Link with us ?
Well maybe, and maybe
not...
Most probably not.
Sydney Australia, November 2006.
It's taken me several years of work to hand-write these
pages with quality content and to build credibility on the web.
And I have moved to a different server and dropped many of my
listings to other sites. It was all just too messy and I fear
of little value to either the site's visitors or to me as
webmaster.
The days of link exchanges to just anybody are long over.
It's been way overdone, and the search engines place very
little value on reciprocal linking nowadays.
There are also spammers using automated programs to submit
their sites for a link back. And it takes heaps of time just to
delete them en-masse. I mean hundreds and hundreds each time I
look. So those directories are gone.
There is still some value to be gained by link
exchanges, but only if they are between web sites which share a
common theme. Quality helps as well.
So let me spell that out for you: "Only between good
quality web sites with a common theme".
My themes are:
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Aikido
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Martial Arts
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Self Defense
If you want to get a link from me, and your site is not
targeted to one of these themes, I am not going to link to you.
So please don't waste my time, or yours.
If you have an auto-generated website I am not going to link
with you.
If your content consists mainly of other people's articles,
I won't link with you either.
After all that, if you think you qualify. Please contact me
and show me your site.
Sincerely,
David Harvey
gedanate (at) yahoo.com
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