How to phrase link requests

**Kyle** · 06-09-2004, 02:37 PM

I've decided to spend a lot of time obtaining incoming links for my site www.surviveoutdoors.com. This was sparked by a realization that just about all inbound links contain the words "survive", and "outdoors". Not many people search on the word survive, but outdoors is a different story. It appears thousands of people search on outdoors a day.

Anyway, I'm currently ranked ~32 on Google for the general term 'outdoors' and I think it would be a fun goal to get into the top 10 on surch a general phrase. So I'm contacting people for link exchanges.

Sending people an email requesting a link exchange is easy, however there are many sites that freely link to sites without it being reciprocal. So I'm trying to think of a good way to be friendly, nice, and properly represent my site when asking for a free link. It's extremely hard and was wondering if anyone has any ideas? I think it's important to mention the size and originality of content, as well as the thousands of unique visitors we receive a day... but then I don't want it to sound obnoxious causing the person to delete the email.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

**Chris** · 06-09-2004, 03:03 PM

I had no problems doing this for my wilderness survival site. I got many free links. I'd just mention the URL and say I thought they might like to consider it.

**Kyle** · 06-09-2004, 03:05 PM

Hmm.. keeping it short and simple. Seems to be the easiest when contacting people for free links in mass.

Thanks. How is your site doing lately as far as unique traffic?