I doubt they improve traffic - would you click on one? But they will improve visibility because you have atleast 2 more inbound links one from the page pointing to you one from the blog ring index I've got one on my blog - as a trial - but only because it caters for my geographic region. I'm not actually sure if it's worth it but I'm too busy to investigate and remove...
As a natural link? a deliberate link? or blog ring link? I have plenty of links to other sites too, it's just the value of the blog rings that I query!
Just checked your site, and thank you for the link. I wouldn't class that as a blog ring link. To me web rings and blog rings are characterised by this kind of layout < ? kiwi blogs # > where the user doesn't know what they will get next, and thinking further the link probably shows as a redirect so the bots don't value it anyway...
No that's effectively just a single 'blogroll' link Now one of my other blogs, I have recipricol links with some related blogs. But perhaps Google just views them as link exchanges and devalues them. With a blog ring, I was wondering if it's more valuable, since each blog points to the next in line, and it's not directly a link exchange.
In the example I gave the url for > is http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=kiwiblogs;id=283;action=next but points to http://www.aim-2-succeed.com/blog/ according to a HTTP Header Viewer Tool that is HTTP/1.1 302 Found to be of value it needs to be a 301 and it should have keywords, not a symbol...