hjnet - Im not sure exactly what you mean about the SEO value of recips on free sites autosubmitted?? Best I can tell, most LLs dont list autosubmitted sites, so there wouldnt be any page rank flow for Google unless the submitter happened to use a free site that he developed to something with an amazing page rank inherent on that page - again the stupidity to waste something like that would not be in the submitters interest. From a historical basis and some good guessing at page rank since there is no reliable indicator anymore, I would say that I havent had a free site autosubmitted that would give any search engine benefit in at least 5 years that Ive been watching for the autosubmitters. I also dont have any anchor text on my recips as I only use request a link to the index page and dont use category recips anymore as they obviously had no effect on search engine placement (ranking) and were discontinued over a year ago. I would go so far as to say that the recip links on free sites have a miniscule effect on ranking (if any) and therefore I have very little concern for that line of reasoning
As far as the 2 hits a month - again - that would only apply to free sites that actually got listed on other LLs as well - something that usually doesnt happen - and if those two hits produce anything - well Ill just keep it thank you
This is a discussion that we have on this board probably every 6 months although the recip question probably was discussed here rather recently and it gets old - but just like anything that people are misled into believing it just wont go away