One of the most common problems that most webmasters face, is the type of link request email template to use when they contact other webmasters to request a link.

According to an interesting post at Wiep.net, the perfect link request email template would look like this:

{Greeting} {Name},

{Opening/ Introduction}

{Explanation of why your website is relevant to the one you’re contacting}

{Close},

A post at Search Engine Journal elaborates on the arrival of LinkVooDoo, a tool, that plays a very important role in link buying or link exchange campaigns.

It is a free tool (so don't have to worry about the cost factor) and has the ability to measure the quality of a website and tell the users how valuable is the link from a particular website.

Jon Henshaw of Raven SEO Tools fame, has piled up some very interesting tips on how you can get the most out of your Delicious.com bookmarked links.

Here are his tips on how one can create a Dofollow Link on Delicious:

1. Try to be the first person to bookmark the link. That way you'll be able to control the anchor text that's used in the link.

Peter DaVanzo's ideas are always worth reading, at least once! This time, the guy has managed to come with few ideas to help everyone turn their LinkBait launch into a huge success. Here are his ideas:

1. Create a brand for your product. Make others feel that the product is worth having in their kitty! If it is free, then people will think that it is worthless. So try to create an impression that it is not less than any other product or service of its kind.

A majority of search engines are of the view that the process of providing reciprocal links refers to 'spamming.' Yahoo, in their Search Content Quality Guidelines, has also given certain examples of content that they don’t want to include in their search engine. Here is one of them:

• Sites cross-linked excessively with other sites to inflate a site’s apparent popularity (link schemes)

Link Building is getting popular day by day. It is the process of creating inbound links to ones own website. It forms one of the ways to make your site popular. It is has certain advantages like: getting quality traffic from relevant sites in order to increase the sales, your site will also be seen as a valuable resource, increases credibility of your site, the website gets wider search engine exposure and also gets indexed by search engines properly.

Linking schemes are getting quiet popular these days! It is all about the game of getting more and more traffic to your website! People do everything increase link popularity… Money factor!

Now here is another news from the hub of “linking schemes.” Backlinks.com has allowed Google to index User IDs, Passwords, Link Sites, etc.

This is an example as to why one should not participate in “linking schemes”.

The hullabaloo was mainly initiated by New York-based advertising agency, MediaWhiz, launching a new product, namely Inlinks. The functionalities of the product are fairly outright, it enables advertisers to purchase advertisements on specific keywords. The product is essentially a smooth-functioning paid text link service that makes it extremely hard for Google and other Search engines to detect the paid links.

Normally I tend to receive a lot of mails from people asking for link exchange, some even request a link from my blog and some from my websites. I end up throwing these emails in trash, and there are a lot of reasons for that. I would like to discuss on some of them.

Mistakes in sending a link exchange email

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