Cream of the Crap

[SlotsWizard]

I get quite a few requests from other webmasters who ask for link exchanges, which is a pretty silly request by itself. My philosophy is, if you like a site, link to it. Don't force the other guy to link to you first.

Anyway, I received two such requests yesterday, both of which I found unusually amusing. Names and domains have been changed to protect the unfortunate. The parts in bold are those which I enjoyed most:

Hi There,

This is [name] from [website].com.

We are continously working to build new relationships and had been successful till an extent.

I have a purposeful idea which most certainly would help both of us to accelerate our sites. It would be great to know if you are interested in discussing the business opportunities I have in mind.

Looking forward to hear from you!

But the best request I have ever received was this one:

Hello Sir,
This is [name] from [website].com. I have a profound interest about online poking game and while craving for such resources I found your site from Google. I am very satisfied with wide range of your poker strategy guides and analysis. We at [website].com are in the process of establishing link partnerships with quality websites pertaining to online poker resources. Kindly check out our site and let me know if we could be listed at your links page.

Our link info:
Title - [keyword-rich anchor text]
URL - [website].com
Description: - [ad copy]

We would be happy to reciprocate at [lengthy URL, complete with querystring, which nobody would ever visit]

NOTE: This is one time mailer and please do not consider as SPAM in any case. If you have any objections please reply me back and we will not send you further emails regarding Link Exchanges

The Babelfish certainly got its exercise yesterday.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go play an online poking game.