as far as my sites... no I don't care that much.
I even spent a year offline with nothing but splash pages up, then came back to it and started a new... it's more about the fun of design and content then worrying what will get me from 20th to 1st in the serps.
I'll trade links from time to time, to help out friends, the only reason I get a link back from them somewhere, is just to be fair.
