I got declined...
 

and the reason was "i do not accept tgp like galleries"

What's the difference between a TGP gallery and a free site gallery?

They pretty much look the same to me on alot of sites. |sad|

"a TGP gallery"
This is one page of clickable thumbs.

"free site gallery"
This is a warning page that leads to a main page that leads to two galleries of clickable thumbs so four pages in total.

......some linksites accept free sites and no tgp gallery, free site = warning, main, gallery1 and gallery2.
tgp=one gallery

if they dont accept tgp galleries it means they dont accept a gallerie submit, big difference between a tgp gallerie or a free site, check the rules of a linksite it will tell you what they do accept

No, what I mean is I submitted the free site...warning, main, 2 galleries, etc. but they won't accept it because of the way the gallery pages look.

Strange.

Post the URL of the site.

Hm I think I know what you mean... probably you made a site with warning with main page and 2 galleries... but these galleries were taken straight from the free hosted sponsor galleries ... unchanged, with lots of graphics that ppl rarely use bulding gallerys from scratch.


I maybe wrong.

Well that isnt what i thought it would be... no idea why you got declined...

Well that isnt what i thought it would be... no idea why you got declined...

that content is pretty well used, maybe thats what got the rejection and they selected the wrong choice in the reason for rejection dropdown.

not sure tho

It may be because you surrounded the banner with thumbs...

I didn't knwo that was a no-no :(

Actually, I emailed them to ask for an explanation so it wasn;t an accidental drop down choice on their part.

sickkittens, I personally rejected that site (you submitted a mirror to Adult Porn Guide) for the big blind link on the front page 'Teens Having Fun and Wild Sex' which goes straight to the sponsor.

I would suggest that may have been the main reason but other possible reasons you were rejected include
1. Overused sponsor content
2. Oversized main pics (yes they can be too big)
3. The index/front page and the rest of the site being in different directories
4. The title on the front page is not the same as the title inside the site (because of the different directories I imagine)
5. The title of the site is too similar to the sponsor
6. The link on the main page 'Visit TEENSFORCASH for more teens' is a bit dodgy, smells like a blind link
7. The links to 'free teens sites' and 'OTHER FREE TEENS SITES' go to a FPA that has no free teens sites on it, but has a link 'go 2 TEENSFORCASH for crazy sex' which is a link straight to the sponsor
8. All of the above

I always thought it was ok to have different Titles for each page?

I am sure it is probably fine to do that, the fact that you had the warning page and the main page in different directories is what made it look suspicious. If you are going to do doorways my advice would be to at least have all pages in the same directory.

SickKittens... there are a heap of link lists out there that may not be so pedantic... check them out and modify your recip tables accordingly

We all have different ideas about what is acceptable, you just need to find your style and find link lists that accommodate your style.

Good luck with you sites in the future :)

Why is this a problem?

Because many tap's and LL owners don't like that. Some of them actually explain it in their rules. A few even give examples.

Oh I know it's in the rules of many sites.

I'm just trying to understand the logic behind that rule.

I can see it being a problem if the banner can be mistaken for a thumbs but other than that I'm at a loss to understand it.

Their thinking ( and I agree) is for one thing it disturbs the flow of the gallery, but most importantly it creates a sort of blind link because surfers think it's part of the picture set. I know we all know different. But surfers are not webmasters.

I decline for this.

It is bad design. It looks like you turned the thumbs into a frame for the ad.

The site IS about the content, NOT the ads. Your galleries are our content. It is content that makes the surfer come to our sites, not to look at your ads.

This isn't to say that we aren't doing this to make sales. Sales should be the only reason we do this, but it needs to be done right or there will not be any sales.

Entice the surfer, amuse the surfer, get the surfer excited and then sell them the sponsor.

Tricking the surfer or slamming them with ads is not going to result in sales.

Go out and buy some magazines and see how they design pages. Most magazines make most of their money from the ads, not from sales of the magazine so the magazine is about the selling ad space, but the person who bought it bought it for its content.

Amen Sister |buddy|

That's hardly a blind link. There is no deception. No trickery, no lies. There ARE teens having wild sex in the site it links to.. so tell me something... What's wrong with this other than he may actualy get a sale from the warning page withought having to actualy see content?

My god, I run a link list myself and would never decline someone for that reason. However, the rest of your reasons have very good merit.

I just think alot of link lists owners have to stop telling webmasters what words to use in advertising. At this rate the only acceptable text link will be "Click here and you might be able to find a resemblance to this girl but you will have to have a credit card and it will cost you exactly $xx.xx to join and ignore everythign else I say on this site cause I am full fo myself and am taking advantage of link lists owners by wanting to actualy make money"


end rant.

It is 100% a deceptive link! especially when the surfer has come from a Link List that has listed the site as free, and the surfer hits that link, which looks like an entrance to the site.. and find themsleves at a pay site.

Not only will you not make a sale... you will reflect badly on the linklist that listed the site.

No one is telling anyone what text to use..! LL owners are simply saying that if you want my traffic, then you have to follow my rules and submit sites of a certain quality.

You can blind link your ass off and pop consoles and auto install anything you like on your sites.. you just can't submit them to lists that have quality standards.



DD

This statement right here should tell you everything you need to know.

Is it blind because it slightly resembles the page title? because there is no banner? What gives? Just becuase a surfer might hit that link after comming from a link list it's called deceptive? So every link that a surfer hits after comming from a link list MUST be free? Ok so then remove all links from warning page incase they might hit it and might have a word in it the same as the title? I'm not trying to be cocky but your not making any sense to me. Seriously.

What are we suposed to do? Spell it out in plain english to only hit links if they wish to pay? I give up man, you're the hardest to please, but I please you anyways when I submit becuase I want the traffic and have never gotten a decline that I can recall. Just seems like LL's are going the way of TGP's now. Forgetting that traffic to sponsors above all is most important.

Don't get me wrong though. If I submit a site with ads that look like thumbs and are sized like a thumb sitting next to a thumb, or have links promissing non existant shit, I would expect you to reject it. There is letting surfers own curiosity to figure out what the ad/link means for themselves, and then there is deception. What we saw here today was merely playing on curiosity.

I list things that would prolly make you cringe.. but ya know... not one complaint, people keep submitting, and I keep making money too from my link list and traffic keeps growing. Go figure.

Anywho, I got freesites to bulid for a client, and yes, they are ALL link list compliant regardless of my views on things. The client's ability to get listed as well as make money come first to me.

Actually it is my belief that a little crap in a list site is a good thing. Kind of the way a little piss on a webmaster board can be a good thing. ;)

The trouble is my admin seems like it has a direct connection to a collage dorm's main waste pipe during a Saturday’s evening of heavy partying. Each day I find myself swimming upstream in a sea of crap. :(

If I get a nicely designed site with good content I may overlook other things but if it is four pages of thrown together ads with pics that are just so so then I'm much more likely to nit pick about some rule and hit decline.

I can't tell you how many time I see a site with gaudy design and/or awful colors I just look for a reason to decline.

Likewise I see a site with pleasing design and decent content and it is more like please don't let there be a problem that prevents me from listing it.

It comes down to the fact that there is way more stuff being built then is needed so only the better stuff is going to get listed.

Want good listing then build good stuff.