I'm declaring the thread's topic dead. I shall leave it forgotten, covered with maggots on the roadside. |shocking|
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Originally Posted by Mr Spock
Surely much more text is required (unlinked) with the punchline linked? What are your thoughts?
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At the risk of sounding like a rebel, I'm going to give you my thoughts. You'll have wished that you hadn't asked and, by the time you're doing reading this, you'll wonder why you asked.
I've been thinking about free sites a lot lately. OK, not a LOT,but more than I should.
The free sites which are being submitted to link lists are
not designed for sales or search engines. They're designed for a quick and easy review.
There are three kinds of people who
make a living off of these free sites today:
Those who build and submit every day.
Those who are on the top of their sales text writing game.
Those who are a combination of the first two.
Anyone can earn a few bucks off of free sites - even me (I have the $25 checks to prove it), but few make their living from them.
I wonder why people fret over the idea of link lists using rel="nofollow". Do they actually believe that their free sites are anything special? Do they think that a free site is a SE powerhouse waiting to take the SERPS by storm? Peshaa! They're shit. They're pretty, but they're shit.
They're pretty shit.
Fuck. I forgot what my point was. Ummm...
Oh yeah -
free sites should have more pages, though
not more content than what we use now. Spread it out a bit.
Keep the warning page since it makes the most sales (probably because link list surfers are idiots and have given up looking for content and are now willing to pay, not knowing that the pics are another page away). I'd
drop the main page and any other sort of consolidated navigation system. The free site
should be linear; one page after the other. Each gallery page would have 5-8 nice thumbs. Nice, as in quality and size. Each page would have much more text.
Not just keyword stuffed BS, but a common man's review of the site being promoted. Every page would be of a similar theme, but each would have a slightly different keyword phrase being pushed. The page would be named for that phrase and the anchor text used in the link to that page, found on the preceding gallery page, would use that phrase. And of course, the pics would named according to the page they're on, using minor variations of the page's set of keywords. For 24 pics, you could easily have four SEO'd gallery pages, plus a warning page.
I also think that the links out on a page should be determined by the flow and design of the page, not by a set limit. (ducking to avoid flying tomatoes) Why 3? Why not 2, or 7? It's an arbitrary number, isn't it?
So, what I'm trying to say is, yes - more text.
