Hey JustSwallows, from what i can tell the index is your main page, with traffic and "juice". The only link i see to /blog page is the tiny text link at very bottom of page.
So get to the blog page, where you'll link to our/buyers sites from a blog post, so that means it's 3 clicks til a user can even see/click a link to the outbound external link, can you confirm?
if so, the links should be almost worthless, sorry
