Dustin, the days of easy money are over in this business. Years ago when I was running a tgp, I had an adverisement on my main page for one of those penis enlargment programs. At $27.00 a pop, I was making $300 - $450 per week from that one little ad. And I was getting only 30,000 hits a day. I don't think you could do that now with that kind of traffic. Then, the penis enlargment thing petered out (pun intended.) Oh well. Speaking of tgp's, you may want to consider that over a link list. Although I 've never run a link list, I think a tgp might be better for you starting out. But for god sake, get some kind of script. There's lots of inexpensive ones out there. I rigged up some kind of form that sent submissions to my email and I was getting 350 submissions a day. And I was on dialup. Reviewing took forever. Anyway, you could give out partner accounts to cut down on the cheaters and spend more time networking and generating traffic instead of reviewing galleries. And of course list your own galleries and fhg's in juicy spots. But like everone says, learn html first.

What exactly is your goal with this?

Do you want to create a site that links to other sites.

OR

Do you want to create a Links List that links to Free Sites? (I think most replies in this thread are based on this thinking)

Just remember, TGP traffic can be very low quality. Nothing wrong with starting a tgp, just that the returns might be lower.

ronnie

without sounding like a broken record here...lol....I vote that if you intend to do any kind of site, just as GG said, learn the html code because you will thank yourself later. But to make things easier, if you are a visual person, use Dreamweaver...if you are a techy person, do hand-coding.

As for actually starting a Link list or Link Directory, all I can say (and I've said this before to new ones), be afraid, be very afraid. If you want to be serious with this project, you will have to make personal sacrifices in social life, your own free time, and be prepared to work your butt off. Trust me and others in this thread (and forum) that its a LOT of work. My suggestions:

1. Read more and learn more from the boards
2. Ask lots of questions
3. check out the various LL's and Directories that we all have
4. Learn the basics of HTML and get good with it
5. Get Dreamweaver and practice with it and get good with it
6. Get some Search Engine optimization knowledge as well
7. Check out various sites listed on LL's
8. Best not program your own LL at this time...look for a good script
9. create a personal schedule to work this project...stick to it

Thats just a few of many more :)

One more item to add to NetGoonie's list, not sure where it fits, but definitely near the top somewhere.

Learn to generate traffic and make it go where you want (filtering).

Well to answer GG's question, I'm looking to do an affiliate program links site, plain and simple. Establish the links, get revshare.

And for everyone else, I appreciate all your feedback. I just want to make sure were all on the same page.