can you find a recent bit of evidence to show that link exchange is a big part of search progress, and not something that'll potentially hurt your site like the tops guys at google say?
from this thread i can tell you're the type of person who will be doing black hat seo techniques, so maybe atm linking to your site wont harm me, but it wont take long for google to see the black hat seo techniques and then i get punished for recommending your site. not worth it tbh
also html and valid css? so?
site doesn't load for me right now so not good for first impressions.