... traffic isby making the search engines think we are good because of allthe links to us. We are hoping that will rank us higher in thosesearch engines. All the SEO companies want to help us be on theFIRST PAGE of Google. Well with the billions of websites now andall the keywords maxed out - can we all be on the first orsecond page? Of course not! So, how much does it really matterwhere you rank in Google? Let me give you an example provided byDavid Notestine from Zeus link ma...

...nagement programming. He willprovide server logs to back up stats that show: - they get6000000 hits per month for Zeus - about 20 of those hits arefrom search engines - about 3 percent result from paid adwords(not profitable he says) - the remainder are from hits fromlinks on other websites What should we really expect from ourlinking strategy. Let's get hits from links on other sites.Forget that other stuff about pleasing the Google Gods! So whydon't we all help each other with good linking practices? If youare going to link to me so that others can find my site, why inthe hell don't you make it easy for those visitors to go fromyour home page to your link index? WHERE IS THE DAM Text toclick on for links? If I can't find it to verify my link, then Iknow damn well that your site visitors won't find it or evenlook for it if it's that hard to find. As you can see, thisreally irks me. Secondly, for your link site to be useful to me,visitors need to find me or my product in that huge directorythat we all are trying to develop. The best way to make it easyfor searchers to find a link to a website or product is with a"search utility" installed and kept current on the page of thatbig link directory. Visitors can then search for a product, nameor contact and get easy and immediate results. The difference wesee here is that a few little things like this will make linkingwork the way it should for ALL of us and not for just ten ortwenty websites!