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Very interesting read samandian. It's always great to read about other peoples experience.
I think that you are doing the right thing. You are experimenting with different stuff.
You probably have read abouth how some things work for some webmasters and for some just don't. This is something I've been reading since last century. It's a general rule.
Things changed over the years. Experimenting seven years ago produced almost immediate results. Today it takes much more time to draw useful conclusions. You need to experiment more and be very patient.
Try everything you can possibly squeeze in your schedule. Don't change things that work.
I don't own a TGP so I can't tell you about trade ratios.
It is quite normal to have free sites listed long after submissions. Some people have huge submission backlogs.
Blog traffic is more productve then LL traffic in my case. On the other hand, it's much harder to drive decent amount SE and aggregator traffic to blogs. Check out blog forum on GG&J to get more info.
As for search engine "helpers", I believe they are pretty useless. SEs do their thing and there is little we can do about it.
Just keep working!
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