Yes, I know exactly what you are saying and in that case it wouldn't be a beneficial trade for a blog of that style.
There is a very specific reason why I set things up this way. My category pages are extremely filtered. Most if not all of the traffic flowing through them are there because they are legitimately interested in the niche. By only counting one URL, I know where the traffic is coming from and I know that it will always match the niche. If I let people send from anywhere on their site, I would be getting unrelated traffic counting at clicks on my niche pages which wouldn't make sense for me. So those sites would rank higher, get more quality traffic back from me and in return I get unrelated traffic that won't be happy with their destination.
It doesn't work for everyone, but works extremely well for most.
marc
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Originally Posted by BCyber
From what I understand after reading your rules you only count incoming traffic from one specific url. If someone sends traffic from a blog and they have your link in their header or blogroll or where ever, only the clicks from say www.whateverblog.com will count. If someone is viewing a blog post or page from like www.whateverblog.com/category/todays-blog-post/ and clicks your link then that won't count?
Blogs are setup a lot different then site like yours. You add a link somewhere on a blog and it is automatically on 100's or 1000's of other pages in the blog on that same domain.
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