Bill,<br>I have been and continue to look for places to advertise.<br>I am not sure that my site would work with yours.<br>As you may recall, I do various forms of energetic healing work.<br>While it would be nice to get somewhere in the realm of<br>
page ranking, I am simply not sure we are a good match.<br>I think that if the party that sent the request has relevant content,<br>then by all means I see no problem with them linking to you.<br><br>Nice to see you again!<br>
Namaste'<br>Scot<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Bill Kendrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I just received an email asking if I was the right person to contact<br>
about advertising on LUGOD.org. (I get those all the time for my own<br>
domains, and sometimes the business or org. seem relevant and benign enough<br>
that I decide I'll take the $$$ to add a link on the site. I later realzied<br>
that most of these people are trying to do SEO (search engine optimization),<br>
whereby a 'high PageRank(tm)' site links to them, improving their rank.)<br>
<br>
Anyway, like I said, I just received one for LUGOD. What do people think<br>
about this? Right now, we have returned the favor to some folks who have<br>
donated to us in the past, by linking to them on our Sponsors page, as<br>
well as randomly showing them at the footer of most other pages of the site.<br>
(Some donations were monetary, others were service, e.g. Sunset Systems<br>
hosting our site and mailing lists.)<br>
<br>
Should I give a big "Not Interested" reply, or find out what they want?<br>
<br>
The people that contacted me today are recruiting-service-related, which one<br>
can argue is sufficiently on-topic. (We have a Jobs mailing list and<br>
Jobs web page, so we already promote the concept of people Working With Linux<br>
:) )<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for your feedback,<br>
<br>
-bill!<br>
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