grandmac - 9:10 am on Dec 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

I just changed to an automated system for adding and checking backlinks on my web site. I had page ranks of 5 on the 4 old resource pages I had and then the first page went down to a 4. I could not figure out why. That is when I automated as I just could not keep up with link exchange requests.

I discovered upon the system checking that more than 30% of the sites were no longer linking to me. This fits into what I have read here in this thread. That is a big percentage not to still be linking to me. and no wonder my PR went down on the old first link page.
I am trying to get the percentage back up but it is taking time as I have to find a current email addresses for the web sites.

The other thing I have done since the link pages are categorized to help the new pages obtain page rank is to have a link to every category page on the bottom of the home page. Maybe I need to add that to all pages. I know the pages are now indexed by Google but the page rank has not been updated.

I had no clue about a lot of the tricks listed on this thread that web masters could do. I realize that probably some of those I have linked with have used these things. I know some are blocked from being checked for reciprical links by the automated system.
Thanks for all the info and it looks like I may have rambled on a bit much. :-)
Carol