You can imagine with all the website marketing campaigns that we manage, we get hammered for link requests.
This has got be one of my all time favorites, and a good reason that many people like myself do not take automated requests for reciprocal link trades seriously.
Pre-suspension notice! (Comment: Wow! How personal and inviting)
Please verify that my link http://www.xyz.net (url deleted to protect the guilty) is current on you link http:// (Comment: this is exactly what url the letter gave me)
Our scheduled routine checking has reported that the above mentioned url does not contain our link.
Please Check the url, If it is found missing next time we may suspend your link.
Best regards
admin
I will get right on that Mr. Admin. My website at http://
will not be the same without your link! :-)
I just recently got a threatening letter from someone who said I copied their content and placed it as a blog post. Only problem was he never looked at the post to verify what his automated service told him. He decided to trust the machine instead of his eyes.
I kindly replied I would be glad to delete it or give credit to him if he would just tell me what I said that was his. He wrote back and actually did apologize stating that it was not my post, instead it was the comments that were taken from his material and the commenter had his permission. This could have saved us both some time if he just would have looked first before sending out a threatening letter.
Automation is good but let's not let it replace common sense. This guy trusted automation over himself, and then communicated with me as if I was a machine. That's what can happen when we give up on the best machine we have. The Common Sense between our ears.
Anyone care to share their own silly experiences that you have experienced whilst managing your campaigns?
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