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Originally Posted by Greenie
Links to whoringwives.com were removed on July 11th, but it was not blacklisted, which 99.44% of the time means there was a DNS issue. MML was not the one that ran the linkbot on that day, or I'd have heard about it. I'll ICQ you now.
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Just a friendly follow-up - We we're both on a planes to Vegas on the 11th, so I can't say for sure what was going on with that domain. Only the free sites from that one domain were removed (luckily), but not the sites on my other two free site domains. A DNS issue would have been odd, but the server that my stuff has been on had been occasionally bogging, so that was probably the culprit - and that's one of the reasons that everything is being moved to new host. WW is now pretty much alone on the old VPS box and will get moved sometime this month. Sooner rather than later.
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Originally Posted by Stirring Simon
So, do you remove the recips for link lists which drop your free site listings based on a 'expire date' or do you leave the recips up?
If you remove the recip, do you replace it with another LL recip and then submit your free site to that LL? Or is it just build and forget, including forgetting that some LL won't list your free sites forever?
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As far as the lists that 'expire' free site listings, I have, up until now, never really given that much thought. I honestly didn't realize that SG had that six month policy. If I was already editing a particular free site and I noticed that I had a recip up to a list that I knew wasn't linking back anymore, I might take the extra couple of seconds to take the link down and possibly replace it with another. Would I go looking for old free sites to remove recips under those circumstances? No. It's not worth effort and, in most cases, that link list would have given you much more traffic in those six months than what the value of that single non-recip link could ever make up for. Plus, if you want the big lists to retain their ability to provide loads of traffic, you want to see them doing well in the SEs. I believe non-reciprocated inbound links are part that success.
When it comes to other situations, such as never getting listed or having a listing dropped for other reasons, then yes - I do remove/replace those recips if I have the time and KNOW that the listing is dead. GG has offered to relist the dropped free sites and I had to admit to him that I've already begun replacing the LOR recip on that particular domain's free sites.
EDIT: And now the Green One just ICQ'd me to let me know that he has just re-added my sites anyway. Damn him!