Ahmed contacted me and pointed out a quick article on SEO Black Hat which shows some examples of link requests that work.

Hey man, looked at your wordpress code/html noticed the structure isn’t completely optimized, would you be interested in having it optimized in exchange for a link back to my site? maybe a post?

for instance, there’s random header tags in the menu which you probably don’t want.

I wrote a guide last week about it….
http://www.mytypes.com/seoblogtemplates/wordpress-seo-guide/

Maybe you don’t care, heh, but worth a try

thanks

They don’t follow the advice that he gave earlier, but they still work, and I think that people really need to work on their link request e-mails as many of the ones I have received were absolutely horrible, and a bit spammy.

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