To exchange links. Follow these simple instructions:

1. Place this html code somewhere on your site:
   
   <a href="http://www.f-w-r.com">Free Webmaster Resources</a>
    
   Description:
   Web design related content including templates, affiliates, flash ge
   neration, graphics, scripts, tutorials, web hosts, sitepromotion, U
   RL redirection, and more.
   
   

   Below is code to place this button on your site.

   <a href="http://www.f-w-r.com"><img src="http://www.f-w-r
   .com/pics/88x31.gif" alt="Free Webmaster Resources" borde
   r="0"></a>

   
   
   
2. Make sure our link is on your site before you fill out this form. After
   you submit the form we'll confirm our link on your site and put a return
   link on www.f-w-r.com ASAP.

   Enter your E-mail address:
   Enter URL where the link to our site is:
   Comments or Special requests (title, etc.) :
   Choose your sites best suited category:	Affiliates **Every Page Graphics *Links Page Remote Hosted Scripts Site Promo Site Stats Templates Tutorials URL Redirection Webhosts

   *Select 'links page' if your site does not partain to any of the categories or if it's not free.
   
   **Only select 'every page' if your site receives more than 500 unique visitors daily and a reciprocal link to f-w-r would be located on every page of your site also.
   
   

    Note: All links are reviewed personally by a webmaster of the site.

Exchanging links is always a better idea than joining a toplist. You may be thinking "Well either way you both have a link to the other person's site and more people will be looking on the toplist page than others because it's a popular entry page." That thought would be true but it's an imcomplete thought. There is more to it than you know.

Almost all toplists located on websites everywhere link to joining sites with a link like "'http://www.f-w-r.com/cgi-bin/autorank/rankem.cgi?id=220w98th", which is an example of a members link to our toplist. Everything in that link would be fine except for the question mark and that equals sign, as they aren't search engine friendly.

When a search engine's spider visits a site it goes through every individual link unless otherwise specified in a META tag and indexes the location at which it ends up. Since the spider can't go through a link with special characters in it, it actually works against not only the toplist member's full traffic potential but against the website's full traffic potential also. Neither your link to the toplist or their link from the toplist to you will be accounted for in the search engines rankings and you will both end up with lower rankings than if you would have agreed to trade links manually. MORE ABOUT SITE OPTIMIZATION