I've been wondering for years why someone had not created a manual or automatic traffic exchange, that was based upon searches. The surfbar traffic exchanges that I had found simply did not count since they all left footprints. Hitleap sort of counted, if you used the paid 'anonymous' feature. But even then it was sketchy. The other thing is that everyone could see the sites being visited, which is not not be ideal if you don't trust the people...

I posted this thread on Warrior Forum about Google penalizing major sellers for manipulating the search engine results.

Google's Matt Cutts posted a response after penalizing JC Penneys.

It's interesting the choice that Google made toward the action they took against JC Penney.

Why such a limited "penalty"?

Because JC Penney is a recognized name and they pay a lot of money for advertising.

It would be nice to think that...

As you probably realize, linkbuilding is critical to getting traffic and increasing your pagerank on the search engines, for your keywords.

As for my experience, I am a regular on Hub Pages and Squidoo, along with owning and running quite a few web sites.

On both Hub Pages and Squidoo I have built a list of resources that will work to build backlinks. However, my own sites are the most important to me and have the most options.

On my blog/article web site,...