My link list is 1 year and 2 months old and with that being said I think I've had some fairly better results than you Preacher in my first year as a link list owner - and I'm not trying to be the cool GFY-type o' kid on the block here - just sharing my experience.
Please note the "I think" above - I can't give you a nice income/expenses type of thing here since my server costs is for hosting many domains and I can't track all the sales my link list has made over the last year.
But I know for sure that my link list has made more than $1000 in its first year. That's just from looking at my ARS/PimpRoll stats - what's special about those sponsors? They offer $1 trials! I've setup my link list in the same way that GreenGuy is running Link-O-Rama's category pages. Free/$1 offers on top, then paysites and then free sites. And with not too much traffic I've been getting ratios in the 1:200 range to a lot of those $1 trial sites.
I just took a look at your new category page and I see you use tabs for easy browsing of free sites and paysites - isn't that making it a bit
too easy for the surfer though? I know I'm not on a quest to give away free porn and neither is 95% of the other people in adult - we're here for the money and the money only!
Things I want to improve on:
- Like you I need to be more aggressive about getting hardlinks to get anywhere in the search engines.
- Get more submitters. There has gotta be other countries than Russia that has discovered the free site
That was my experience - anyone has any questions or anything please post or hit me up.
And sorry if this was a bit of a hi-jack but since I couldn't make such a nice and detailed description that Preacher has provided I thought it was more appropriate here.