sick of these emails

[giftsofblessings]

I requested a link exchange with a site through linkpartners and after a couple of months I temp-removed the link and this is the email I got from the other site:
Dear Betty Evans,
I'm terribly sorry but you have placed a link to www.sgallery.net without
following some of our rules which can be found below. In this case
rules 4 and 8 were not conformed to.
Even DO NOT bother to email us for link exchange if:
1. - You have not already added our link in your web site.
2. - The links page that you have added our link is not detectable through
visible text links from your web site home page.
3. - Your links page is database driven (dynamic).
4. - Your web site pages specially home page and the links page that you
have added our link are made with frames.
5. - You use automatic link exchange programs like Zeus.
6. - Site must have less than 100 websites links included in the total link
pages.
7. - In your link you do not use our keywords (which actually is site's
name). Words like 'sGALLERY' or just 'Art Gallery' are absolutely useless to
us.
8. - The links page that you have placed our link doesn't have a Page Rank
in Google.


I get these emails often. How are we to know they have rules? I do visit all sites prior to request but I dont go through their site for the exchange and often these "rules" dont show until you click the exchange process on their site. Their site isnt even ranked on the google ranking...I checked and I tried to email them to say I was sorry I didnt know about the "rules" but as you can guess...incorrect email. I wish linkpartners would do an auto check of our emails more than just at sign up so some of the bad addys would be avoided. Thanks for letting me vent...if anyone can tell me how you avoid these types of sites and still use linkpartners please do.

[Phil Staff]

Thank you for posting this subject in the forum.

LinkPartners does manually review every site that is submitted. Additionally they periodically review sites for compliance with their terms and conditions. We do have a system in place to check for bad email addresses. We test the address when they sign up and if they change their account email address we test that also. We also rely on other LinkPartners members for policing other users.

Any time someone thinks another site is not providing everyone relevant with a chance to link to them you should report their link. If you find a bad email address please also report that. You can either use the 'Report Link' next to their LinkPartner listing or open a LinksManager HelpDesk ticket and we will investigate any issues.

The site mentioned in this thread has been removed from the LinkPartners database. It is very tough to avoid these types of situations as we cannot review every site multiple times and some webmasters are very good at trying to take advantage of others.

There may be no way to 'prevent' this from occurring; however, I can assure you that any site that is reported is investigated and proper action will be taken immediately.

Thank you again for your comments giftsofblessings and feel free to vent at any time as it allows other users to see what kinds of things they will run into and whether or not to consider these sites.

Phil