Link Generating Software - Is It Worth Using?

Web-marketing experts constantly use a wide range of software programs to ease and automate their work. Various tools for links generating hold a significant part of these programs. Most of them just automatically reproduce the following actions. A program looks for the results of a search engine for a keyword that you choose, visits all of them, searches for owners’ emails through the HTML-code, and then writes a message asking them for a link to your website.

You may have met this kind of programs. If you have ever found an email starting with something like…

Hi there,
I have accidentally found your site. It is awesome! I think we should exchange links, because it is the best way to…

I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

This kind of software seems to be extremely alluring from the first sight, but it is not. In the end you’ll get at most a couple of links and a ton of spam. Link generating tools are utterly useless. And it is not the matter of incorrect software, but of many apprentices using it with no distinction.

There could be no obvious reason for me to post a link to my site about bee breeding, if I accidentally ran an article about honey gathering. Link generators have never been useful and now they become a real disaster. If you have an option it does not mean you should take it up —an old adage says.

You should personally select all the sites you want to get a link from. I can assure you that I delete all emails that seem to be sent by an automated program straight away.

A link that you would get with these tools will be as unavailing as the software itself. It is offensive to declare you visited my site if you did not. You have never even taken a look at it; you have just sent a soulless program.

  1. If you had visited my site you would have written my name in your email.
  2. If you had visited my site you would have been aware that I have no links page at all.
  3. If you had visited my site you would have not sent the same email to all 5 addresses that your program had found on my website, including the abuse one, but only one.

Nevertheless, if you use one of these tools, spent at least some hours on visiting the sites you are asking for a link from. Look for the main email address, the owner’s name. Compose a message that would convince them that you saw their sites, explicate the idea of link exchanging, or, in case they already have a links page, show that you have seen it. A phone-talk suggestion could also help.

It seems to be a great deal, but is worth doing. You should aim at removing all doubts in their minds. They should be aware you are a real visitor who has been to their websites. 10 targeted appraised links instead of 100 waste links a day will bring much more benefit.

When <company name> released a website about <website theme>, I personally opened a search engine website, looked for the pages about <website theme>, picked up some that were really great and sent a personal email to the owner of every site, introducing myself and asking for the link exchange for <company name> website. Absolutely all of them posted the link.