I think you completely missed my points.
I wasn’t refering to climbing the google PR rank – but to the idea of sharing. Seems once people are successful, they tend to forget how they got there partially on the backs of successful webpages, and don’t help out the little guys now. The “I’ve got mine, Jack” mentality.
Why we want some good links with a high ranked page ? To help keywords out – providing you use your keywords on the links.
The primary reason to do a good job linking is so that your keywords are picked up, as far as I can see.
A good example of how this works is to type “miserable failure” into the google search and see what comes up. :bigsmile:
By the way, without being asked I put a few CAP members’ pages on my hand-make links page (those sites that were already in my linksmanager listing whose name i did recognize as a CAP member), as a show of community spirit.
The gist of my idea about sharing traffic wasn’t about bouncing visitors back and forth as in a redirect, but doing it the way the the big ones – meister, got2bet, winnersonline and the wiz do it. They are crosslinked with each other. This sends traffic back and forth, as well as strengthening their branded names in the industry.