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                          An Open Letter to Marlene

> **From:** Marlene Bender <[email protected]>
> **To:** [email protected]
> **Subject:** Link exchange with your site http://boston.conman.org
> **Date:** Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:14:22 -0500
>
> Dear Webmaster,
>
> My name is Marlene Bender, and I run the web site Work at Home Ideas and
> Opportunities:
>
> http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX/
>
> I recently found your site http://boston.conman.org and am very interested
> in exchanging links. I've gone ahead and posted a link to your site, on
> this page:
>
> http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/resources_business_2.html[that's the wrong page, it's
> actually on http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/resources_business_**4**.html but who cares?]
>
> As you know, reciprocal linking benefits both of us by raising our search
> rankings and generating more traffic to both of our sites. Please post a
> link to my site as follows:
>
> **Title:** Work at Home Ideas and Opportunities
> **URL (Uniform Resource Locator):** http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX/
> **Description:** Work at home ideas and opportunities
>
> Once you've posted the link, let me know the URL of the page that it's on,
> by entering it in this form:
>
> http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> You can also use that form to make changes to the text of the link to your
> site, if you'd like.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Marlene Bender
>

Dear Marlene,

I may call you Marlene, right? Okay.

Dear Marlene,

Thank you so much for your email. But i seriously have to wonder what you are
thinking to include me on a site about at-home businesses when I don't have
an at-home business. Nor do I have any real insight into making tons of money
(much to the consternation of my Dad). I mean, I've only made $3.03 from
Google AdSense [1]; I'm not giving up my day job any time soon.

Besides, this is a blatent attempt to raise your own PageRank [2]™ value
(which is currently at zero I see) by getting me (who has a PageRank™ of five
for The Boston Diaries [3]) to link to you. Normally I'm not stingy with the
links, but for this? Especially when you can't even send me the proper link?

Hah!

Oops. I meant—

Sorry, but I'll decline linking to you.

[1] https://www.google.com/adsense/
[2] http://www.google.com/technology/
[3] https://boston.conman.org/

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