Linklists and Free Sites: How Do We Move Forward?

[kit]

Nice point mb, but have you idea, how really stop the "cookie-cutter, auto-generated spam sites"? I think this is impossible. Smart webmasters already do as you stated, but there is 80% lazy ones still here and you (and we all) have no power to drop them.

[mb]

Originally Posted by kit

Nice point mb, but have you idea, how really stop the "cookie-cutter, auto-generated spam sites"? I think this is impossible. Smart webmasters already do as you stated, but there is 80% lazy ones still here and you (and we all) have no power to drop them.

Hoes.com has been doing this for a while. We don't accept most of the sites that are submitted to us. Only the good ones pushing unique content with a clean design that doesn't appear to be auto generated. Our experience has taught us what to look for. I can pick out the hand-made free sites in a heartbeat.

If all linklists scrutinized the sites they list more, it would weed out the bad seeds.

It's not hard to do that.
marc