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Some people like to include a graphic either banner or screenshot that references the target site. There are all sorts of ways to design a links page. Make sure the decisions you make when designing your page are for the benefit of your end users.
A good looking links page has fringe benefits.. webmasters who see it might think they can get you to link to them if they will link to you. Just by publishing a links page, you will find you receive link requests more often than if you did not publish a links page. You might get junk link requests.. that will happen and you can simply ignore those or toss them as they come in.
You don't even need a links page. They are obsolete in this day and age.
I respectfully disagree. Quality exit links serve as another method for publishing useful content for the visitors coming to your website. When you publish exit links to other resources related to your own site, you help users learn more about your product/service/information by linking them to additional resources related to your own.
And by adding valuable resources to your site, you give your website visitors another reason to return to your site.
Link development has so many residual factors. Linking is what makes the web a web so I don't see it ever being "obsolete".
I think you can argue that some specific link development methods (such as FFAs) are "absolete" since they dont typically benefit the end user. But publishing a quality links page helps your end users continue their knowledge transfer. If a method benefits the end user, I dont see it ever being "obsolete".
