Hit Counter Hosting

This going to go down like a lead balloon?

[BradH]

Hi

I have a built up a niche link directory up from scratch and I'm wondering how to move forward. Its taken me 2 years to get upto 4000 unique visitors a month and about 400 listings.

I am looking to start a free hit counter service for my listing members, each site would have a linked image of current stats backto my website. I am guessing I would have about 10,000 pages with this counter on within a month if I went ahead with it as most of these websites are ecommerce websites.

Is this a good way to move ahead or pull the rug from under my feet?

Any comments appreciated.
-Brad :)

[londrum]

it depends. you only get credit from links these days if they are relevant to the content on your site.

if search engines suddenly see that you've obtained 10,000 new links within a few weeks from unrelated sites then it won't help you at all, it might even harm you.

but search engines aren't the be-all and end-all, of course. if these 10,000 new links are going to bring in a substantial amount of traffic on their own then it might be worth it.

but proceed with caution.

[BradH]

Thanks for your reply. All websites are related.

[topr8]

what makes you think you'd get such a high take up rate?

no website with access to their own logs needs anything like that as a service.

[BradH]

I already own a top-site for this subject, I don't think it would be hard to get a couple hits which alot of pages.