SEO Losers

Please, please, please try to get the recipient’s name correct when requesting a link exchange. Especially if you’re going to include the letters SEO in your job title.

Hello Orders,

I’ve visited ******* today, and really like it. I run a site similar to yours, and I was wondering if you would like to trade links with me? You can see my site at **********

I will give your site a prominent listing on my page at ***********
, if you link back to my site.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Best regards,

*******
****** ***** - SEO
********

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Sensis is a search engine owned by the Australian telco Telstra. As far as I can tell it was meant to be a Google killer for the Australian market. However, after an initial burst of traffic, I’m now seeing referrers from sensis.com.au trickling down to virtually nothing. Here is an example from one of our sites. The site has about 2000 unique visits per day and ranks well in the Sensis SERPS for our main keywords.

The other main Australian search engine, Web wombat, doesn’t fair much better. As much as I’d like to support the local search engines, I currently can’t see my businesses getting any real benefits from these search engines.