I believe their algo is regularly changing and enhanced, so outsiders do not know the exact algo. We can only make some informed guess and experiments.

Hi kavita, welcome to Daniweb. But I believe you should post this under "Community Introduction".

Nope, I don't think spiders are considered as traffic.

You can use google webmaster tools. It will track all the links to your sites, including the "nofollow" ones.

The "link:yourdomain" search don't give you all the links.

So can any of the admins give us an estimated date of when the link directory will be up again?

Hi Dani, has the link directory been removed? If so, then I would have to remove the link to Daniweb on my company website....