It's gotten to the point where the "SE benefits" (incoming links, quicker spider access coming to your sites) far outweigh the traffic benefits when submitting to LLs. Most of the submitters I know *only* do it now for SE purposes, any sale the site might possibly make is just a bonus.
Used to be you could submit a freesite and make 3 sales the first week. Now you're lucky if you make 3 sales in the 6 months that it's up (and then some LL owners rip it down). The traffic ain't what it used to be... hence the LL owners trading with TGPs, increasing required number of pictures, making pictures bigger, etc.
If you take away the SE benefits then there really isn't much reason left to submit anymore, unless you like working your ass off for the possibility of an odd once-in-a-blue-moon signup. The time would be better spent doing other things.
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