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Make sure you know them well =]
I'm talking from experience about my lack of experience. My link list site is scheduled for an overhaul sometime in winter (total code rewrite). I wrote it from scratch during the course of two weeks and it's a pain in the ass to maintain. I know a lot more about link lists now after having maintained this one for a few months. The knowledge I have know will serve me well when I write the 2.0 version of the system (and I'll spend more than two weeks writing it).
If you're not a programmer it's best to buy your link list system. The other members may be able to give you better info than I can about this.
- Carefully choose your categories
- Carefully choose your submit guidelines. Rewrite them as you need to. If you get tired of 'old drunk mature granny' (as I am) then don't list them anymore and make note of that in your guidelines.
- Respect those who submit to you great free sites. they will make or break you. Maybe even give them partner accounts (I would like to do this in the future).
- If you get a free site that 'just doesn't feel right' then don't list it.
- Make sure somewhere in your link list you mention when your listings were last updated. I never submit to link lists that don't do this (other free site designers may think like me too). Some link lists have not been updated in months and have been abandoned. You can't tell unless they stamp the date on their site when they last updated their listings.
That's all I can think of at the moment, but there's a lot to learn.
ADK
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