ok i don’t mind people buying links … but when www.davidnaylor.co.uk gets the following email days after Matt Cutts says Selling links and be dammed

Hi There

I would like to sponsor a post or a few on your blog. We represent several large companies so the post and link will be to a company that you are most probably very familiar with and is highly reputable.

Essentially, what we would like is a positive or neutrally framed review with a couple of inline text links; one to the home page and one to a specific product page.

I like the fact the unlike many sites your site is not being overly monetised with adverts but rather offers good commentary.

If you agree in principle, we will provide you with the details of potential clients for your reassurance as well as a short brief in order to make it easy as possible for you to comment – and of course payment. Paypal is probably the easiest option as I can do that immediately.

Our standard rates for each paid review is as follows:

• Post on pages with PR 6 – £12.50 / $25
• Post on pages with PR 5 – £8 / $16
• Post on pages with PR 4 – £5.50 / $11
• Post on pages with PR 3 – £3.50 / $7
• Post on pages with PR 0-2 (sorry, not eligible for payment on this project)

As mentioned, we represent several clients that would be keen to have you review and make honest comment on articles, resources and tools on their sites. I am hoping to establish a few exclusive relationships with bloggers like you that I have already worked with and can call on if you are interested. If you know of any other bloggers with good blogs, please feel free to put them in touch with me also.

Please let me know if you have other sites you are also interested in linking to our clients from.

Kind Regards

well that’s just taking the piss, Maybe I will call them

DaveN