It's difficult to work out but i'll have a read and thanks for the link.
Obviously without any backlinks you won't get indexed or any rankings in the SERPs and again on a link list it's a traffic trade.
I know people linking to you in a blog for example where they might be discussing your site is better but how would anyone get any kind of ranking if they didn't link exchange?
And with that, what would be the point in having web directories and LL.
Confusion anyone?
