Hello, Newbie With A Few Questions

[Lemmy]

1. If you don't want to trade links you're fresh out of luck I'm afraid. The only way I know of to build traffic is to get quality submits and quality link trades. Oh yeah, and give your site a couple of years to mature. Purchased traffic is more often than not crap.

2. Are you using a script or just updating straight html pages manually. If the latter is the case, then yeah, that gets boring pretty fast.

EDIT: After re-reading your post I infer that you are indeed maintaining a straight HTML linklist. A board search for linklist scripts should give you a few options.

[giamann]

HI Lemmy, thanks for your response.

Yes, I am updating HTML pages manually right now, and as you say, it is getting old REALLY fast , sob sob sob ( he he he ). I'm sure there has to be a better way.

As for the link trades, I am open to it if it doesnt make my site look like a banner farm... I have a link trade with Ultra-Donkey right now (script) but upon further consideration I think that was a dumb move. I can't supply nearly the traffic required to even make their list (not sure what I was thinking on that one). And, no surprise, I have received no traffic from them.

Ironically, after my first post, I checked my stats and discovered I made my first sale on 7/30... a full day after all purchased traffic stopped to my site! Go figure!

[virgohippy]

You can always build your own freesites and submit them to other LL's.

Putting your recip in with a bunch of other sites (exactly the same a regular submitter) will not only give you backlinks and traffic but some submitters will find it, and start submitting to you as well.

[Lemmy]

giaman, you need to think long term. It takes a long time, years (note plural), for a linklist to generate any kind of steady income.

Also, there may be a confusion in terms here. It looks like what you have going with Ultra-Donkey is a scripted toplist trade of sorts. Few, if any LLs have scripted trades. When we talk about link trades it is hardcoded html trades done primarily for linkback/SE purposes. Any traffic that trickles in is just gravy.