It depends on WHO the link is being requested from as to whether or not we actually 'action' anything on our end.

99% of the time its just been sent from a list of sites that a webmaster has crawled from the ODP.

The rare 1% of the time this isnt the case, we usually find they have minimal amounts of traffic to send and, unless they can do us more good than we can do them, we tend not to link to them.

We always balance our links to weigh in faor of our sites more than the person requesting a link, if someone wants to link to us and they have a piddly 100 hits a month, chances are, you wont get linked. On the other hand, if someone has thousands / millions of hits a month and they want a link going up, as long as its something on topic of the site they enquired about, chances are, we'll link em

Regards,

Lee