Day 95

Visitor count to my home page: 24,496

One link exchange accepted today :)
Mountain Valley Center at mountainvalleycenter.com - Specializing in Unique Gifts and Services for well being including chakra gemstones, singing bowls, energy & sound healing, fountains, labyrinths, Feng Shui products and Energy SourceBook Workshops. An excellent holistic health site!
Not only did Jill agree to a link with me, but she also became one of my wholesale customers! a real bonus! I wanted incoming links from quality heath sites to bring me holistic health conscious potential customers. I hadn't thought of a link partner being a customer!

I created two new pages in my resource directory today. Instead of just 'weight loss' I now have diets and weight loss software. I think I will likel;y create one more new site in that section for natural weight loss supplements. I have linked to a few man made weight loss supplements in the past. Not so sure I want to do that any more. Here are the new pages:
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/weightlossdiets.htm
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/weightlosssoftware.htm

Todays invites:
Health:
SunRose Aromatics - Aromatherapy products and essential oils
Kundalini Yoga
YogaProps
Yoga Technology
Sacramento Yoga Center
Yoga Chicago
Grace Welch, Master Yogi
Body Tracker - Body fat software
Diet 4U Online

Day 94

Visitor count to my home page: 24,263

Three link exchanges accepted today :)
Building Self Esteem at more-selfesteem.com - Building self esteem and self confidence is very important if you wish to live your life to the full. Self-Improvement should be a lifelong process in my opinion.

Wholesale Diamond Jewelry at philipnoel.com - High quality wholesale diamond jewelry. Engagement rings, wedding bands, bridal sets and eternity bands etc.

The Stretching Handbook at thestretchinghandbook.com - Over 100 unique stretching and flexibility exercises and free information to help you improve your athletic performance, eradicate sports injury and do away with tight, stiff muscles.
So, move up to the top section of my new directory page and get a 'link partner dragon' next to your name!
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/flexibility.htm

Today I added some more pages. I want visitors to my site to be able to find everything they want in the way of alternative health and non-drug non-invasive health care. I think that most people looking for magnetic jewelry will also be interested in other aspects of improving health without dangerous side effects.
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/sportsinjury.htm
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/healthinformation.htm

Todays invites:
Health:
Carbohydrate Counter
Health On the Net Foundation
Stretching & Flexibility Exercises
Sports Injury Clinic

Day 93

Visitor count to my home page: 24,167

One link exchange accepted today :)
Natural Bulk Salts Bath & Body at bulksalts.com - wholesale quality natural bath salts and many other bath products. Your xkin can absorb what is on it so it's not a good idea to put artificial chemicals on your biggest organ - your skin.

I've realised that I should try to finish the structure of my directory because otherwise down the road I will be trying to find the sites that weren't on an exact match page and move them to a page that is just right for them.
I think it would be easier to have the right pages from the start!
So today I created 4 new pages as I came across sites that didn't fit perfectlyonto an existing page but were definately in the alternative medicine field. For instance I didn't even have a page called 'Alternative Medicine before! Some sites are about several forms of alternative medicine, so choosing one of those at random was not so good. Some sites specialize in just one form of alternative maedicine. Then I think they should be on their own page for their particular specialty. Here's the new pages I made:
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/alternativemedicine.htm
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/holisticdentalcare.htm
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/apitherapy.htm
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/organicvitamins.htm


Todays invites:
Health:
Gaspari Nutrition
AmeriPlan Dental Plan
Holistic Dental Association
Apitherapy
Alternative Medicine Foundation
Organic Vitamins
Weight Loss Index - Free guide for weight loss, diet, and fitness

Day 92

Visitor count to my home page: 24.069

One link exchanges accepted today :)
Senior Care Phoenix at visitingvalet.com - This is a site dealing with providing healthcare and care to seniors in their own homes in the Phoenix area. A lot of people who buy my magnetic bracelets are seniors. Magnetic bracelets can give a lot of relief from arthritis pain etc. Also many of my wholesale customers are in areas like phoenix where a high proportion of the population is 55 + years old
I didn't have a directory page where this would fit, so I made a new one at
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/healthcareforseniors.htm

I will be working on this blog a bit more slowly over the next two weeks or so - I'm doing some renovations so the time to do it just isn't there. Once they are over I'll be working hard at it again!

Todays invites:
Health:
Free Weight Loss
Health Runr Performance Diet Software
Weight Loss Association

Day 91

Visitor count to my home page: 23,983

No link exchanges accepted today :(

I've been reorganising my link directory some. Mostly the weight loss pages. Too many links on the main weight loss page. So now I have 10 link partners on weight loss two. I hope I didn't lose one while I was doing this. I have a bad feeling that I did lose one of the Hoodia ones. Hope I'm wrong! I had 4 Hoodia sites I thought. I like Hoodia. It's natural and it does help to stop one feeling hungry.

It's really hard to stay on top of what's happening when you try to do a major project like this Link Exchange. I have an excel sheet with hopefully all the sites in my resource directory and most of the sites that i have looked at recently. I keep a column for status -
p is for partner
a is for invited
x is for i don't want to link with them.

mostly I have stripped off the www from the urls and sorted by the url's alphabetically. Then hopefully I can see if I have already visited an url.

I keep a list of 'new to check' in another spreadsheet then when I'm ready colour the font of those red or blue and add them to the main spreadsheet. Sort by alphabetical order again, delete those that I've already visited, then go visit the coloured ones that are left.

Once those are all visited, then I colour the fonts all black again. Then rinse and repeat.

Todays invites:
Health:
Learning Path Integrated Technique - Reiki
HealingWell.com - Guide to Diseases, Disorders, and Chronic Illness
Women's Health Naturally
Alternative Medicine Network
Tahitian Noni Juice

Day 90

Visitor count to my home page: 23,861

Two link exchanges accepted today :)
Yoga holidays at yogaholidays.net - A listing of yoga retreats and yoga holidays all over the world.

Words of Wisdom 4 U at wow4u.com - Inspirational quotes, quotes by famous people, proverbs, poems, stories and more. Plus a free monthly quote calendar, full of motivational and inspirational quotes

I'm starting to get a lot of these 'canned' link requests:
'I just visited your website http://dragonstonemagnetics.com/ and noticed how great it was, and would really like to trade links with you.
I have already listed the link to your site http://dragonstonemagnetics.com/ to my links directory located here .....'
Or: 'Hi,
We have come across your website: http://dragonstonemagnetics.com/ and feel there is some value in exchanging links with you.
I believe our websites compliment each other well and we are happy to place a link to you from our site.
If you would like to exchange links with us, we would appreciate it if you could place the following link information on your site.
bla bla bla
I have taken the liberty of including a link to you from our site already, the link can be found on the following page: ...'

Now, why can't they just write their own link request letters. I'd rather have bad grammar and bad spelling than the above.
Actually the sites were just about as bad as the e-mails! Non original for sure.

Todays invites:
Health:
Mountain Valley Center - Feng Shui and relaxation products.
The Eating Plan
Diet Riot
Purple Sapphire - Aromatherapy products

Day 89

Visitor count to my home page: 23,648

No link exchanges accepted today :(

I'm going away for the weekend so I won't be able to work on this for 2 or 3 days, so today I spent a long time. I found quite a few sites I'd like to exchange links with.

Todays invites:
Health:
The Vitamins and Nutrition Center
Workouts For You - Online Personal Fitness Training
Natural Health Products Store
Words of Wisdom 4 U
Yoga for the Young at Heart
Yoga Holidays
Articles on how to feel good more often and get more done.
Zafus - Traditional meditation cushions.
Zero Balancing By Dr. Fritz Smith

Day 88

Visitor count to my home page: 23,605

No link exchanges accepted today :(

I re emailed Sari Noni, hopefully at the correct address this time. I pointed out to them that they maybe needed to change a bit of code on their website where the email to request a link exchange was going to someone who has nothing to do with their site now - I'd guess that at sometime she did work for them on link exchange or something.

This is what I got back from the hijacked email:

'I don't do link exchange for Sari Noni, but because

you emailed me so i thought this request is for my

website. Please let me know if you want to exchange

links with us.'

Todays invites:
Health:
Truly Huge Bodybuilding - Free fitness tips.
U.K. Juicers
Valu-Rite Pharmacies
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Day 87

Visitor count to my home page: 23,546

Two link exchanges accepted today :)
Heart Rate Monitors at heartmonitors.com - They specialize in Heart Rate Monitors and Exercise Equipment. All major brands and lots of selection. If you need to know if your training is in the zone, you need to know your heart rate.

Zoo Jewellery at zoojewellery.com - Silver jewellery for men and women. Earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches. You might think that there was an animal connection looking at the name, but no, just good quality silver jewelry.

Yesterday I got a letter looking like an answer to one of my link request letters:
Hello Webmaster,
Thank you for taking interest to our sites.
Your link is placed at
http://www.xyz
http://www.abc
http://www.def
http://www.ghi
It will be online within 2 working days.
Please link back our sites. Here's our sites info.... etc. etc.

Looks good right? Looks like somebody has agreed to a link request I made. I should be very happy!
I went to the first site on the list. I hadn't seen the site before. I clicked on some links. They didn't work. I was stuck on the home page. So I emailed back and told her that none of the links worked on that home page.
I got an answer back. They didn't work in firefox but they did work in Internet explorer. Well, I didn't feel like dealing with that so I let it be and got on with my day.
Today I got another email from her. Again looking like a reply to a link request I made.
Hello,
Thank you for link exchange offer. However, i can't
find my link there.
Please add my link with the following information:
Title: jkl
URL: http://www.jkl
Description: bla bla bla
Please let me know when my link up so that i can add
your link.
Regards,

Well, it was another site I had never seen before! So I checked back. I had made a request on the 3rd of this month to SARI NONI - 100% pure noni juice from wild forests and these answers for 5 other different sites were in response to my email.

I wrote back and told her that I was confused!

Todays invites:
Jewelry:
Premium Pearl

Health:
The Sanctuary, Covent Garden, London
Traditional Tibetan Healing

Day 86

Visitor count to my home page: 23,486

One link exchange accepted today :)
Elara Natural Skin Care at elara-skin-care.com - Natural hand blended skin care products which include anti aging skin care, dry skin care, sensitive skin care and men's skin care.

I placed a long list of potential link titles for anyone who wanted to link to my site. The more I look at other peoples link pages, which I do a lot, the more I realize that there isn't a 'One size fits all' solution for what a link to me from their site should say. For a jewelry site talking about jewelry is appropriate. For a health site talking about the health benefits of magnetic jewelry is more appropriate. And for a wholesale site the fact that wholesale is my main business is what I want to emphasise.

Todays invites:
Health:
Stop Your Pain
Sweetpoison - Aspartame dangers revealed!
Tanja Baumann Fitness consultant and personal fitness trainer

Day 85

Visitor count to my home page: 23,425

Five link exchanges accepted today :)
Skin Disease at skin-disease.org - Dermatology - all about fungal skin infection, virus infections and bacterial infections of the skin. It's your biggerst organ - look after it!

Scottsdale Nutrition Supply at snsupply.com - Vitamins, minerals, weight loss products and sports nutrition. A very good selection of products.

Alternative Medicine Online Vitamin Guide at online-vitamins-guide.com/dietary-cure/dietary.htm - a free information provider for alternative medicine practitioners and consumers.
So, move up to the top section of my directory page and get a 'link partner dragon' next to your name!
dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/vitaminsandminerals.htm

My Celtic Rings mycelticrings.com - Handcrafted unique Celtic engagement, wedding and claddagh rings, bracelets, earrings, and pendants. Old world style jewelry in hallmarked 18K, 14K or Sterling Silver.
Your 'link partner dragon' is at dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/jewelry-celtic.htm

Tempur pedic Mattress at depression-guide.com/tempurpedic-mattresses.htm - Information on Sleep disorders and Tempurpedic Mattress. How the tempur pedic mattress can help you in getting good night sleep. Also the site provides info on various mental health disorders and medication
I had to create a new page for this one - healthy sleep - at dragonstonemagnetics.com/links/healthysleep.htm

It's funny how one can go along getting one person accepting a link in a day, or none at all, for a week or two, and then suddenly everyone wants to trade links! I guess everyone is catching up after the long weekend.

Todays invites:
Jewelry:
Trade Wind Gallery
Rainbow Crystal Shoppe
The Wiresculptress - Cameo jewelry and gemstone jewelry handcrafted In wire
My Celtic Rings - Celtic engagement and wedding rings

Health:
SARI NONI 100% pure noni juice from wild forests
Skin Disease
Nutrition Supply - Weight loss and sports nutrition
South Beach Diet Plan Beginner's Guide
Tempur pedic Mattress
Alternative Medicine Online Vitamin Guide

Day 84

Visitor count to my home page: 23,340

One link exchange accepted today :)
All Natural and Organic Health Products at naturalsunflower.com - A great site with all-natural nutritional supplements, organic lawn and garden products, and high-efficiency home water filters.

I spent a lot of time today looking for link partners. Probably 5 or 6 hours altogether spread over the day. I guess I was inspired by the number of visitors my existing link partners had sent me.
I'm really managing to find a lot of very high quality sites now. But I don't necessarily want to ask all of those for a link exchange. Some of them have their links very much on a back burner. I do want a quality site related to the natural healing, jewelry or wholesale aspects of my own site who is also likely to send me qualified visitors. For that they need to have a well organised link section as I see it. Something set up so that it's easy for people to find what they are looking for.

Todays invites:
Jewelry:
Oneida Medical Jewelry

Health:
Physical Therapy and the Alexander Technique
Nutritional Supplements
Alexander Technique: A guide to the Alexander Technique in West Yorkshire
Raw Food Health
RippleCreek

Day 83

Visitor count to my home page: 23,264

One link exchange accepted today :)
Nothing But Yoga at nothingbutyoga.com - Learn about yoga. Understand the differences between different kinds of yoga. Get all sorts of yoga information.
I'm really pleased about this. I need more links to yoga resources. Yoga fits very well into the philosophy of natural healing that is behind magnetic therapy.

A new month, so time to assess how my link campaign is faring!
I got 773 visits from my link partner links last month. It's getting better! Here's the list of all the ones who gave me two or more visitors.
http://www.walshbrothers.co.uk/links/Wholesalejewellery.html 33
http://www.jewelry-paideia.com/wholesale-jewelry.htm 19
http://www.medicid.com/links.htm 16
http://jewelry.ka-gold-jewelry.com/categories/jewelry.php 7
http://handbagsatwholesale.com/jewelry_link 6
http://www.oscommerce.com/shops/goto,13942 6
http://www.nzjewellery.co.nz/jewellery/linksnz.html 6
http://tandtmn.com/links2.html 5
http://www.onlypunjab.com/fitness/fullstory-insight-fitness+heal... 5
http://tandtmn.tripod.com/links.html 4
http://www.azurecalm.com/links_page.htm 4
http://althealingeric.com/links/alternativemedicine.html 4
http://www.e-jewel.co.il/en/SitePage.aspx 3
http://www.aboutmejewelry.com/Links.htm 3
http://www.wholesale411.com/cgi-bin/core/search.cgi 3
http://tandtmn.com/links.html 3
http://www.linkmarket.net 3
http://www.blogger.com/profile/5374060 3
http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/cgi-bin/ve/proc_hq.pl 3
http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/cgi-bin/ve/proc_hq_sbi.pl 3
http://www.fdpmagnetics.com/index/index17.php 3
http://www.yourdiamondrings.com/general-wholesale-jewelry.html 3
http://www.epbeads.co.uk/links.asp 3
http://www.taijiworld.com/WTBA/health_links.htm 2
http://www.magnetictherapyinfo.com/links.html 2
http://www.raveinfosoft.com/admin/admin.php 2
http://www.celticgiftshop.com/linkadmin/files/Wholesale_Jewelry.... 2
http://www.kimsjewels.com/linksframe.htm 2
http://www.wonderjewels.us/resources/accessories_4.html 2
http://www.livingwithms.co.uk/links_page.html 2
http://www.ecobaby.co.uk/c_jewelry_45.htm 2
http://www.longislandwatch.com/Links.htm 2
http://www.jewelercentral.com/index.php 2
http://www.pageantjewelry.com/links/links-costume-jewelry.html 2
http://www.anaturalperspective.com/home.cfm 2
http://www.beadbijou.com/links-ah.html 2
http://www.paada.com/Other-Antique.htm 2
http://www.magneticmall.com 2
http://www.singingfish.com 2
http://www.zeelver.com/links/wholesalejewelry.shtml 2
http://www.jewelleryshopper.ca/forum/view-profile.asp 2
and just one visitor each from the rest.

Todays invites:
Jewelry:
Headpiece Heaven - Unique bridal tiaras
Vintage Bridal Jewelry for "Something Old"

Health:
Natural Sunflower All Natural and Organic Health Products
Nothing But Yoga
Byron Bay Yoga Retreat
Optimal Health For You