I received the following email today:

Subject: Link Exchange Request – Kristi K.
From: “Kristi K. Miller”
Date: Thu, October 13, 2005 10:39 pm
To: [email protected]

Hello,

I have been doing some research on the net and I found your site through Google. I noticed that your site and my site compliment each other fairly well and I was wondering if you do link exchanges?

My web guy has told me that getting reciprocal links is a good way to help with web traffic and to get both of our sites noticed. He told me that I should find complimenting sites and email the webmaster to see if that can be setup.

I am pretty new at this but he gave me some code that I guess you are supposed to paste on your links page. Here is what he gave me:

[a href=”http://www.dui-defense-law.com”]Dui Defense[/a]

If you could provide me with your code I can have him paste it up immediately on my links page.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this link exchange.

Sincerely,

Kristi K. Miller
Marketing Coordinator
[email protected]
~ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them ~

Normally I don't do much with these random link exchange requests, but since my first job ever was copy-coffee-bitch at one of the top DUI defense law firms in the Southeast, I felt like this almost could've been a job I was assigned back when I was a wee 17-year-old lad. I immediately felt it was my duty to send a warm, meaningful reply:

Subject: Re: Link Exchange Request – Kristi K.
From: “Court Sullivan”
Date: Fri, October 14, 2005 12:47 am
To: “Kristi K. Miller”

Kristi,

I find it funny that you emailed ME, the webmaster of a college humor site, to exchange links with a DUI DEFENSE WEBSITE. I'm interested in knowing what sort of “complimentary” aspects you found between our sites. Do you drink and drive as well? I know a lot of us college students do!

Moving along to the actual comparable content of our sites, I was going to compliment you on your site, but it only contains two paragraphs. Unfortunately, we have almost 5 years of daily written content. Since the typing speed of our writers combined hovers just above 3,000 words per minute, at an average of 65 words per paragraph, and a rate of just 15 minutes of writing per day for 344 days a year (3 weeks vacation), PointsinCase.com contains over 1.3 million paragraphs. Normally though, I end up working about 45 minutes per day, so you know, it could be a little higher. Again, I don't see how our content is “complimented” fairly.

But ya know what? Since I'm pretty old at this, and after all, I guess I AM obligated to paste your code up, IT'S A DEAL!

Sincerely,

Court Sullivan, Esq.
Link Exchange Pushover
[email protected]
~Keep the dream alive. Without that effort, nature would not incite others to have notions that dreams come true.~

I certainly hope she'll live up to her end of the bargain! *CROSS YOUR FINGERS FOLKS!*

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