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Originally Posted by Halfdeck
I agree with most of your thinking on this Bill, but I disagree with your framing the recent changes at the Googleplex as a death-knell for the small LLs.
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Well, I have tried to make it clear that I mean _hurting_ and maybe killing.
I look out on the landscape of linklists, and what I see is attrition.
I saw the closing of Free Porn Post as being the clearest sign of this trend, but wether we are talking about the apparent failure of marc's sexysites (the only new "big" linklist created by a big name in recent memory), or the fading away of places like premium sex links, to the steady reduction in traffic from almost all linklists, the picture is pretty consistent.
No linklist owner will mention it, because it's not in their business interest to do so, but the pattern seems pretty clear to me.
But FPP was a dramatic example. Carl was a hard worker, had a strong presence in the community, linked as cleanly as anyone here - but he had to close, and go to work cleaning viruses off of suburbanites computers.
I saw it as a strong lesson to us all.
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Originally Posted by Halfdeck
Advantage will go to websites that have the strongest, cleanest link profile.
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The question is, how to acheive such a profile?
I think part of the answer will involve increasing the amount of unique content in the small LL domain.
The model of the freesite or gallery is close to being unique on the internet - LLs and TGPs don't create content, they link to hundreds of small (and to the search engines mostly garbage content) amounts of content created by their submitters with the now devalued recip links.
I have a hard time pointing to any other internet model that is equivalent.
The SE's used to love and reward that structure, which is what made the proliferation of small linklists possible. Now, not so much.
So, the really interesting question now is, how do you design something that makes money like the small linklist used to do, but which has a structure and content that the SEs value?