In my mailbox today…

Hi
My name is Lucy Anderson. I’ve just visited your website mediauk.com and I was wondering if you’d be interested in exchanging links with my website. I can offer you a home page link back from my Recruitment and Jobs website which is www (dot) cfs-fund (dot) com
As mentioned, your link would be placed on the site home page, not on any “links” pages which may be buried in the site somewhere. I’m sure this exchange would be benefitial for both of our sites, helping towards increasing our visibility in search engines.
(snip)

Hi, Lucy,

A link on www (dot) cfs-fund (cough) com sounds great. Collaboration is always a good idea.

Media UK has over half a million visits a month; while I can’t help noticing that your site is totally unlisted in Google.

Media UK contains thousands of pages of unique content. Your site appears to contain nothing but ten articles. The article I chose to research was copied from articledistribution.com without any attribution, which is in violation of their terms of use. And it’s really very badly written.

Media UK contains a privacy policy with information required by Google to take part in their AdSense program. Your website contains a privacy policy without such information, which violates Google’s AdSense program. Actually, your privacy policy is so boiler-plate you’ve even forgotten to remove the information at the top urging you to edit it.

Your copyright at the bottom of your website still retains a boiler-plate “yourcompany.com”, and is dated 2007. I’d wonder whether XSitePro are delighted at this use of their templates.

And your letter, Daniel, while it’s sweet that you’re using a girl’s name, it’s less sweet that even this is a simple copy’n'paste job – I bet you can spell “beneficial” correctly if you really try.

On second thoughts, Daniel, I’m not sure I will rush to collaborate.

Cheers, anyway.

Photo: a much better exchange idea, from Chrys on Flickr. Used under licence – thanks!

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