If you want a gut reaction…I’d say you are online to get increased traffic, but I DEFINITELY wouldn’t lose sleep over it. Your question already offers a postscript to my learning on the subject.

Keep in mind, SEO is a constantly evolving creature…like the Internet. Whenever I hear that Yahoo or Google or the many other playahs are tweaking it, I feel like I did whenever Alan Greenspan made a new announcement about the Fed rate and the economy. You never really know what affect their changes will make, but it’s always an experience to try to figure it out. And each time business owners learn a little more.

The popular Answer is, pad the search engine pockets with advertising hit cash, but for some of us, that really isn’t a present option.

I would be interested in reading any articles you have written.

I’d suggest starting a Blogger blog that is directly related to and pointing to your site. Post your site’s articles with your site link on blogger. Google indexes all blogger posts pretty quickly.

Calm down, get some rest, and continue with your linking campaign. Hit the seo forums and learn about backlinks. You want quality, relevant links, but you can get only one or a few a day if they’re the right kind of links. 5 quality links is better than 100 non-quality links, so you don’t have to spend a lot of time on it.

I usually try to get about 3 or 4 good links per day until others start linking to my site, and I no longer have to bother with it. Visit the SEO forum at http://powerearners.com/