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Originally Posted by Carrie
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.
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That's an interesting take and I certainly felt the same way about the SE benefits when I got into it. I'm not sure if your referring specifically to just getting your site "spidered" more often in which case, ya you are probably right. But for PR benefit and getting specifc FS listed I think the marketplace has shown that both are pretty low liklihoods. Hence maybe the move towards submitting to LL's you know are high in traffic or aren't going to disappear next month (like mine). But, I don't think you can deny that the spiders will come as a result of your FS listing and is a good reason for expecting an LL to not use the nofollow tag. Perhaps the best and only place for a nofollow tag is strictly on sponsor galleries.
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Originally Posted by Carrie
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.
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My guess is that lower sales is due to more competition.