now, here's what gets me stumped: I wrote a few articles for a girlfriend who has a gift basket business. I'm checking about a month later, and I noticed that over 100 sites had linked to one of the articles. Now, I'm thrilled, thinking this girl's going to get a bunch of traffic, but while I go through the list, I notice that several of them are multi-level marketing sites specifically for drop-shipped gift baskets.
I contacted one of them, asking them to take the link off their site. The guy has the brass to reply that he will not do so, as it is also helping my site to be linked.
Call me crazy, but that sounds like a load of nonsense to me. How is linking to someone who is technically a competitor good for me? I can understand if it's on e-zines and someone links to it, but seriously!
I also had a problem with people like car insurance companies linking to the site. Tell me: How does "Do YOU Suffer from Giftophobia" in any way, shape, or form relate to the gift basket industry?
I felt so bad for my friend. She had all these *ssholes linking to her because of this (dare I say, kick-*ss) article, she was looking forward to increased traffic, perhaps a few orders, and nothing!
If someone could help me understand this, I'd be eternally grateful.
God Bless.
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