They Said The Media Picture Is Changing...

I was contacted today by a marketing company who emailed the following:

"While browsing the net, your web-site grabbed my attention and I think that
the content will be of great interest for the visitors of my client's site.

I believe that any car owner should consider arranging car insurance from a
reputable company and feel that your web-site would be a great resource.

My name is [name removed] and I am currently working on behalf of [a
household name company], who have just launched their new web-site [link
removed].

If you have the time, please take a look at the web-site's new
content and design - if you think it would be interesting for the visitors of
your web-site, please feel free to include my client's web-site in the list of
links on your site. If interested; you may use the details as below:

blah blah blah".

The interesting thing about this, is that he's offered no incentive. No affiliate program. Not even a paid insertion.

Because the company is a household name, he expects that I'll come running to place a link to his client's site and be grateful for the privilege!

The email is an embarrassment in terms of grammar and context. If I was this particular client (bearing in mind their standing), I would be embarrassed to have this clown working on my account.

I visited the marketing company's web site. It says, "The media picture is changing - are you changing too?"

Yes I am thank you, I am getting greedier and more selfish and I don't fall for arrogant idiots who think I would believe that they were just "browsing the net" and happened to come across my site.

Of course, what's really happened is that they've done what REAL Internet Marketers have known about and been doing for several years. Seeking good quality back links.

Pretty innovative approach huh?

I guess he just used software to go link hunting. I have some of that.

The only one I use and recommend now is Internet Business Promoter as it's head and shoulders above the rest and really does work. That's an affiliate link by the way, in case you wondered.

I could have plugged SEO Elite instead, as I own a copy of that too, but since it hasn't worked properly for several months and I can't a useful response to my support tickets, I decided to drop it in favour of something much better and reliable.