What's the current consensus on using phpadsnew (dynamic ads) on freesites?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Bill

But I was wondering if there are already people who always build dynamic freesites, if there are linklist owners who hate the idea of dynamic freesites, and so on.

When I build a site that is not going to be submitted to link lists I almost always use some form of dynamic content. However when I build free sites to submit to link lists I never do. It keeps everyone happy, but the downside is that link lists never get to list my better sites.

However I do use a Perl program to count traffic and see how much comes from each source (so much easier and quicker that working through my server stats) and since I feel that using mod rewrite to hide this fact is 'cheating' on the LL owners I submit to, my landing page is usually a .shtml page. This means that a few WMs refuse to accept it. If it says in their rules "no .shtml pages", then I simply don't submit to them. But if this is not in their rules, and they don't email me to say this is why they did not list my site, then eventually I am going to see that I get no traffic from them and put them on the "useless sites" list. Either way they eventually get no submissions from me. No real problem for me because there are more LLs than I have time to submit to (I hand submit, I don't use a script to do it) and I guess the LL gets plenty of submissions and isn't crying because they don't get mine.

However three things do come to mind:
1. If your LL doesn't get enough listings for your liking, don't ban .shtml pages, I cannot be the only person doing this and if you need more sites to list, you are shooting yourself in the foot this way.
2. If you don't allow .shtml pages, make sure you say so in your rules. If you just don't send traffic to WMs who have .shtml pages a good few are not going to realise that it could be because you don't accept .shtml files, and simply assume you are a traffic thief, and some of these will tell people you are a cheater.
3. Personally I don't really consider webmasters who are afraid of CGI as professionals. This does not change the way I work with them (unless they are asking me to invest in their site, or are looking for a job), but it does change my personal opinion of them.