Whats worse than a link exchange email?
A link exchange request on Digg, thats what. Can you imagine anything more likely to upset Diggers and less likely to work?
A great example of somebody not understanding social media or website promotion.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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@randfish You have email support system for @seomoz so you need to divert your work related emails through that rather than thru you
@patrickaltoft / about 15 hours ago@randfish Try emailing patrick@blogstorm.co.uk and see what it says. Emails now come to the company where we can scalably manage them
@patrickaltoft / about 15 hours ago@randfish Just read your post. I suggest you turn off email & setup autoresponder pointing the post.
@patrickaltoft / about 16 hours ago@randfish I deleted my blogstorm email address before Christmas & added an auto responder. Best thing I ever did.
@patrickaltoft / about 16 hours ago
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A close second to the guy’s first mistake is using bad grammar. When asking for a link exchange, other webmasters won’t know you so they judge you by how well you write, in addition to your website of course.
Well.. you know what they say… there is no such thing as bad publicity..
I guess that with your single post this guy achieve his objective.
I’d say his first mistake was posting it on digg, or perhaps joining a company that trained him so badly.
It is almost too funny to believe. Give the guy a break, he is thinking outside the box!
That would be hilarious as a joke (especially if it had a Borat reference or something,) but if it’s for real, well, I don’t think anyone will be linking to the site in question.
How sad.
Don’t think the poor guy got any links exchanged…but hey..at least he tried!
cyberst0rm’s tech blog
http://cyberst0rm.blogspot.com
He sounds so innocent, I almost get a lump in my throat.
All he is thinking about is the amount of money he can make off of Adsense. That site looks like a disaster hit it!
Give the guy a break. I have made some crazy mistakes when I first started out. And I “know” I’ll make glaring mistakes in the future. He’ll learn . . . give him kudos for taking action. So many of us let the unknown and ignorance stop us, instead of using those life conditions to learn and become experts through our errors.
Wow . . . “Experts through our errors” that’s a damn good book title! Okay, I thought of it first folks, no body steal it.
Oh c’mon…I bet he got at least one real link out of it. People love irony, and this is ironic for sure. Of course, if there were a thousand of these on Digg people would be pissed.
oh dear god…
I wonder if people will take pity on him and decide to throw him some one way links…
yes, I am the stupid blogger, i’m sorry about the action of I done. My english is poor, but I want to make some friends in english and help me improve my skills. I read the report and post an sorry letter in my blog:
http://shangning.net/blog/my-requestion-about-link-exchange-in-digg-be-spammed.php
It’s not as bad as an e-mail I had the other day asking me to have a look at a stranger’s site – they wanted me to look at every page and send back a critique including suggested improvements! Needless to say my reply was polite, bordering on the incredulous!
Fair play to anyone who tries rather than just complaining though…
Here I thought the lingerie site requesting a link exchange with me and then saying our sites were related was bad enough. This takes the cake!
That’s very funny. I had funny link request too. Although posting on Digg is off the charts.
Nice grammar…. tut tut!
Very good. I am searching sites related to cigarettes for swap link exchange.
RE Original post/comment and further comments I was able to make sense of – the whole thing without Google keeping on top of tweaking their algory(i)thumbs can be very revealing especially when one considers comments like the one from “Devon Websites” in this log
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/worst-link-exchange-request-2/
I find it most funny finding things like this over the web.
As an english person, you can see what they are trying to say in some cases, but other cases it could mean one of several things.
On a blog i have, i get total rubbish blog comment titles like this, and a fair bit of time worse than this.
“I need people, link me” or “Help india by adding blog to yours” just 2 of a whole heap of junk i have had.
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just i will say we always learn from our mistake so pls do mistake
dont laugh at anyone
I Agree with AHMEDJAMIL , he said well, without any mistake we can’t learn more.
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