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I would like to see more room for creativity. I'd like to see more flexibility rather than sticking to the usual 4 pages format. More specifically -
1. I'd like to see room for freesites that have more than one type of content. A mix of stories, pics and movies.
2. I'd like to see room for freesites with more galleries and fewer pics/movies per gallery.
3. I'd like to be able to have more than 3 outgoing links on a gallery page, or on any page for that matter. I'm not talking about banner farms or even link farms with some content at the bottom of the page. I'm talking about being able to highlight words in the text (in positions and context where they won't be blind links) and have some more leeway with text links, while retaining 3 blocks of ads per page (3 blocks but not 3 links).
4. I'd like to see freesites where some of the pages can have full-sized images and/or embedded flash movies rather than thumbnails.
5. Last but not least, I'd love to see more flexibility in recirocal linking. Could be links back from the root of the domain or from a links page in the FS, but not necessarily on the main or index page. If that links page was linked to from every page on the FS, for example, it may get just as much link juice and traffic as a table on the index page, and it would mean we don't do direct reciprocals either. Just a thought, and we might be able to come up with more creative ways.
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Combining a warning page with a link straight to the galleries sounds fine to me as well. More links on the warning page are fine too.
I think that Tigermom summed it up quite well in the quote above.
I'd love to see submitters get more creative. It seems that most free site builders build the exact same type of sites because Link Lists have dictated exactly how to build those sites. The free site builders are scared to be creative for fear of all their work being for naught because they won't get listed.
As Link List owners I think that we should encourage creativity instead of stifling it. I like Tigermom's idea of a mix of pics, movies, and stories. More galleries and flexible reciprocal linking also sound like good ideas to me.
Not to change the focus of Kit's thread too much, but do any of you have positive, creative ideas that you'd care to share about how we can change things up a bit?