Excellent reply! Thanks so much.
I had previously created a link page specifically designed with no redirect and formated how I like it with CSS. However, I liked the features of this link exchange ‘component’, so I went with that.
I like the way you explained the deep linking. I can specify how many links I have on one page and I plan on having 50 per page with no more than 50 total reciprocals.
I will purchase other links that I want to the site and have already used some of my other sites to link to it as well.
As far as the hard to read text, I will probably change much of the text coloring to black instead of the dark grey. This should make it easier to read. If that doesn’t work well, I will have to consider a slight re-design with a white background for the middle area.