Well, blame my mainstream SEO background (was doing mainstream long before I started adult, and mainstream is still my main focus), but I always look at anything I do in adult through my SEO link exchange filter too. For me this is a link exchange essentially. Both sides aren't equal here, I do realize that I bring in a (usually) non-indexed page with no PR. But, as with all link exchanges I look at the PR a few months down the road (just like I will look at any link trade - I never trade based on current PR alone).
Anyway, don't have time to go into this in length, but this isn't just a traffic trade to me, it's a link exchange. I already give out two links in exchange for one, and my links are from a page with 20 outgoing links on it max, while the ones I get are from pages with hundreds of links.
Now, as long as we're talking a link partner that has established pages, and does indeed throw in a lucrative traffic trade, I'm happy with that. But what I don't like as much is link partners that simply take my link off their page after a while. I also don't like exchanging links with LL's that are small, don't bring in the added traffic value and still require two links from a page with few outgoing links in return for one from a page with hundreds of outgoing links.
Now, please don't get angry at this post. As I said this must be my mainstream "training" speaking here. And I do most certainly agree with what is always said here, nobody is forcing me to do this - if I think I get screwed by some process, I shouldn't be submitting. Hence, I wish to keep submitting to linklists that either keep my links up forever, and actually add a substantive traffic bonus along with the link exchange. Just my personal choice
As for smaller LL's, if anyone here has a list that keeps links forever, and requires just one backlink in return for a listing, please do PM me - I am certainly looking for those.
Please take my post here in the spirit it is given. This is NOT a rant about LL's and their practices. I am still a cheerful submitter lol, just explaining my own weird preferences in choosing LL's to submit to
