SEs don't take link lists into consideration
Here's something I noticed. Say I make an AVS or a free site. I submit it to major link lists and put their banners on the first page of my site. I also put textual links to those link list sites just below the banners.
As far as I can see, Google will take into consideration only if Menonthenet (and sometimes the sextracker counter) link to my site, and will index only the first page. Btw. I always provide textual links to other pages, so this is not the reason for Google to stop indexing at the first page.
It seems as if listings on all other link lists sites don't matter at all for Google. Hunkhunter, Sindbadbookbarks, Manpics2000, Justusboys, Altagaylinks, Hunkmen, Gaydemon... all very good link list sites with good quality traffic, but Google discards them altogether as far as linking to one's site is concerned.
As a result of this, I can't make Google index beyond the first page, and thus can't utilize text on them for gaining traffic.
Has anyone noticed the same?