textlinkbrokers.com Spam - Webmaster Forums UK SEO SEM Webmaster Community Forum

temi · #1 (**permalink**) 03-29-2005, 01:51 PM

I keep getting the Spam below from textlinkbrokers.com, I wish they will stop this irritating unsolicited rubbish.
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Karen Boswick (karen@thetextlinkbrokers.com) on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 13:52:03
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Hi,

I noticed that you have a really high quality site,www.haabaa.com , and that you
are actively looking for link exchange partners.

If you are interested, we would like to pay you $100-$200 to link to a
few of our client's quality, relevant sites.

Or, if you just want to simply exchange links, we have links on many
sites that we would be willing to trade.

Thank you for your time,

Karen Boswick
Textlinkbrokers.com
1-800-301-4630

textlinkbrokers.com, the internet's largest link broker is a
division of 360 Enterprises, Inc. and is registered with the Better
Business Bureau.

#2 (**permalink**) 03-29-2005, 11:58 PM

That was spam? I just got that one today.

temi · #3 (**permalink**) 03-30-2005, 05:45 AM

Yes,
Its a spam, I got it more than once from two different sites, exactly the same wording

#4 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 04:03 PM

Hi folks, those emails were not spam. Your site was found by one of the people in our company looking for sites to exchange links with or buy links from because you mention on your site that you would like to trade links. Our email is a genuine, human-to-human offer to trade links or pay you cash for them whichever you prefer. We only contact qualified sites that we have already evaluated and have pr4 or higher homepage, appear to be a quality site, and have a page where they invite people to trade links with them.

Several people in our company had been using the same email account to make administration and handling correspondance easier, and if your site is popular in the search engines, several different people in our company may have stumbled on it separately and both sent you an email. This no doubt made it look like it was a robot contacting you, and we apologize for that. Every email we send, however, is to a hand-selected site and is a genuine offer to that particular site to exchange or sell links.

Our latest offering to the link-buying public, Permanent Links, is selling faster than we can keep up, so we're beating the bushes looking for inventory partners who would like to earn cash or links. We apologize if we've inconvenienced anybody and if you have a quality site, we'd love to hear from you about trading or selling your links.

Sincerely,

Robert Lolmaugh
Manager
Textlinkbrokers.com
rob@textlinkbrokers.com

#5 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 05:47 PM

Hey, good to see real person explaining the situation here. I guess thank you for appreciating my site since I must have 2-3 of these emails already...now show me the money! :P

temi · #6 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 05:54 PM

Money from textlinkbrokers? you got to be kidding, they maximum they seem to offer for any link is $5 which must be a lot of money for desperate webmasters running a link farm.

#7 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 06:03 PM

You have some very nice sites, Pinyo. I''ll ask our team to put you at the top of their list and expedite getting you started. Thank you very much for your interest.

Sincerely,

Robert Lolmaugh
www.textlinkbrokers.com

#8 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 06:14 PM

Temi, it depends on the site how much we can offer for links. For links on links pages, we offer between $5 and $15 a link depending on the PR, while for regular links on the main portion of a web site we offer ongoing monthly payouts that compare very well with other sources of advertising revenue.

Keep in mind that most webmasters are currently earning nothing from their links pages, and for many people a couple hundred dollars per month in cash or links in exchange for hosting some relevant links is a great deal. There is very little work involved for the webmaster, and it doesnt displace other advertising. The money may not be attractive to you, especially if you are making lots of money already with your site, but for webmasters with sites that aren't producing a lot of income yet who would like to either raise some cash or get more links, I believe our offer is a fair one.

Sincerely,

Robert Lolmaugh
www.textlinkbrokers.com

Paul_KY · #9 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 06:52 PM

Robert,

You're doing this to manipulate/spam the search engines, correct?

Your min of a PR4 is a dead giveaway. Do you not know the search engines are now frowning on this practice?

Fly

By

Night...

#10 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 06:59 PM

Yes indeed we are helping people manipulate the search engines. Its called SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization). Many people are doing it these days

Search engines have always frowned on SEO. That doesnt stop it from being a huge thriving industry. If you're a web site owner you might want to try doing some SEO on your own site. You can get some good, targetted visitors from search engines that way.

Sincerely,

Robert

p.s. love your sig!