I'm a maverick I guess, because regardless of the site I've built I've never put recips for anyone on the first page. I always put them on a "links page".

Some people don't like that and thats fine with me if I don't get listed with them.

Here's what I've found over the years -- generally speaking my links pages receive decent traffic from both surfers and SE's.

As an example, at my dating site my links page is at: http://www.gaydatingtips.com/other_gay_websites.html

This page has been up for about a year now and consistantly ranks in the top 5 pages for page views. Often it's in the top 3. The page receives a good mix of traffic from both within the site and from SE's.

I've done the same thing at my porn site which is only a few weeks old but I expect the same to happen there too.

Of course I'm not a directory or link list owner so it doesn't matter what I say except that hopefully more owners might realize that they can benefit from being linked to from pages other than the home/index page.

In any event, I'm thankful to those SE's/Directories/Link Lists that don't mind where I place the recip or if it's a text link, (which is the best as far as SE's are concerned) and who do list me.

But it sure can be frustrating at times.