Fathom, thanks again for your input. I have read the associated thread you linked to on your last message. It has however left me a little confused.

I'll give a straight forward situation and see what comes of it.

My site is all about jobs, recruitment, work etc... I have accidently managed to get listed in the the first page of Google for a particular keyword relating to recruitment. Accidently meaning I hadn't gotten around to optimising that page yet :) (doing something right!) Obviously I want to capitalise on this and work for a better ranking.

Basically I am going to offer a resume distribution service and link to all the recruitment agencies. I am curious as to whether a well organised link structure to these agencies will help my site. Given that my page content and theme is very similar to theirs. Bearing in mind that these are not 'authority sites' and few will reciprocate the link.

This page is linked from my homepage pr5 and currently has pr0. All my tags and content relates to jobs, recruitment, work etc...