reciprocal linking request
sample email

Subject: [Webmasters Name], Link Exchange Request from [Your Name]

[Webmasters Name],

My name is [Your Name] and I'm contacting you after visiting your [Webmasters Site Name] site at [Webmasters URL]

You have (say something about their content - products, information, articles, resources) that I think would be of great value to my site visitors at [Your site URL]. Your ( name a product section, article or resource ) at [Location URL] was particularly interesting.

I have placed a link to your site at : [URL of location of webmasters link on your site] with the following URL title and description:

[Webmasters Site URL]
[Webmasters Link Title]
[Webmasters Link Description]

My site at [Your Site URL] is (say something about your site as to why you think the webmaster should give you a link. Avoid things like improving rank, mutually beneficial, increasing links etc ).

If you would like to provide a link to my site could you please use the following:

[Your Site URL]
[Your Link Title]
[Your Link Description]

If you do provide a link back to my site it would help me greatly if you could advise the URL of the page on which my link can be found.

Please let me know if you require further information before reviewing my linking request.

Many thanks for your consideration

[Your Name]
{Your Email Address]
[Your Site URL]

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