Which quality synergistic sites, like those on our link page, would be
good for submitting a request to link to our site -
http://www.eMachineShop.com - to attract customers. I am seeking a
list of URLs of link submission pages. This question will be posted more than once.

swisscheese-ga,
I will try to provide as many links as I can find, they will be placed
the form
Website Name
URL
Short Description

I hope the following is sufficient:
Name: Metal Suppliers Online Business Procurement Center
URL: http://www.suppliersonline.com/Default.asp
Description: "Metals Suppliers Online is a leading North American
metals supplier. We have been on the Internet for five years now and
have developed a community of over 51,000 metals industry
professionals. Since day one back in 1997, our objective has been to
develop better ways of doing business within the metals industry."

Name: Clayson Steel
URL: http://www.claysonsteel.com/
Description: "Specializing in the supply of steel parts and
components, on a ""just -in-time"" basis to a wide variety of OEM's in
North America. Clayson develops customized supply solutions that meet
the needs of specific clients.  Capabilities include laser cutting, hi
definition plasma cutting, cut to length, shearing, roll forming,
press brake, punching and stamping. ISO9002 Certified."

Name: Greeley Steel
URL: http://www.greeley.ca/
Description: "Full service metal distributor, offering steel,
aluminum, stainless, including HR & CR bars, structurals, sheet,
plate, pipe, tube, rebar, mesh, expanded metal, and grating."

Name: Canada Steel Service Center
URL: http://www.canadasteel.ca/
Description: "Offering a full product line including stainless,
aluminum, cold finished, hot rolled, structural, sheet, specialty bars
4140 & 8620.  Processing and value added services are available.
Canada steel may be a wholesales, yet it appeals to companies of any
size.  We provide our customers with just-in-time (JIT) philosophy.
Customers don't need to stock steel anymore, just call Canada Steel
and receive your order the same or next day...no order is too small. 
Franchising opportunities are also available. "

Name: Blastech Corporation
URL: http://www.blastech.com/
Description: "Abrasive cleaning, corrosion resistant protective
coatings, and metallizing. Blastech provides a prefabrication blasting
and weldable coating system to plate steel know as REDI-Plate TM to
the steel distribution and fabrication market in North America.
Process plate up to 154"" in width in any transportable length.
Weldable primer is applied to one or both sides, reducing the need to
abrasive blast the surface after fabrication. Savings in excess of
$1.00 per SF using the REDI-PLATE TM system. ISO9002 Certified. Plate
management systems ensure correct labeling of each plate after
processing and allows for instant location of any plate during
storage, processing or shipping. "

Name: MetalPrices
URL: http://www.metalprices.com/
Description: Up to date metal prices

Name: Advanced Manufacturing Magazine
URL: http://www.advancedmanufacturing.com/
Description: A magazine devoted to manufacturing processes

Name: Discout Tools
URL: http://www.discount-tools.com/
Description: World-wide supplier of metal-cutting tools and industry
supplies

Name: Business Industrial Network
URL: http://www.bin95.com/
Description: "Business Industrial Network - Eliminates unnecessary
equipment downtime by providing online engineering and maintenance
technical support. Use Problem / Solution Database, submit machine
problem, cost justification, and other resources."

Name: AxSys Incorporated
URL: http://www.axsysinc.com/index.html
Description: "AxSys Incorporated is a provider of ""best in class""
CAD/CAM software solutions. AxSys provides sales, training and support
for Mastercam; Mill, Wire, and Lathe, Delcam; PowerSOLUTION, and
Parametric Technology; Pro/ENGINEER products.  AxSys is also a
supplier of Northwood Designs; MetaCut products and CNC Routers and
software from Techno-Isel."

Name: Steelink
URL: http://www.steelinks.com/
Description: "Steelinks.com features Canada's Metal Industry. The main
goal of steelinks.com is to bring exposure to the Canadian
metalworking, metal supply, metal finishing and machinery industries
and assist Canadian original equipment manufacturers in sourcing their
metal components. "

Name: Machinist Materials
URL: http://www.machinist-materials.com/
Description: "They are dedicated to providing materials to the
machinist, professional, novice and home hobbyist. They locate and
purchase materials that are drops, cut offs, and left-overs from
machine shops and manufacturers. Here you will find materials that
still have machining value and sell at a fraction of retail. "

Name: PLC Center- Industrial Surplus 
URL: http://www.plccenter.com//
Description: "World’s Largest Source for Everything Industrial.
Powered by nearly 25 years of experience from Speck Industrial
Controls, Inc., PlcCenter.com offers a huge online warehouse that
supplies Industrial Surplus, Industrial Repair, MRO and Calibration. "

Name: Industrial Sourcebook
URL: http://www.industrialsourcebook.com/
Description: Your gateway to a new world of online industrial
informati

Name: Metal Suppliers Network Portal
URL: http://www.metal.suppliers.net/
Description: A site connecting various metal suppliers

Name: TAS Online
URL: http://www.tasonline.co.za/
Description: "A new company, TAS Online, has now been formed with the
express purpose of utilizing the latest electronic technology and
making it available to a much wider market in SA. "

Name: Mathematica
URL: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
Description: "From simple calculator operations to large-scale
programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the 
tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering
analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to
graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used."

Name: The Materials Information Society
URL: http://www.asm-intl.org/
Description: "ASM International is a society for materials engineers
and scientists, a worldwide network dedicated to advancing industry,
technology and applications of metals and materials."

Name: PLASPEC Materials Selection Database
URL: http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0321.html
Description: Plastics Information Database

Name: The Robot Store
URL: http://www.robotstore.com/
Description: A dedicated robotics store.

Name: The GoRobotics Network
URL: http://www.gorobotics.net/
Description: A dedicated robotics site/portal

Hope that helps,
Tox-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by swisscheese-ga on 10 Mar 2003 05:57 PST

Hi Tox

Thanks for your attempt on this project. To be honest, I'm not
impressed with the relevance of most of sites although there are a few
possible ones and one good one. I asked for link submission pages but
you did not give the link submission page, presumeably because most of
the sites you found don't have one. My detailed comments are below.

http://www.suppliersonline.com/Default.asp
No link page

http://www.claysonsteel.com/
Competition

http://www.greeley.ca/
No links

http://www.canadasteel.ca/
No links

http://www.blastech.com/
Essentially no relevance and no links

http://www.metalprices.com/
No links

http://www.advancedmanufacturing.com/
Canada only

http://www.discount-tools.com/
Already on our link page

http://www.bin95.com/
Possible

http://www.axsysinc.com/index.html
No link page

http://www.steelinks.com/
Canada only

http://www.machinist-materials.com/
Amateur site and no link page

http://www.plccenter.com
Possible

http://www.industrialsourcebook.com
What does industrial safey have to do with us

http://www.metal.suppliers.net
The parent site is possible

http://www.tasonline.co.za/
No link page and regional

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
I did not find conventional links

http://www.asm-intl.org/
No link page

http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0321.html
Amateur site and no link page

http://www.robotstore.com/
Good

http://www.gorobotics.net/
No link page

Regards, swisscheese

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Clarification of Answer by tox-ga on 10 Mar 2003 10:19 PST

swisscheese-ga,
I'm sorry, I think I misunderstood the question.  Before I go all out
to search for links page, are these the types of links you're looking
for?

http://www.robotstore.com/links.asp
http://www.bin95.com/collaborate.htm
http://www.harveygallery.com/art_links.htm
http://www.cncspares.co.uk/links.htm
http://www.ipmsusa.org/Links/links_frame.htm
http://www.suppliers.net/Portal_Partners/
http://www.metalchic.com/pages/links.htm
http://alloys.industrysearch.com/cgi/www/adv/codes.plx?dbo.AdType=4&all_states=1
http://steel-link.com/2002/Steel-Link/redirsl.cfm?p=Register

Hope these help,
-Tox-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by swisscheese-ga on 10 Mar 2003 11:45 PST

Hi Tox

You are going in the right direction in most cases.

http://www.robotstore.com/links.asp
Yes

http://www.bin95.com/collaborate.htm
Yes, possible

http://www.harveygallery.com/art_links.htm
No but this page might be good:
http://www.harveygallery.com/sculpting_links.htm - I could see a metal
sculptor using us.

http://www.cncspares.co.uk/links.htm
A little off track and UK based but possible.

http://www.ipmsusa.org/Links/links_frame.htm
This is farily good.

http://www.suppliers.net/Portal_Partners/
Parent site is possible.

http://www.metalchic.com/pages/links.htm
I can't see why their visitors would order customer parts.

http://alloys.industrysearch.com/cgi/www/adv/codes.plx?dbo.AdType=4&all_states=1
This is good.

http://steel-link.com/2002/Steel-Link/redirsl.cfm?p=Register
Good.

Regards, swisscheese

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Clarification of Answer by tox-ga on 10 Mar 2003 13:51 PST

swisscheese-ga, 
Excellent, I will have an improved answer back to you soon.
-Tox-ga

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Clarification of Answer by tox-ga on 14 Mar 2003 14:04 PST

swisscheese-ga,

Sorry about the delay.

Name: Innovation First
URL: http://www.innovationfirst.com/FIRSTRobotics/links.htm
Description: A supplier of robotics parts and electronics

Name: US FIRST Robotics Games
URL: http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/gtstart.htm#sponsor
Description: "Although not a true 'links' page, becoming a supplier
for these Robotics Games is definitely synergistic.  Every team will
require metal parts that may be hard to find/make themselves."

Name: Harvey Galleries
URL: http://www.harveygallery.com/sculpting_links.htm
Description: Links to various metal artists.

Name: International Plastic Modelers Society
URL: http://www.ipmsusa.org/Links/links_frame.htm
Description: "As the name implies, a webpage dedicated to plastic
modelers."

Name: Mondo-Tronics Robot Store
URL: http://www.robotstore.com/links.asp
Description: Robotics links

Name: Business Industrial Network
URL: http://www.bin95.com/collaborate.htm
Description: "Network of industrial businesses, which eMachineShop
falls under."

Name: CNC Spares
URL: http://www.cncspares.co.uk/links.htm
Description: Useful as a link in case people cannot find the exact
part they want.

Name: Industry Search
URL: http://alloys.industrysearch.com/cgi/www/adv/codes.plx?dbo.AdType=4&all_states=1
Description: Site linking various industrial sites (specifically
eCommerce sites) together

Name: Steel-Link
URL: http://steel-link.com/2002/Steel-Link/redirsl.cfm?p=Register
Description: Another metal link site

Name: Car-Stuff
URL: http://www.car-stuff.com/carlinks/addlink.htm
Description: "Though looks slightly unprofessional, actually quite a
popular site with a large database of automotive links.  People
looking for custom car parts will find eMachineShop's services
useful."

Name: Auto Parts Online
URL: http://www.autopartsonline.us/addlink.htm
Description: Another popular car parts link site

Name: Direct Car Parts
URL: http://www.directcarparts.co.uk/Links/carsitelinks.htm
Description: Another popular car parts link site

Name: Street Looks
URL: http://www.street-looks.com/other/links.php
Description: "Their small ""Online Parts"" section may be of
interest."

Name: ClassicCar
URL: http://www.classiccar.com/advertising.shtml
Description: "Though not a links page, this may still be of interest. 
Antique car parts will be hard to find on the internet and people may
turn to your custom metal part service. "

Name: CAD-Portal
URL: http://www.cad-portal.com/directory/index.php3
Description: Designer Resource

Name: ProtoCAM
URL: http://www.protocam.com/related_services.html
Description: "CAM/CAD Services, your custom part is complementary to
this service"

Name: Thomas Register
URL: http://www.thomasregister.com/
Description: An industry link site for North America

In addition to these websites, you should also e-mail industrial
designs sites such as:
http://www.coroflot.com/public/main_frame.asp?firm_id=9171
http://www.coroflot.com/public/main_frame.asp?firm_id=20418
http://www.txsdesign.com/
Who could utilize your services in their work.

I hope these help,
-Tox-ga