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Monday September 1, 2008
I admit it, I'm rich, maybe not in money, but when it comes to Google PageRank, my site ranks better than 70% of the sites out there. If I had to pay income tax on this, I'd be in the top or maybe the second highest tax bracket. This means that I get asked for charity links all the time. Many people want to be linked from my site, and would like that link to be on the home page, preferably for a long time. In fact, there are lots of ways you can get your article or site linked to from this site - but writing me an email demanding a link is not one of them. Even writing an email asking for one is not likely to get you one. And writing an email explaining to me the benefits of a backlink, thus proving that you never read my site (or you'd know that I know all about the benefits of backlinking, and even wrote an article recently on how to request links), will never get you a link. Okay, it's not charity to provide links to valuable resources on the Web. I try to do that every day with the backlinks I do provide. I'm just not interested in providing links to anyone who demands one, so Don't Demand Links - Even Asking Can Seem Annoying
Comments
Wow, that was obviously directed at someone.
You think?
Seriously, last week was a bad week for me for people complaining about links. I got like 1 email everyday from someone annoyed that I’d linked to an internal link rather than their home page, that I’d linked to them from an internal page on my site rather than my home page, or that I had only linked to them once and they’d requested multiple links.
But what was really annoying was that none of these people said thank you for what I did do for them. The attitude seemed mostly to be that since I had done something for them, that made me obligated to do whatever else they wanted me to do for them.
Then again, maybe it was Sunday’s migraine that wrote this article.
My apologies, I do see your point.