Who stoled all the link list traffic?

[Mr Exotic]

I have noticed that my traffic from linklists seems to be down 20-30% from what it was at this point last year. Maybe its just the niches I've been submitting to but from what I can remember I am working the same niches now that I was working this time last year. I'm not really sure what it could be, maybe alot of the lists I submit to are the ones that have taken a big drop, whatever the cause its a little troubling. Especially since I am trying to establish my own link list.

This week I opened up my movies only link list to movie galleries in addition to movie free sites. Not really because I think the doom of link lists are coming, but with some of the SE trends I have been noticing, and the limitations I have encountered by only listing movie free sites. One thing I have been noticing is that TGPs/MGPs seem to have been climbing in the SEs while link lists seem to have been going down. Then by only listing movie free sites I have really been limiting my amount of link backs and the amount of free content I offer my visitors. For the last 6 months or so I've been averaging 12-15 submits a day, of which 10-12 get approved. Maybe I'm a bit delusional thinking I could have the best of both worlds by listing free sites and galleries, maybe it will have no effect whatsoever, maybe it will make my site jump up, who knows, I just felt like I needed to shake things up a bit. I still have no doubts that I will continue to run my site like a link list, I'll never ever skim traffic (I've been down that road too many times to even count in the past). This is something I've been debating and gave tons and tons of thought about the last several months before doing it, and it seems that the benefits will outweigh the possible negative effects. I really cant see negative effects other than spending an hour a day reviewing links rather than 15 minutes.

As far as tube sites go, I wouldnt know. I honestly have never even been to a tube site before. There's no doubt about it, they are the new traffic kings, but its just taking the TGP model to the next extreme and making the quality of traffic even shittier. I cant even imagine giving away 10,000 free full movies and then trying to sale someone a membership to a paysite that might have 30 full movies. People seem to think that if they have enough traffic no matter how shitty they can turn it into money, at some point it just aint going to work anymore. I think there will always be tube sites out there, but very few people running them that will actually be able to make them profitable. Plus with all the legalities that would go with a tube site, it just doesnt seem like it would be profitable enough to even bother. Then you have limitations for a tube site. Not every joe blow with a few hundred bucks out there can start up his own tube site. The bandwidth costs would be astronomical.

[stuveltje]

what i have noticed and still notice after several years free site making and still being listed at the old linksites is, that traffic will go up and down, but when traffic goes down will not say you loose sales......i prefer to submit to a linksite with less traffic then to submit a gallery a day at tgp sites, for me tgp and tube sites are surfers who only wanna look and not wanna buy, so even more traffic wont say more sales and less trafic wont say less sales