I do not really do link exchange unless the money is really good since i do not like click ads or popup boxes on my site. Nothing against making money but it has to be worth my wild and also for the quality of my sites. Also the links have to be related to my site i am not going to put say a sex site link on my music site wont ever happen. However say for example guitar center wants to have a link on my site no problems. I tend to stay away from link exchange in general the talent who is on my site can put in there domain name in there profile so my site is already linked to several music sites, myspace pages and other places so i guess i am good for what it is.
Links are important but bigger sites can be ranked higher for several keywords without getting links. I have seen many sites with pr0 and hardly any links but still those sites receive lot of traffic from google organic. Here is how to rank higher without links: http://www.paisa400.com/paisa/10/
The formula is More traffic more sales If you get a lot links, it mean that you will get a lot traffic How way?? Now that you have your system created, it's time to start driving traffic to your lead capture page. There is free trafiic 1. Free Traffic When are first starting out you may not have a lot of money to invest into your business. 2. Manual Traffic Exchanges – A manual traffic exchange is basically a service where you agree to look at other people's web sites in exchange for getting views to your web site. They work very well, if you know how to use them properly. 3.List Builders or Safelists – Safelists are a service that you sign up for that will allow you to send your email ads out to others in exchange for viewing emails from other members. Articles – With articles you basically write a series of articles based on the product you are promoting. 4. Search Engine Optimization, SEO – SEO is not really a free form of traffic generation like the ones above in the sense that it is not used by itself but in conjunction with all other traffic generation methods