Johannes Beus
At the moment, especially newcomers see linktrade as a popular way to get sufficient links. Though you are still able to make mistakes there. Just like the professionals at internet-help-guide.com. Since mid-2005 I regularly get a few E-mails a week in which they are inquiring if there would be a possibility for a linktrade. I answered the first E-mail by Leonard Kerr with statement that I do not offer linktrades as a matter of principle, that the offered site was beyond good and evil of searchengineguidelines and that they would please kindly refrain from contacting me in the future. Sadly it seems that their inbox does not get read – besides Leonard Kerr I am now also getting tons of mails from Oliver Balk and Anette Widmark who are spamming my inbox with pre-formatted defaultmails. I grounded the E-mail addresses directly on the mailserver and I truly hope that I will have some quiet now.
So: quality before quantity. Personalized E-mail. First generate an Internetpresence which offers real added value.