Setting Up A Directory: My Adventures

[kristian]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Here's another thought that just rattled thru my head

Every free site submitters knows that the hits come in full force during the 1st day or so of being listed. It trails off a bit after that until they are removed from the "new" page & they are just listed on the category page.

Let's say you get big (and I sure do hope you do) & you're listing more than 50 new sites each day. Every link after 50 gets moved to the 2nd "new" page?

3 days later, they're on the 4th or 5th "new" page where very few surfers will see them?

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Meatman used to bounce ideas off of me all the time. My job was to poke holes in the ideas so that he could fix them or toss them in the trash. If he had an idea that I could not poke holes in, he ran with it.

I like to poke holes in things

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I'm having fun dude. You're keeping me on my toes and making me think more about what I'm doing. Keep em coming you sexy big green fucker you!!!
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This is a great point. You're looking at it from every angle. Good stuff.

This all boils down to one thing : How much harder is it to click a link and move on to page 2 than is it to just scroll down the page and see the other links. It is a little bit harder (because clicking is harder than scrolling) but not much. So if they are keen to see more than 50 links they are probably just as likely to click Page 2 as they are to scroll down the page some more.

I compromised on some se in the design phase. When you submit a new link, here is what happens :

Example : You submit a cumshot free site.

Your free site gets listed

- New Links
- Cumshots
- Cumshot Free Sites.

So you get your site on 3 pages.

Furthermore!

I've setup the script to encourage quality submissions.

The better your description and site the more clicks and user ratings you will get. The more of these you get the more chance you have of landing on 2 EXTRA pages -- top rated and cool links.

All in all, I would say the submitter gets more here (BESIDES TRAFFIC LOL) than most other link lists.

*smashes tennis ball back your motherfucking way*