Trouble starting up

[Llam4]

Woah, wasn't asking for any top positions. And it's boring because nobody's been posting yet. One of its main features will be a fairly high-paced environment for the surfers, so they can refresh and get a few more posts per minute. It's been 3 days, to ask that much now is insane.

Originally Posted by walrus

Dude, dont take this as anything more than a little constructive criticism.

I've looked at your site a couple times and it looks like a type of hybrid between a social bookmarking site and something else maybe a directory. Hybrids are ok but it leaves one to wonder where your headed.

But thats not why I decided not to submit anything. Every link on my site is a site I would recommend to a friend. Your site is boring. I don't know if your looking for blogs or feeds but signup with some sponsors that offer hosted whichevers and add some excitement....or at least some content. I work hard to get my surfers I sure the hell ain't going to send them someplace that I'm bored at.

As far as link trades, you want a prime link location on one of my sites you need to earn it. There is no way in hell I'm going to give someone a prime link location on my site when they would be lucky to send me 2 hits back. Especially when one of them just isn't smart enough to click on the little X. My trades sort by who has sent the most in. Want a trade, start at the bottom and show that you deserve a link at the top.

Like I said you look more like a social bookmark site than anything else. Look at them and see what it takes to do trades with them. But be prepared to accept a less than desirable location for your link until your able to send something back.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Llam4

Woah, wasn't asking for any top positions. And it's boring because nobody's been posting yet. One of its main features will be a fairly high-paced environment for the surfers, so they can refresh and get a few more posts per minute. It's been 3 days, to ask that much now is insane.

Re-read your post

Your link will be displayed on the right-hand side of every page under "Great Links". I'll expect a similar link position, no better no worse.

sounds that way to me.

As far as the boring part, I was trying to point out that you do need content. A couple ways to get that is sponsor hosted stuff or allow submissions without recips.

Right now your caught in a catch 22. No content because of no submissions. No submissions because you have no content.

[Llam4]

Originally Posted by walrus

As far as the boring part, I was trying to point out that you do need content. A couple ways to get that is sponsor hosted stuff or allow submissions without recips.

Right now your caught in a catch 22. No content because of no submissions. No submissions because you have no content.

Could anybody link me to some sponsors with hosted blogs for filler content please?

[Lemmy]

In addition to what's been said above I think part of your problem may be your insistence on 100% handwritten blogs. That's not a bad thing, on the contrary, but I don't think many stick out that route very long. It seems to be all about loading up with a few feeds and letting the blog run on autopilot these days.

You need to give it time, build up your own reputation and let your site mature.

[T Pat]

You've gotten nothing but sound advice in this thread
I started two new directories this month, one is a toplist that I'm already asking for trades and have recieved 3 so far, the other is a feed aggregator (something like what you have built) it has nothing but sponsor feeds in it. I just looked 299 feeds have given me 6,000+ posts.
I've had the domain online for over a year (just a one page bs site) with no links going to it, Unique Visitors last month 60, Number Of Visits 114, so far this month Unique Visitors 386 Number Of Visits 861
Based on my other aggregator it will take about three months for it to get 500+ Uniques a day (from the search engines) with no trades, that's when I plan to start asking for submissions with a link back.
If your looking to make a fast buck I think your best bet is to start making Free Sites.

You now know more about my business than my wife

[Llam4]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

In addition to what's been said above I think part of your problem may be your insistence on 100% handwritten blogs. That's not a bad thing, on the contrary, but I don't think many stick out that route very long. It seems to be all about loading up with a few feeds and letting the blog run on autopilot these days.

You need to give it time, build up your own reputation and let your site mature.

Problem with feed splogs is there would be batches of new posts with the same exact content added simultaneously every time a certain sponsor feed updated.

Originally Posted by walrus

Re-read your post
sounds that way to me.

You're right, it does sound that way. What I meant to say is that I wanted it in a similar position. On the links page, under an appropriate heading. And I wasn't really expecting any link trades with high traffic sites, I imagined I'd probably mostly be getting trades from newer sites.

If a high traffic site wants to link trades I don't really mind much where my link is as long as it's not the same color as the background.