Link Love, it's a term you hear quite a bit in the blogging world. Your friend sends you an e-mail, "Hey man, give me some link love'. For the most part link love is a positive experience, after all you're giving somebody a link and that's a good thing right? But are there others kinds of links?

Andrea Weckerle and I have come up with some other variations:

Link-Let's-Just-Be-Friends - Somebody you know asks you for a link, you read the post and realize it's not that great so you don't link it.

Link-It's-Over - When you write a critical piece about another person then link their name back to their blog, guaranteeing that they'll find the post you wrote. This also involves dropping that person from your blogroll and RSS reader. Also known as a Link-Dear-John.

Link-Flirtation - When you link to another blogger in hopes that they'll link back to you. So, you blog here often?

Unrequited-Link - When the Link-Flirtation doesn't work and you're left all alone.

Link-Stalker - When you link a whole series of unique words in a sentence to a variety of different posts by the same author. Kind of like this. Serious Link-Stalkers will also link to other media, i.e. Flickr photos, videos, etc.

Link-I'm-Serious-It's-Over - When somebody feebly responds to your Link-It's-Over post you construct a detailed post with numerous links showing off how stupid they are. Also known as Fisking.

Link-Twitter - Rather than linking via your blog, you link in a twitter message, hitting a smaller, but perhaps more targeted audience.

Link-One-Night-Stand - When you get a bizarre link from a blog that doesn't really pertain to your blog, but it generates quite a bit of traffic for you. You often wake the next morning, check your Technorati links and stats and say, ''whoa, what the hell happened last night?"

Link-You-Don't-Call-Anymore - When you link to somebody that you haven't received any link-love from in a while. Sometimes you'll get a link/e-mail back saying, "Hey, I was just thinking about you."

Cheap-Link - When you link to somebody but don't really mean it and don't mention their name.

Dead-Link - Yes, this is a known term, but it still should be included on this list. It's when the item you link to is removed from the web and the link dies.

Link-Whore/Link-Stud - Somebody that constantly develops blog lists and daily link-blogs to generate traffic. Much like life there is a double-standard. Some people that do it are called 'whores' and are chastised while others are 'studs' and get rewarded.

Link-Prostitution - Getting paid to write blog posts with links in them.

Feel free to add your ideas in the comments

Updates:

Link-It's-Not-You-It's-Me - You finally get around to linking to something for a friend and apologize for 'not getting to this'.