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Originally Posted by ronnie
I agree, the site is done pretty well, one review I looked at was pretty long and in-depth, although you kinda talked the surfer out of joining..lol
As Alex said there are plenty of review sites out there to trade with, that might be the best bet at first, least you might get some SEO help if you did'nt get traffic.
Although some might over look the site is only sponsor links if they can get a link on the root of a domain v.s. a free site door way page that might not see much of anything. Course Pr and traffic can sure help you out with potential trades.
ronnie
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Thanks for the compliment
You're right. VERY in-depth (we try to be anyway) and... re-read the mission statement
We've tried to create a place that doesn't just gush about every site they review, because the honest truth is, there's a lot of shit sites out there. The ultrashit sites we won't touch of course, and even some of the ones that rate 70-80 could up their score by 10 points simply by telling me how often they update their site in the tour. The trick is keeping affiliate managers from getting pissed off while still being honest and up-front with the surfer. You'll certainly see some sites NOT highly recommended, but chances are there's another site from that sponsor that IS... There's an article in the FAQ on this, but I don't know if it'll make any more sense than my normal long-winded rambling! The main thing you'll see sites get a vote of no-support is just that - they never tell you how often they add new content, in either the tour or the members area, so how are we to know that the last addition wasn't done in March 05? (especially on revshare programs...) Anywho...
Of course we've covered that this is only a month or two old site, but in the normal course of my business I try VERY HARD not to play the PR/Alexa game, because they're so easy to manipulate. A guy I used to work with proved that with alexa EASY:
Run your site from DOMAIN.COM
Set up a gallery dump on TGPS.DOMAIN.COM and autosubmit 2-3 galleries a day. Didn't take 3 months to get his Alexa under 10,000.
And it was his intention to use that alexa rating to charge more for advertising!!!! Egads!
So personally I don't look as much at stats (lies, damn lies, and statistics). But I realize that 99% of the webmaster community does... then again, I rarely fall into the majority on anything it seems! LOL