Deal killers: 8 reasons I won’t link to you

From time to time I get an email asking me to link to a particular blog. More often than not I decline the request. As you might suspect I am asked why. So I thought I could make a quick post explaining “why”.

You didn’t give me a specific page to link to

Don’t ask me to link to your blogs front page. Give me a specific article to link with. Remember, by my putting a link from my site to yours I am effectively endorsing your blog. Show me what you’ve got and give me an article with some meat to it!

You are spamming me

One email is enough. I will respond back with either yes or no. There is no need to send me 15 in one day. I’m just a little nobody with a little nobody blog. I dread to think how badly you hassle people who aren’t little nobodies.

You’re content is offensive

It doesn’t get any easier than that. If I find your content to be offensive I WILL NOT link to you. Not even when you try to hide the offensive content within your archives.

Your blog sucks

Sometimes blogs just suck. Why would I link to something that sucks? But here’s the good news. Just because I hold the opinion that it sucks doesn’t mean there’s not 100,000 people out there who think it is great. Go talk to them and see if they won’t link to you. If worse comes to worse try submitting your blog to awfulblogs.com and see if you can’t get a link that way. Or you could submit your blog as the worst in Oklamhoma and try to win next years competition.

I have nothing that relates to your blog

If I can’t weave the link into the body of a post I’m not going to link to you. More than that I’m not going to make a special paragraph within the body of my blog to link to your posting. Sorry, I love you and all, but not that much.

My readers won’t benefit from it

That’s probably the single greatest reason I won’t link to you. If your blog doesn’t hold value for my reades I’m not going to waste their time and squander their loyalty. Sorry, but that just doesn’t make any sense.

Your site is down

I understand that sometimes the internet “breaks”, but if I can’t reach your page after 3 tries all of which are 1-2 hours apart I’m not going to keep trying. If you’d like me to reconsider just send a message and let me know.

You don’t link out

If you’re asking for a link from me to you consider linking to me, first. The likelihood of me linking to your blog grows exponentially if you link to me. In fact if you just link to one of my articles there’s a pretty good chance I’ll have an urge at some point to talk about the fact you linked to me. Unless of course…

• You spam me with links
• Your content is offensive, not critical offensive
• Your blog sucks
• My readers won’t benefit
• Your site is down

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