Birdman - 2:46 pm on Apr 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

This is one super thread! Great job Paynt, I should have been following your forum more from the start but I've spent most of my year's time here in HTML, PHP and Google.

I was talking to a recent link partner and she asked me to give some tips to help her increase traffic. Rather than just shoot off an email, I decided I would write an article(or at least try) about increasing traffic to your website.

One sub-topic of the article(not nearly finished), of course dealt with reciprocal linking strategies and as I wrote it, it dawned on me that my linking strategy needs to be optimized, as well.

One thing that has always bothered about my method is that it was very hard keeping track of partners and possible partners.

So as I wrote, I started thinking I should build a database for link partners of all sites I deal with and this way I could keep detailed records of:

• Web sites I link to
  
• Web sites I have already asked
  
• Web sites I want to link to
  
• Which web site(s) I link to them from
  
• PR of both pages
  
• Number of links per page
  
• Incoming and outgoing hits(if applicable)
  
• Each web site's link info
  
• I'm sure there's more, but you get the idea