I used to own and run two popular travel sites and have been contacted by a third party to place Expedia links for under $400/year on both sites. Even though t

I used to own and run two popular travel sites and have been contacted by a third party to place Expedia links for under $400/year on both sites. Even though the third party had nothing to do with Expedia (besides emailing me the particular anchor text and URL), the fact that I was only ever contacted to put Expedia links and no other sites in the 5 years I've been running them made me think that they were Expedia shills. (this is obviously a throw away account)