martinibuster - 8:49 pm on Sep 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hey Soapy, that's a conundrum that Google faces, too. Anything you do to influence ranking is going to be spam, and that includes reciprocal links. The claim by those who say they do it for the traffic is weak, imo. It's generally for the search engine rankings.

However it seems to me that the egregious rank manipulators who attach huge multi-category reciprocal link directories to their websites are the ones that piss off the search engineers most of all. One of them told me he saw no basic use for that except for rank manipulation.

As far as ye olde basic recip campaign, that still seems to work.