Im going to spend more time writing..

Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Guy Lewis

.. and less time using semi-automated link assistant programs.

I had a mail from Steve pavlina to say I was spamming him. I was shocked since I detest spam as much as the average person but there I was with Steve telling me he had got a couple of mails from me both asking for a link.

As much as Im ambitious I don’t do it by treading on other people’s toes especially when one of the guys that gave me my initial motivation to try some commercial blogging tells me Im spamming him. See Steve’s great article at

Steve Pavlina: Making Money From Your Blog.

So I apologised and went to the suppliers of the application to ask how this could have happened. Their response was that I must have not put a filter on to stop this happening..which I always do, so something else must have gone wrong.

So after that I decided enough was enough, the program I was using wasn’t good enough to stop this duplication of emails happening, and it was also sending mails to site owners who had little to do with my markets so a waste of time all round really.

Nowadays I do some searching and mailing people asking for a link. I get to know a few more people out there and its all quite casual and relaxed. Maybe not the 100 links or so I wanted to achieve, but then Google wouldn’t take kindly to that sort of boost in links so Im happy to move on in a more careful way. At least I tried the other way.

Im thinking the application concerned, which is incidentally made by a bunch of nice guys who do well, so I wont knock their app down in public, well, Im thinking it would be good for tracking link partners, ensuring that the links are still there and keeping and managing a link database of partners.

Sounds good. next week perhaps.