So how do you guys approach this one...
You get an email from someone saying "Hey we've put your link up on our link page. Really like your site. If you could put ours up on your links page that'd be great." or something to that effect. So you never talked to them or arranged a link trade but they put yours up anyways and ask that you do the same with theirs.
Now I know there are a lot of bogus emails like that goin' out from bullshit sites that don't really exist or are randomly, autogenerated.
But some are actually legit.
What I try and do is wait a couple days to see if I'm actually getting any traffic from the link they put up to my site. If they're sending a good amount, I'll get a recip from them and throw theirs up on my site. I'll also check to make sure that the link they put to my site can actually be found easily on their site. So I'll navigate through their site as surfer would to see how easy it is for me to see my link there and make sure it's not hidden.
I try and do this whenever I get an email notifying me of such a thing to be nice and fair, but oftentimes simply can't catch everyone and don't have the time for it.
Do you guys feel obliged to return the favor in situations like these or do you just sorta not pay much attention to em and figure "hey i never asked em to so don't really have to do anything in return"?
On the one hand I don't want to be mean and rude and appreciate their linking to me, on the other hand I can't afford to put up a recip for every single site I get one of these emails from because I don't want to dilute my links page, it'd take time to do it, and I can't vouch for the quality or legitimacy of every single site that does this.
What's your take?
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