Hardlinks OR Traffic Trading???
 

Can't decide are hardlinks really worth it if your gonna be getting links from galleries anyway. Who knows what I mean here?

hard links for me are more for search engine purposes...sometimes, but very rarely, i will get a hard link on a site that is relevant to my own and it brings in some business...

my top 5 referrers get hard links, everyone else gets out.cgi. It's one more incentive to send more traffic.

Of course, this only works if your trade site is already high PR. Else no one cares if you make a hard link or not.

i use both, and usally if the site is no skim, i dont use a trade script anyway, its all done via hard links