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Originally Posted by Greenguy
Let's remember that I do not remove ALL sites after 6 months, just those that have not been "updated"
A little work & a quick FTP 5 months after you built the site would solve this problem 
(and I shudder to think of the amount of sites I'd have listed if I didn't do this - LOL) |
I actually don't mind that system the more I think about it.. good way to ensure good people keep getting the benefit whilst weeding out the rest.. but I really do believe 6 months is too short a time to list sites that are trying to build a linklist empire... updated or not.
I Really was not reffering to you as the "problem"... It's the many other sites that drop freesites now that is the worry for me.. I suspect many of these webmasters only do it because they have seen you or Jay doing it, and think that makes it fine.. But hardly anyone else, apart from you, has the "unmanageable numbers" reason..
For example.. over the last 5 years I have received almost 100,000 site submissions at We Love Free Porn.. that's more than 50 sites per day average... which I am pretty sure would be more than than most site's have received over that time. I was always very easy with the rules for regular submitters, and now have 48,187 sites in the database.. Which is close to the upper limit I think my site can stand on it's traffic.. But it is manageable.
New linklist sites do this mainly in reaction to submitters constantly comparing hit numbers from LinkLists.. creating a desire among owners to send more clicks to new sites, at the expense of long term linking which is the whole reason freesite builders have to justify the extra effort they go to imho... seems like a catch22 to me.. Why bother with freesites if people are building today for sales tommorrow, TGP gals are much more effective for that strategy.
Anyway, not trying to be obnoxious to anyone that does drop sites.. hopefully a few will read this and think "shit, I never thought of that angle" more than anything.
Maybe those of us that Don't Drop sites should start mentioning it prominenty on our submit pages.. as a way to encourage more people to run their sites along the lines of what I would call a "genuine linklist model".
