Which of these footer text links is the best

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Originally Posted by JAI-LING

Your sig is killing me.
Not ripping on you. It makes a good point.

Yeah, but it is not very effective, haven't sold a single book through it! Still it is link popularity for Google (pretty soon I'll be the number one result if you search for "What is a bastard?" !!!!!!!!!!)

Originally Posted by JAI-LING

We've learned/learning GET INSTANT ACCESS or SIGN UP NOW loses half your traffic if not more. Just personal experience.

These are "filtering links". The idea is that it stops some of the surfers who have no intention of paying any money for anything, so that you get a higher sale to click ratio. It used to make sense when bandwidth was expensive and you did not want to waste money giving free samples to freeloaders. It still makes sense if the sponsor is paying per click, or if you are advertising on something like AdWords. But putting it on FHGs (with a revshare or pay per sale deal) is bloody stupid. Yet most of my sponsors do it! (Which is one of the reasons this business is making so little money - don't blame it all on the tubes!)