My links are hosted on site.
If requested, I have a links page done by hand, also. It’s a PR4 page ( http://www.casinogeek.net/gamblinglinks.html )
All are straight html.
The linksmanager driven links pages are only a 3 now IF they are on the first page of a category – I would be very interested in finding a way to have all the links pages uniformly ranked without having a link to every link page from every site page!
On my new site, pokerbaron.com, I’m doing all the links by hand. First come, first serve. I don’t intend to put hundreds of links up, just some good quality linking – not necessarily good PR, but good content sites for visitors to use.
I agree with you, EMG35, if I have to search for 15 minutes for my link on a page, I’ll just forgo that and take out their link. It isn’t worth the time.