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My thesis and mantra about SE traffic and linking relationships:
My viewpoint on search engines as a whole, is they are increasing becoming less relevant as SEO folks do their tweaking to try and gain a position in the first 1,000 results (SE limit results to only 1,000 URL) and more importantly, the race to be in the top 25.
Alot of search results are having links at the top that when you click and view them, you wonder "how the f*ck did this page get ranked so high?" ALot of pages aren't even trying to be SE optimized, but are up there.
With my work at t3report.com , i see that traffic flows from website to website as webmasters send traffic around. So when a surfer clicks on a link on a SE result, they have left the SE world and now entered the world of linking relationships. If the surfer doesn't like what you have, you show them banners and links to go elsewhere, you do exit consoles and popups to send them elsewhere.
Webmasters build their linking relationships with other websites in order to move traffic around. This is exacty what t3report.com documents... to show who has those linking relationships. What you do with that information is up to you.
Those that are playing the SEO game have suggested that the report can help them to identify who might be good to establish a linking relationship in order to bolster their PR.
My position is that SE traffic is fine because it is free ,but it's way too competitive for millions of webpages to compete for just the first 25 spots, let alone the top 1,000 results. I see more goldmines in traffic from the hundres of thousands of websites that are getting traffic and you could mine that traffic if you knew where to look.
Fight the being the 1001st SE result!
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