I don't usually keep lists of LLs I have knocked off my sites. But yesterday I discovered one when checking rules before submitting a new site, and have not yet knocked it off my list. It is: http://pinknpurple.com/webmasters/add.php but I have seen plenty of others.

Having a no dynamic pages rule is a bad idea since some WMs (like me) use a Perl script or PHP to count hits and sort the where-froms. In other words saying "no dynamic pages" makes it look like you are trying to hide the fact that you send bugger all hits. And just banning SSI means you ban the more interesting sites and end up just listing a pile of boring template sites.

However I can understand why some LL webmaster's do this, because if you use a script to check (and recheck) submissions instead of doing it yourself, dynamic pages (and SSI alone) can be used to cheat the more basic check scripts.

OK can I take a straw pole on this one. I decided against doing this when I thought of it a year or so back, because it is cheating (finding a way to break the rules without the LL webmaster knowing). Do people agree with me on this or do you think doing this is OK (everyone's opinion appreciated, but mostly I would like answers from people who actually run LLs).

Although I'm no big linklist owner I'm gonna react to this anyway, please don't shoot me :D

It has nothing to do with cheating.

Let's say you've build a hundred of free sites and submitted them all to the linklist and linked like http://www.porn.com/index.html

No you found this new and great script but it needs SSI... what to do?

Easy, put in the SSI and enable SSI to parse .html files.

If you rename your .html files to .shtml files you're going to have to resubmit all your site...

Anyway, I hope this makes sence |waves|