Day 1 continues...- Few tips for start...
Allways put whole your site in one table and make it 650 pixels width! I've seen too many newbies making sites and galleries without this so they got pictures,text and banners allover the place! Greenguy was write article once about tables and I think he knows a thing or two about link lists and free sites so do a search for his article
About sponsors and their content... Like I said before, if you just starting try to find smaller sponsor with not so overused content. Many of sponsors have sales reps so hit them on icq and sak for content if you can't buy it at start. If you don't make money neither they do.
Having hard time to get listed on link lists? Ask them why and ask them whate they need! Theres tons of people doing teen niche so if you doing it too ofcourse it will be harder and will take more time to get listed! Pick smaller niche for start and stick to it 'till you make some bling bling!
Make recip tables! Look at mine:
recip tables anime . After you collect all recips and make these table its piece of cake to do mirror sites each day!
Don't check your stats 47 times a day! Its simple waste of time and time is money in our case. Take a time and it takes a time. You'll get best results and ratios after search engines start to picking your sites and for that you need to wait.
Theres more to come but all in all its just hard daily work and nothing else. Just watch what I am doing and follow the steps

Right now I am going to do another free site and submit it to everyone and his mother too.