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Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-11-16 11:13:47 - Graham Ellis

What do the following have in common?

1. Discount Spa Covers
2. Childcare products
3. Poland Translation Services
4. Telephone Headsets
5. Executive life coaching
6. Eye Surgery in Houston
7. Web Design Courses
8. London Flatmates
9. Film and television casting calls
10. Door handles
11. Bedroom Furnishings


They're all - each and every one of them - products offered by companies that I've been asked to provide links to ("link exchanges").

We have a successful site such - with around 130,000 hits per day during the week, and around 70,000 hits per day at the weekend. And it seems to me that others want to share in our success. And I'm all for co-operation, but targeted co-operation rather than participating in Link farms. You'll note that I put in links to local businesses on our web site, I tout products that I like and use (with links too) and I encourage our customers to do the same.

Many of the requests for links that I've listed above included the sentence "PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A SPAM OR AUTOMATED MAIL, IT'S ONLY A REQUEST FOR A LINK EXCHANGE." in their email. Yes, sure! Pull the other one - it's got bells on it!

The illustration? Something else that's utterly irrelevant to our activities as a training provider and hotelier in Melksham. It's a picture of the waterfront at South Queensferry, on the Firth of Forth