Howdy
Had an email this morning:
“I have a question regarding your site. I was wondering if you will let us buy a text link on your http://www.tailored.com.au page for our client www.xxxxxxx.com. We can pay you $50 for a one year run of our link. All payments will be made up-front via PayPal.
We would also be interested in a “guest post” of some sort regarding xxxxxx if that will be more to your liking.
Please send me an email at your earliest convenience so we can make a deal. I look forward to working with you.
Thanks again for your time,
Adam xxxxx
xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com”
Stop Drinking Before 10 am Adam!
My reply was this:
“$50??!
You’re kidding aren’t you??
No more drinking before 10 am for you!”
The Value Of A Link
You see, a link on this web site is very valuable because Google trusts this web site and trusts (to a lesser extent) the sites I link out to.
It’s kind of like Google thinks:
“Oh Brendon’s site has been going for 10 years, he writes tons of stuff, lots of people see him as some sort of authority, he has tons of links coming to his site, he doesn’t sell links from his web site, etc…..we trust him.
So we’ll trust those people he links to too, because Brendon wouldn’t link to them if they were dodgy.”
And because Google trusts the site I’m linking to a little more, they go up in the search engine results.
Which makes a link on my home page very valuable.
And Adam, who is trying to buy a link off me for $50, is trying to screw me by offering a stupid figure like $50 for a link that would be worth $1,000 +.
Adam just hopes I don’t know how these links work so he can take advantage of me.
Prefer Young Blond Women
Now, sure, I don’t mind being taken advantage of, but I prefer it be by gorgeous young blond woman.
Now stop reading and get back to work!
That goes for you too Adam. Put the whisky down and start sipping on water instead mate.
Cheers
Brendon
Cheers,
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After all that (I quite agree) does his clients web-site have anything to value add to your site? As a customer of yours is there any benefit to me or those like me?
did he really ask you this via a gmail account?!
My feeling is… If there is not a 2 way benefit (and more) no matter how much money is involved, it is just unprofessional…
Again, just my opinion.
1000 bucks really? Aren’t you stroking your epeen a little to much Brendon?
Thanks for the feedback
Van Obrock – you’re kind of right I reckon.
$60 a month for a link on the home page would be about right, but the other thing to consider is this:
As soon as Google sees me selling links it devalues this site and devalues the value of all my outgoing links (because they’d then be tainted and lack credibility – basically Google would see I can be bought).
So the cost to me of selling a linking would be huge in that when I linked out to others, Google doesn’t trust the links and thus the links don’t help who I link out to.
Whadda reckon?
And Mike
And to Mike, he of the hide behind a fake email address who spews his bile here.
Jeeez mate, for someone who doesn’t care you sure seem to care.
Not interested in your negative crap mate. Piss off and annoy someone else.
And one day, might be next week, might be next year – you just might have the courage to stand behind what you say with a real name.
Or, and this one’s a long shot, you might actually have something worthwhile to contribute rather than just the hate stuff.
Cheers
Brendon
This is dodgy territory for anyone to “spam” someone re paid links nowadays, particularly as Google now allow webmasters to report paid links for both the site publishing them and the site purchasing them via Webmaster Tools. Brendon, you could’ve quite easily reported them to Google, which would have had a devastating effect on their root domain and for them to take this “out of the blue” risk with such an incredible financial offering was nothing short of stupidity!
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