airpal - 3:39 am on Feb 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think your post is very comprehensive and well written, and maybe I'm just analyzing it in the wrong context. My only point is that when you're in an industry that has some cut-throat SERPS, sometimes you have to pull out all the old tricks in the bag (even if it means a combination of paid and recip links) that everyone else who's higher in the SERPS is using, in order to be competitive in the short-term. I still think your new ideas are something every webmaster should dedicate some resources to, with the main goal of gradually gaining long-term SEO benefits.