
to get penalized (because it does not link out to any shady sites
, it does not matter
much to them if their bad site and your site receive a spam penalty for being part of
a link farm.
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