How Not To Do Link Building

Just had one of those emails, but this brought email link requests to a new low.

Dear Bloger,
I recently visit your blog, its looking very cool and use full. dear bloger I am related to web development and me and my team going to creat a IT training website which could also called IT portal, which have blog review section also. I like your blog so i really like to include your blog to our blog review page where find Nice IT related blogs and find good blogs same as like yours, but because of articale writing effort we are charging a little price which is 50$ per year, it mean your blog review articale will be placed in our site for 1 year in only 50$. so i hope you will got more traffic from there. please contact me if you are intrested.
with thanks

Problems with this:

  1. If you really looked at my site, why call me Bloger? Sounds like an insult
  2. What is your site called?
  3. Why can’t you spell?
  4. Why are you charging me to advertise on a site that does not exist yet? In fact, you are charging me the cost of you building your site!
  5. Stop being such a cocker spaniel.

Often I also get ones that start with “I have read through your site….”

What? All of it? It must have taken a week!

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