DAYUM it's getting harder and harder to find decent linklists that actually review

[Jel]

Originally Posted by Bill

Exactly. They said I wouldn't have any traffic cuz i didn't have the same 30+ links to lists they had. And suggested I sub this 5 year old blog to have traffic worth linking too, and then they might link. Nice keyword matching in the names too. Such is life.

To be fair to them, it's not like it was a blog with big traffic. I suck at blogging.

Sounds like you had a lucky escape Bill. Pointless subbing a blog with a nice root link to a bunch of directories where you get buried on domain.com/category/page1234567.html, no matter how much the initial burst of traffic.

[Mr Spock]

Originally Posted by Jel

Sounds like you had a lucky escape Bill. Pointless subbing a blog with a nice root link to a bunch of directories where you get buried on domain.com/category/page1234567.html, no matter how much the initial burst of traffic.

Complete waste of time submitting to blog directories - think about it if you eventually get a 100 posts on your blog and thats not difficult - the directories end up with a 100 backlinks and all you gets is a crappy listing and and poor traffic.

You get better traffic to a blog if you submit it to some of the bigger LL and Tommys and Shemp both accept blogs now as well.

Regarding the issue of more LL folding , Is that such a bad thing? My take is that the less LL competing for surfers will result in more traffic from the bigger LLs.

Another reason why a lot of smaller LL are closing is that the owners are just assholes - nothing pisses me off more than getting a rejection e-mail from a minnow because my recip is for the wrong category. This instantly gets that LL assigned to the shitlist for 2 reasons ,

a) - because the wm is an asshole for being so picky
b) - because the wm is dumb fucktard , if you really believe that category recip linking is still beneficial to your LL , then you just don't have a clue about SEO in 2010 and its doubtful that you can send any traffic.

So I think its a good thing that some of the smaller LL are being removed from the scene. I checked my stats to one of my sponsors and noticed that hits from LL are more than hits from TGPs - and I don't submit as regularly as I should. Based on those numbers I still think its worth it to submit to LL.

[LD]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

Regarding the issue of more LL folding , Is that such a bad thing? My take is that the less LL competing for surfers will result in more traffic from the bigger LLs.

good point...

fwiw, In the 2 or 3 years I've been subbing, I haven't seen any small list become a big one. It seems to me we are destined to have 3 or 4 big list and a bunch of small/mid sized ones. In an environment where things change weekly, even daily, I am surprised the status quo is still firmly intact in the world of link list.