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Introduction: I received the following email, subject line “Want to Buy Text Link from andrewgelman.com”: Dear, I am Mary Taylor. I have started a link building campaign for my growing websites. For this, I need your cooperation. The campaign is quite diverse and large scale and if you take some time to understand it – it will benefit us. First I want to clarify that I do not want “blogroll” ”footer” or any other type of “site wide links”. Secondly I want links from inner pages of site – with good page rank of course. Third links should be within text so that Google may not mark them as spam – not for you and not for me. Hence this link building will cause almost no harm to your site or me. Because content links are fine with Google. Now I should come to the requirements. I will accept links from Page Rank 3 to as high as you have got. Also kindly note that I can buy 1 to 50 links from one site – so you should understand the scale of the project. If you have multiple sites with co
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1 I have started a link building campaign for my growing websites. [sent-3, score-0.529]
2 The campaign is quite diverse and large scale and if you take some time to understand it – it will benefit us. [sent-5, score-0.439]
3 First I want to clarify that I do not want “blogroll” ”footer” or any other type of “site wide links”. [sent-6, score-0.423]
4 Secondly I want links from inner pages of site – with good page rank of course. [sent-7, score-1.291]
5 Third links should be within text so that Google may not mark them as spam – not for you and not for me. [sent-8, score-0.558]
6 Hence this link building will cause almost no harm to your site or me. [sent-9, score-0.633]
7 I will accept links from Page Rank 3 to as high as you have got. [sent-12, score-0.366]
8 Also kindly note that I can buy 1 to 50 links from one site – so you should understand the scale of the project. [sent-13, score-1.098]
9 If you have multiple sites with completely different IPs – then I will buy from those sites also. [sent-14, score-0.496]
10 But I want to clarify that I am not willing to throw away the money nor it is my first day at link building. [sent-15, score-0.452]
11 My portfolio includes 500+ domains and new webmasters are joining my campaign on regular basis. [sent-16, score-0.481]
12 So while you will be quoting your prices quote wisely and keep in mind the long term business relation. [sent-17, score-1.061]
13 If you cannot find the PR pages of your site – I can do it for you. [sent-18, score-0.413]
14 But first tell me your price for 3-4 links from one page for various PR values. [sent-19, score-0.62]
15 Looking forward to hear from you soon, Regards, Mary Taylor What I love about this, beyond the fact that the introduction is “Dear ” and that they used the painfully generic-sounding name, “Mary Taylor,” is the email’s commanding tone. [sent-21, score-0.189]
16 So while you will be quoting your prices quote wisely and keep in mind the long term business relation. [sent-26, score-1.061]
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Introduction: I received the following message from “Patricia Lopez” of “Premium Link Ads”: Hello, I am interested in placing a text link on your page: http://andrewgelman.com/2011/07/super_sam_fuld/. The link would point to a page on a website that is relevant to your page and may be useful to your site visitors. We would be happy to compensate you for your time if it is something we are able to work out. The best way to reach me is through a direct response to this email. This will help me get back to you about the right link request. Please let me know if you are interested, and if not thanks for your time. Thanks. Usually I just ignore these, but after our recent discussion I decided to reply. I wrote: How much do you pay? But no answer. I wonder what’s going on? I mean, why bother sending the email in the first place if you’re not going to follow up?
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