Sean, if you pay me to do link building it would cost you quite a bit - because link building is a very laborious, time consuming, and expensive thing to do. I'd need to cover costs and profit. For commerical sites this is nothing more than an investment to be made, but for non-commercial sites there's often no cashflow to fund such an investment.
Because yours is a non-commercial site I'd therefore recommend your taking the time to get links yourself - directory submissions and link exchanges as well.
I have some good resources coming on this - hang around and I'll show them all after the next PR update.
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Btw - I've suddenly got quite a few referrers to the world religions site (in my sig link) from the sports site you are "chicken..." on, but I can't find the thread - any pointers? I'm intrigued.
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