How could I refuse?
Message:
To Whom it may Concern,
I recently discovered your “Home” page here:
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/10/17/ipad-as-the-new-flash/
Would you please consider adding a link to my website called Job-Applications.com? It is a resource that provides hundreds of printable and online applications for retail stores, department stores, pharmacies, grocery stores, restaurants, shops, etc. Its a great way for people to find part time and full time work quickly.
If you think it would be of use to your visitors, would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page here:
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/10/17/ipad-as-the-new-flash/
Here is the HTML link you could add: Job-Applications.com – Find hundreds of online applications and printable job forms.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
[Name withheld]
Filed under: Best practices, business, The Essentials
19 Responses to “How could I refuse?”
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Wow. Surely an ofer you can’t refuse Jeffers.
“Name Withheld” you’re a mentalist.
I got an email last week that said “we’ll pay to put a text link ad on one of your pages” the other day and bit, just to see what the rate offered would be. $100 per year! I told them that wasn’t worth the time it took to read their email and now apparently they are working on getting back to me with “a much higher offer.” I think we may settle on a good old fashioned link-exchange between friends.
Such a great idea. You never cease to amaze!
Well of course you should link to it! It’s totally related (sarcasm). I like that they took the time to actually attempt to explain how it’s related and posted the link twice (just incase you missed it).
The funny thing is, I did come here looking for full time work at a pharmacy or grocery store.
You should get them to include a link back to your site. I hear it helps with that search engine stuff.
Fantastic sleuthing on their part to hunt down your “Home” page.
Ha, how could you refuse an offer like that? :) At least they should have the decency to scrape off your name for the title field on the automated email first :P
I have written an article on the setup of some complex linux software in 2004, for some reason it ranks high. I keep getting angry emails about how it does not work for some people, demanding I solve their problem immediately.
The internet is full with these idiots.
Holy crap!
“The internet is full with these idiots.” So true!
I don’t know what you guys are freaking out about. I keep all of my home pages in my archive.
It’s where I keep my SEO.
A link buyer kept pestering me with lots of reasonable-sounding language and euphemisms to make it sound all white hat. I finally wrote back: “Sure, you can pay me $250/year for a rel=nofollow link.” That shut her up!
I noticed in the “IPad as the New Flash” article your mention of mellotron usage, and I had to bring your attention to this magnificent album: Opeth – “Damnation”. Haunting album, Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) produced it, and mellotrons swirl throughout its melancholy landscape.
Truly a once in a lifetime opportunity!
He surely managed what he wanted- his site has a PR of 6 with 387 linking domains…
I get a lot of SEO spam at work. OF course, they’re all finding me on the web, so I think I’ve got that covered.
The real insistent ones, I tell them about my vendor application policy. They get to pay us $2,000 to review their application to be an approved services vendor. (No guarantees, of course.) That’s stopped ‘em every time.
I received an email from one of these outfits. Their website looked legitimate. When I did a search, the search engine appended “scam” to their name. See ya later.
Ironically, (s)he won, unless you changed the url.
Is that winning?