LinkTrader Tutorial - Step 3: Checking Mail
Now we have a bit of a waiting game going. You are all set and ready to build your link page, but you must wait for the other link(s) to approve your trade request. This brings us to the Check Mail section.
Take a look in here to see the results of your trade requests. This is where you will go when you log in to LinkTrader from now on in order to keep you informed about your trading. You will be informed of any accepted, rejected or cancelled trades here. It will probably take a day or two to get results from the majority of your requests.
Once you have an accepted trade request, you can go to the Verify Links area.
Here you will select the link account from the drop-down list and your trades for that account will appear listed in the table below.
You will find information about each of the sites in your list of trades just below a brief description of your own link.
A. Manual Verification
Select the Trading Site's Link Page to visit their link page directly. This will open a new browser window and allow you to see what they are doing with your link and all of the other LinkTrader trades they have.
You may also select the Home Page and visit their site. This will tell you if their link page is linked to from their home page. Without the link being here, the value of the trade is diminished as the spiders must search deeper into their site in order to find the link to your site.
B. Automated Verification
The Auto Check will verify that your link is on their page without you having to sort through all of the links on their site. You may select a number of links to check automatically and be presented with information about your link on their page.
You will find out if their page includes the LinkTrader Coding, this tells you if they are posting the page as it comes from the Build Page section of link trader or modifying it to remove defining comments and tags.
You will also learn if they are using a live link to your site or posting your URL as text. Seeing both listed in the check usually indicates a good listing.
The final thing the auto-check tells you is if your link text (the Title of your link) is found properly. The final indication of a good link page.
The information found in this check is a quick indicator of whether the trading site is properly exchanging links.
C. Rate/Report Link
You may, once you verify the links, rate the trade on a scale of one through ten. Ten indicates a reliable trade and has shown integrity and good placement of their links page that holds other quality links. A one indicates someone that should not be part of the LinkTrader community.
Reporting someone involves contacting our LTPD (Link Trader Police Department) for serious offences such as spamming or other abusive actions.
D. Cancelling Trades
The Cancel Trade option will cancel your trade with the other account and your link will not be their page when they rebuild. You might cancel for a consistent lack of adding your link, or a number of other reasons.