Hi everyone, I picked up this question about linkreferal in a google search & was compelled to join "Income Central" just to pass on my own experience with Linkreferal.
Referrer Count
diy-pc-fix.com 428
linkreferral.com 65
google.com 43
google.com/search 41
The above stats were taken this morning & you can clearly see that Linkreferal is actually working. Bear in mind my website only went live on 26th Nov 2008 so the total number of hits is still very low, nevertheless taken in comparison to Google, you can clearly see that Linkreferal.com is out in front.
However, every golden cloud can have hidden dangers, as I recently found out & almost lost my Google adsense account.
I had been using Linkreferal on a daily basis, this means visiting 30 websites, reviewing 5, add one as a Fav, then finally posting a question or answer in Linkreferals own forum.
Everything was going really well, I even got my website listed as a featured site, without even paying a single cent !

This meant that everyone that visited their home page would see my website ! Great I thought & so I doubled my effort on reviewing other websites.
Now I am a very fair minded man & believe in calling a spade a spade, so when I reviewed these other sites, I did not bull shit anyone, if there were problems then I mentioned exactly what they were in the review ! Unfortunately I stumbled upon one website that was total chaos. It looked like a little kiddies crayoning book. So (calling a spade a spade) I informed the web owner that his/her site lacked theme, layout, colour co-ordination etc & that it needed a tremendous amount of work to bring it up to par with many of the websites listed there.
Me and my big mouth eh...? because the very next day my Google account showed 13 clicks on 1 ad, this was obviously frowned upon by Google, so much so that I almost lost my account, but luckily having explained to Google what I thought had taken place, I was suspended for 5 days.

Ok I have no actual proof of what took place, but that is one hell of a coincidence in anyones book.
So yes Linkreferal does indeed get you traffic if you put the effort in, but please take care & bear in mind that it only takes one malicious dim witt to cause you immense amounts of aggro !
Happy New Year to All