Death of the Category Recip

MeatPounder · 2010-07-13, 01:42 PM

Deep Category recips are most likely worth more then general recips true.
From what I've heard and seen search engines really do like links to specific pages within a site...it gives the site more breadth and depth.

Problem is it creates a nightmare for free site submitters, when cat recips became an accepted (and required by some) demand by many link lists, it took more time to do the recip table for a submission then it took to actually build the site.

So many link lists have dozens if not many more cats..with new cats added constantly, also every link list had their own list specific cats.

When it got to the point I had to have over 50 prebuilt recip tables for the same group of link lists, along with demand for the exact use of poorly coded link list built recips (you would have to go into the recips and change their default colors with every free site color scheme for example), and when ever you decided to add or remove a link list from a submission group you would have to go and redesign 50 pre-built tables or more (one for each category or sub category or sub sub category).... I basically gave up

Never mind the headache of you and any specific link list actually having different opinions of what Cat the site acutually was (with general recips reviewers constantly may move the site to another cat, but less likely to do so when a cat recip was there, in that case the reviewer was more likely to reject the site)

So though deep linking is great from static or semi static pages, requiring it for free site submissions was one of the main reasons I stopped building

Bill · 2010-07-13, 09:15 PM

It might be just superstition. post hoc ergo propter hoc

But not long after we all adopted cat recips, linklists started losing position in the google serps, a loss that has gotten way worse and shows no sign of repairing itself.

There are several/many possible explanations for this, the predictable artifice of the cat link only one of many.

In any event, the historical truth is, when cat links started, traffic to freesites fell.

Yes, maybe it was falling anyway and cat links were a LL owners attempt to recover. who can say.

2010-07-13, 01:42 PM	#1
MeatPounder Women might be able to fake orgasms But men can fake whole relationships Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fl Posts: 2,408	Deep Category recips are most likely worth more then general recips true. From what I've heard and seen search engines really do like links to specific pages within a site...it gives the site more breadth and depth. Problem is it creates a nightmare for free site submitters, when cat recips became an accepted (and required by some) demand by many link lists, it took more time to do the recip table for a submission then it took to actually build the site. So many link lists have dozens if not many more cats..with new cats added constantly, also every link list had their own list specific cats. When it got to the point I had to have over 50 prebuilt recip tables for the same group of link lists, along with demand for the exact use of poorly coded link list built recips (you would have to go into the recips and change their default colors with every free site color scheme for example), and when ever you decided to add or remove a link list from a submission group you would have to go and redesign 50 pre-built tables or more (one for each category or sub category or sub sub category).... I basically gave up Never mind the headache of you and any specific link list actually having different opinions of what Cat the site acutually was (with general recips reviewers constantly may move the site to another cat, but less likely to do so when a cat recip was there, in that case the reviewer was more likely to reject the site) So though deep linking is great from static or semi static pages, requiring it for free site submissions was one of the main reasons I stopped building Last edited by MeatPounder; 2010-07-13 at 01:45 PM..

2010-07-13, 09:15 PM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	It might be just superstition. post hoc ergo propter hoc But not long after we all adopted cat recips, linklists started losing position in the google serps, a loss that has gotten way worse and shows no sign of repairing itself. There are several/many possible explanations for this, the predictable artifice of the cat link only one of many. In any event, the historical truth is, when cat links started, traffic to freesites fell. Yes, maybe it was falling anyway and cat links were a LL owners attempt to recover. who can say.