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[walrus]

Originally Posted by Preacher

The more important question is what will I gain from these hardlink -- read non-organic links-- trades.... that's the tough one. It is my theory that based on current se algorithms and reported reciprical trade penalties, I don't think 'hardlink trades' can be looked at as search engine boosters any longer. I would look at the traffic of the place you plan on linking to and treat it as a traffic trade. The unfortunate thing about this is that it makes submitting to more high trafficed blog listing sites more valuable then merely a link trade with a partner blog. I say that is unfortunate, because I would much rather link to a fellow blogger then to blog hub/index/link dump etc...

Mind you that's not going to stop me from linking to my fellow bloggers, and this of course is just a theory.

I pretty much agree with your theory which is why I think the pingback topic is a good and timely one. Trackbacks / pingbacks and comments are organic links and thus much more valuable than link exchanges and although grandmascrotum may be having some type of problem with her little group, I think doing something like that is becoming more important, long run.

I personally think the problem she is having is that it is scheduled and not random. In other words, Google is able to see a pattern to it and if nothing else begins to wonder about it.

But then again, thats just my opinion and we all know how much opinions are worth!!!