I must say I found this one to be rather unusual. It appears to be a variation on the "paid post" or "paid review" theme - except the requester writes the content rather than paying the webmaster to write content linking to the requester's site.

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I run a website also, and would like to see if there are ways we can work together to benefit both our businesses. As I am sure you have found, reciprocal links have very little value these days – getting ahead on the search engines relies on two factors…read more »