diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/link/__init__.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/link/__init__.py
index e80b20122..13ec4243d 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/link/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/link/__init__.py
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ class Link(object):
     Link objects represent an extracted link by the LinkExtractor.
     At the moment, it contains just the url and link text.
     """
+
+    __slots__ = 'url', 'text'
+
     def __init__(self, url, text=''):
         self.url = url
         self.text = text