[Simon]

While HFS Links may have stopped writing titles and descriptions for HFS which don't have them (and I don't blame them for not wanting to do it), it was something they used to do. SO if you're looking to populate a new database with HFS and you want titles and descriptions for some which don't have them at the sponsor sites, you'll definitely do better getting them from HFS Links site.

At one time I was going to suggest that there was potential for a premiun/paid version of HFS Links, where all free sites had titles and descriptions, were pre-checked for working links, and where the exported data included the counts of the pics or video clips in the hfs, and maybe even a way to choose between using links for PPS or revshare (or $1 trials, whatever), and maybe being able to include a campaign code in the links for sponsors who track campaigns.

But then I realized that what GG posted is very true. If the sponsor doesn't have the sense to include titles and descriptions, then their hfs themselves are usually the worst examples of what you get from using builders with no hfs-building experience. And there's no way to fix a bad hfs, only the sponsors can do that. I've sent more than a few emails to sponsors pointing them to the hfs threads here, but maybe 1 out of 10 even seems to understand or care what they're doing wrong. And almost none of them have bothered to fix anything.

I guess the good news is for the independent free site builders who know what they're doing. There's stilll a lot more opportunity in the free site game since sponsors haven't yet produced the 100s of thousands of good hfs that link lists could use.