I don't need to read the whys, I just want the link

Well, O.K, here it is. Insert this code somewhere the body part of your website and replace username with your username if you wish:

<a href="http://babelport.com/index.php?linked=username">
     <img src="http://babelport.com/media/_img/logo.gif" width="300" height="100" border="0">        
</a>

Why link to us ?

Linking to babelport.com from your own website will help to promote the babelport.com services. Why should you do this? Well, it's quite simple: By promoting the website more freelancing translators / interpreters and translation agencies around the world will get to know babelport.com.

The more agencies register the more projects will be available in the long run. The more projects are available the higher a freelancer's chance to get a project. The more freelancers are registered the more interesting babelport.com becomes to agencies and outsourcers. See? It's as simple as a vicious circle.

I am a freelancer, why should I attract competitors to babelport.com?

If you are a freelancer and you have your own website promoting your service it's more likely that you have translation agencies than competeting freelancers visiting your site, as agencies may look for freelancers on the net, while freelancers rather search for agencies. Thus, by promoting the babelport.com service on your homepage more potential outsourcers will register and provide translation projects. By helping us you can help yourself in the future.

We are an agency, why should we attract competitors or customers to babelport.com?

If you represent a translation agency, you may first consider promoting babelport.com on your website as counterproductive because competeting agencies may get access to your pool of freelancers. But it isn't like that. First, as above, it's more likely that the visitors of your website are freelancers or potential customers, rather than competeting agencies.

Second, by attracting more freelancers to the babelport.com website you extend your own potential freelancer pool. Furthermore, customers visiting your site and considering hiring you will contact you anyways, rather than click further to a different service. But what about those, who come to your website but won't contact you because your specialisation or language combinations do not fit at that point. They will look elsewhere and will check the website of competeting agencies. It's very unlikely that they come back, right?

However, if you can manage to forward them to babelport.com you may have a second and further chances that they will hire your agency. The advantages are: 1.) You know where you find them: at babelport.com 2.) If they found a contractor to take over their initial project, they may post future projects at the babelport.com website as well, leaving you a chance to apply, thus binding new customers. 3.) You create more traffic on babelport.com and, thus, your agency's profile will get more exposure, too, again attracting new customers.

What's babelport.com gain in getting promoted?

First, babelport.com is a community oriented website. That principle works very simple: The more registered users the more interaction between them; the more interaction the more gain for the community. Also, when the total nunmer of registered users rises, the number of projects posted on babelport.com increases, too.

Second, there is a company behind babelport.com. Companies need to make profit, or they die. When companies die, their services will, too. cpi-service, the company behind babelport.com, has spent months of time and amounts of money in the development of babelport.com. Still we will offer most of the services for free, and those services you (will) need to pay for, are very reasonably priced. Thus the profit, if there is one at all, is marginal for cpi-service. We hope to make some profit from selling a minor amount of ads, too. But still, the profits won't make us rich. If, however, we run this service for a while and realize that our costs overwhelm our income, we will need to close babelport.com.

Thus, by promoting our services, you simply save our jobs. By saving our jobs we can and will continue to provide as much service as possible. And we will try to offer most of them free of charge, too.

O.K. I am convinced! How do I link to babelport.com

Linking to babelport.com is simple. You basically have two possibilities to link to our website: