Comments on: Weirdest Link Exchange Request Ever?

By: Dylan Murphy

Dylan Murphy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:23:06 +0000

Thats brilliant,, at least he got a link out of it!! and we will all remember the way he did it!

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:06:22 +0000

Hey Richard,

I’m fairly new to blogging and came across your site hoping to create a useful backlink to my struggling domain and had this great pitch to grab your attention and S**T! someone has beaten me to it!

I’ll have to go away now and think of another suitable request to lay at your door. Could take some time as I’m a slow thinker.

Cheers,
Neil.

By: Marc Levy

Marc Levy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:24:25 +0000

Great email! I have received a few very similar ones recently… I wish I had kept them now so that I could post them up here! Maybe you should write a post where everyone can comment/post the funniest link requests they have received, I am sure enough of us get them!

By: Cormac

Cormac — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:39:20 +0000

I don’t know what’s better, Richard’s post featuring the weirdest request ever or Richard’s burn on Nial (comment 5 & 6)

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:02:37 +0000

Liam – maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spammer

Michele – I think the google search in one of my comments above sorta sums it up

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:43:19 +0000

I read the “we’ve been framed” post on their blog and giggled. An SEO using frames on their own site?
And what’s with all the affiliate links etc., ?

By: LT

LT — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:32:14 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:00:57 +0000

http://www.google.com/search?&q=yourseoconsulting

Speaks volumes. As they say, there’s a fine line between genius and insanity. Or in this case between genius and stupidity.

I reckon though it’s a great email template for a link request (if it weren’t for an ‘SEO’ related site).

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:45:13 +0000

Poor damage control in my opinion. I wouldn’t have given them the link.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:40:16 +0000

That’s just plain weird.

I’m now beginning to change my mind and go along with Dave.
This is one of the weirdest things I’ve come across in a while.

Rgds
R

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:37:48 +0000

“class action lawsuit”. Ehhh, right. Doesn’t seem to look like he knows what a class action lawsuit actually is.

By: Jason Roe - SEO SPAM

Jason Roe - SEO SPAM — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:41:46 +0000

From his blog:

Our Blog is Being Framed – http://url.ie/4f0

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:37:01 +0000

I am not thinking crafty, I’m thinking dumb. And again, if this is the way he is acting, I don’t think he is qualified to be offering SEO consulting.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:29:30 +0000

D’oh! Forgot to include the tag to my previous comment!

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:41:11 +0000

Hi Niall

I was tempted to show you how I use that little rel attribute on some of the comment anchors that are left here as well… I have a very handy little tool that lets me add a nofollow to people who abuse the author anchor.

But what the hey… I’m feeling nice. You just want to hope that I don’t start ranking for your company name

By: search engine optimisation ireland

search engine optimisation ireland — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:29:37 +0000

hehe – nice use of the nofollow microformat Richard

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:11:47 +0000

Hi Eoghan

Yeah I was thinking about that. Do I include the link? Well just so inquisitive types can take a look I put it in (suitably condomed of course – don’t want to be linking to any bad neighbours after all).

If I am proven to be right then this guy doesn’t care though about the nofollow – he’s only after traffic (check out those high volume phrases he’s targeting with the links in the footer).

Rgds
Richard

By: Eoghan McCabe

Eoghan McCabe — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:05:04 +0000

Ha! Well they got a link out of you, anyway…

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:50:31 +0000

Hi Tom

I have a feeling he knows exactly what he’s doing. Of course, it could be very far down the other end of the scale….

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:39:57 +0000

Excellent Richard – contact him back saying what he needs more than a link is some SEO Consulting which you will happily provide and here are your rates…