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link building SEO contest participants use various SEO techniques including giving away Superman tickets to those who would help them with their link development efforts.

Others would easily give away a PR6 link to get that Google shirt:

I was coaxing him to give me the shirt in exchange for a PR6 link but I was turned down! -Alleba

And so, the following link exchange effort would not hurt, right?

Mitch,

My name is Bill Marbach and I work for a company called The Gourmet Kitchen. We run a website called www.thermosonline.com and our main line of business is selling Thermos products.

I found your blog through Google’s keyword alert program and saw that you mentioned the word “thermos” in your post titled “A pleasant, quiet Saturday.”

I wanted to ask if you would consider linking the word thermos to Thermosonline.com. If so, we’d be happy to send you a Thermos item of your choice in exchange.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

-Bill

InformationWeek’s Mitch Wagner received that e-mail requesting for a link. Mitch found it to be something innovative stating, “Bill from the Gourmet Kitchen has discovered or invented a new twist.”, when actually it has long been employed by Filipino SEOs, especially during SEO contests, and maybe by some other sneaky link exchange requesters.

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Posted in General, Link building, SEO techniques on November 23rd, 2006

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3 Responses to “Get Sweet with Your Link Building Tactics”

  1. dennis Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 11:44 am

    Andrew’s was not a link building tactic rather it was an ‘owning a google shirt’ strategy

  2. SEO Dance Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    @dennis

    But the point is he’s almost gonna give some link love for a google shirt.

  3. Andoy Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 11:47 pm

    @Dennis: I was that desperate to own the shirt! But thanks (wink3x)

    @Alfa: Thanks for the mention :) IMO, people are also willing to give link love in exchange for schwag. It’s an easy linkbait but the schwag has to be very cool.

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