I hear the Podium Cafe has this nice list of “Why Not Me” articles you could link to that discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the top riders. Leverage the knowledge of cycling fans – and its pretty cool too.

…which was sort of, but not entirely, like this:

Hello,

My name is Annie Simanski . I was surfing through DMOZ and came across your site podiumcafe.com. I would like to add your site to a category specific page on our site universalsports.com

As you know, exchanging links will benefit both of us by raising our search engine rankings and generating more traffic to both of our sites. Best of all it’s FREE; there is no cost or hidden fee. We simply ask for a link back from the home or an internal page of your site. Simple enough, don’t you think?

I hope you’re interested because we have other quality linking opportunities to offer. If you are, please reply to this email with your link details and the URL of your links page.

Once I hear back from you with the information above, I’ll send you a reply regarding our link details.

I look forward to your response.

Best wishes,
Annie Simanski

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PLEASE NOTE:

This email was manually sent by me, it is not spam.

Our sole purpose is to introduce ourselves to you with no obligation on your part. We consider this to be a polite way to contact you and apologize sincerely if you have been inconvenienced in any way.

“and apologize sincerely if you have been inconvenienced in any way”.

In other words, if you take offense, it’s your fault, but we’ll offer a grudging apology anyway. even though we were totally polite and stuff.