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I understand your reluctance to add links to a
commercial site - I struggled with it for a long
time, but the fact is it's practically essential
these days.
It doesn't need to be obtrusive though, or hit
your visitors in the eye, but at the same time you
want to provide your link partner with some
benefit - visitors, PR, etc.
I use a 'resource directory' type setup that is
linked from the bottom of every page on my site.
It's clearly available to visitors who want to go
there, and it's presented in such a way that it
looks like it is for the visitors, but in honesty
a very small percentage even look there. At the
end of the day it is there for the search engines.
But because it is set up based on topics, it is
actually getting some direct search engine traffic
itself.
As far as your concern about losing visitors
through your outgoing links... if your site is not
up to scratch to keep them, they will leave one
way or another - back button, bookmark, searchbar
or that nasty 'X'.. they will find a way out.
The point is that you can have a link system that
is (1) attractive, (2) doesn't leak visitors and
(3) provides real benefit to your link partners
and to you.
It does take a change in attitude to get
comfortable with the idea of linking out.. but
it's a healthy change to make.
