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ecchi · 2007-08-25, 04:15 AM

It depends on how it is asked, and if it looks like a form letter that they have sent in the thousands.

Also I expect them to have looked at my site and be asking like-for-like. For example, if someone with a new PR-0 site emails me asking for an exchange with my long established PR-6 site, then I get pissed off. Although I don't mind if they have a PR-6 site and want to exchange traffic with one of my (many) PR-0. sites.

Also I get a bit annoyed when I get a request specifying a certain trade minimum (100+, 1000+ etc). If you are asking for a trade, then you are asking for what I am prepared to give you, and saying you want AT LEAST (X) TRADES a day is just being an asshole.

And I do mostly tend to be niche specific. EG., if you want to trade with one of my lesbian sites, I expect lesbian traffic in exchange, so will be pissed off if I got an unsolicited email asking for trade with a BBW site. Even if you trade with my multi-niche sites, I now tend to have a different page for each niche, and would expect the trades to either be from a site that specialised in that niche, or from a page that specialised in that niche.

Just my opinion, I doubt if I am on your list of people to ask for trades, since I don't actually do single page multi-niche TGPs like yours anymore because although they are easy to get traffic for, they are difficult to make sales from (my last one closed when a dishonest domain register took my money but did not renew the domain).

2007-08-25, 04:15 AM	#2
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	It depends on how it is asked, and if it looks like a form letter that they have sent in the thousands. Also I expect them to have looked at my site and be asking like-for-like. For example, if someone with a new PR-0 site emails me asking for an exchange with my long established PR-6 site, then I get pissed off. Although I don't mind if they have a PR-6 site and want to exchange traffic with one of my (many) PR-0. sites. Also I get a bit annoyed when I get a request specifying a certain trade minimum (100+, 1000+ etc). If you are asking for a trade, then you are asking for what I am prepared to give you, and saying you want AT LEAST (X) TRADES a day is just being an asshole. And I do mostly tend to be niche specific. EG., if you want to trade with one of my lesbian sites, I expect lesbian traffic in exchange, so will be pissed off if I got an unsolicited email asking for trade with a BBW site. Even if you trade with my multi-niche sites, I now tend to have a different page for each niche, and would expect the trades to either be from a site that specialised in that niche, or from a page that specialised in that niche. Just my opinion, I doubt if I am on your list of people to ask for trades, since I don't actually do single page multi-niche TGPs like yours anymore because although they are easy to get traffic for, they are difficult to make sales from (my last one closed when a dishonest domain register took my money but did not renew the domain).