Happy New Year Members,

I have a new Yahoo! store that I just opened for business a couple of weeks ago. And Yahoo makes creating a link very simple through their store manager page for your store. All you have to do is type in a url of a site to create a link to, and click, you've got a link.

But I have no idea how to approach a web master to ask permission to link to their site as of yet, and I would imagine that not too many would be interested in linking to a new site with only 980 visits to date. For this reason, I'm feeling reluctant to approach them. Perhaps I'm too chicken to hear "no".

Anyway, I visited a few link exchange websites hoping that I could build some links more easily that way than sending email request to individual web masters. But with these sites, "Link Market" for instance, they say that I have to create a link page. Huh? And, I have to paste in some code. And with "Link Dash", they talk about web addresses ending in php. Huh?

I have no idea what they mean. I mean, I understand pasting code, but paste it where? And create a link page? What page? Isn't my homepage a link page? I don't understand. Also, they talk about your web server. I don't have any web server.

If anyone has used a link exchange service or any other method of linking to other websites, please explain to me how you did it. I don't want to do it the Yahoo way because I don't have any websites with the okay to link to.

I've been thinking about going to a school and paying a student to come to my house and demonstrate how to link to another website. Does anyone think that would be a good idea?

All responses will be deeply appreciated.


Thanks