Thursday, August 15, 2002
Pet niggle time.This is an excerpt from an email I recieved recently:
I run a site called www.(I'm not promoting your crappy site).co.uk. It features MP3 streaming and downloads. Each band gets reviewed on the front page which helps people visiting the site. Also bands can give up to 2 tracks away free and sell the rest as downloads. We have no backing or £'s and so rely on the help and support of sites like yours.
If you can squeeze me into your front page, I will guarantee that I'll put your banner on my site.
I looked at this site.
There's very little content and if there are free downloads, I couldn't see them.
Now, fair enough, every site had to start somewhere, and I do state on my site that if people will link to me, I'll happily link back to them, so why did this email annoy me?
I get a lot of traffic to my website, and along comes this guy with his crappy little site, no content, no traffic worth mentioning, and he wants me to link to him from my FRONT PAGE, in return for a banner on some unspecified page, that no-one's ever gonna see anyway. Clearly he's going to be making money from this site, as there's some payment system for what content is available, but I'm going to benefit from linking on my front page HOW? I would have run a link from one of my other pages quite happily, but the cheek of this guy... he can go take a hike.
I get this kind of thing quite often and yeash, when are these people gonna realise... when you're the one asking for a link, and have more to gain than the person you're requesting a link from, you're in NO position to go stating terms and/or conditions.
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Steve 1:12 PM [+]
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