sending you a pm shortly steve , hope i can help.
I just don’t get it and prob never will.
had a nice guy just today ask for link exchange. since I”m writing content for his site … I put up his requested link and replied. …. no need to put up mine.
I’ve tried and tried. had very good SEO’ers try to help me … I just don’t get free traffic. do the meta tags thing, have the right headings …. for me …. its a total waste of time and after replying ( a second time to the requester) to say I was sorry if I sounded rude …….. had to get up and walk away from my PC.
I get so damn frustrated with it all. I have literally 100s …. if not 1000s of pages of content and though I used to get a little free traffic …. now I suspect scrapers have stolen that from me because they have more back links and are using my own content against me.
screw it! now I gotta go have a drink and walk away again. man this is a sore subject with me. I offer quality content ….. have tried the trade links shit ….. nothing seems to work.
my hat’s off to those of you who are succeeding .. thus the reason i offered the content in trade for a banner at the bottom. I can write. I can’t seem to SEO.
…….sigh.