[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

Interesting. But will everyone else accept fs 1.5?...

Everyone? No. But I'm also betting that ZERO Link List owners that frequent this board will accept them either.

Originally Posted by Licker4U

All this does is knock out one whole page of ads and possible sales....

That's always been one of the selling points of building Free Sites.

Originally Posted by TekAngel

I don't understand how is this going to "Decrease free sites mirroring"...

It doesn't. Assuming that everyone changed, you'd still have the same number of mirrors, but now it's main page mirrors instead of warning page mirrors.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

...This is a great idea and a great discussion. I *think* even himself may have said that the free site has needed to be revamped for quite some time.

I was thinking more along the lines of 3 & 4 gallery Free Sites (and if my mind was normal, I'd have suggested that a year ago)

Originally Posted by Preacher

I like the idea of streamlining freesite navigation, especially from a linklists perception...

Have you surfed your Free Sites lately?

Originally Posted by ponygirl

...I like the idea of having to put the tags in there...

That's the ONLY good idea Kit has.

Originally Posted by SheepGuy

I like it. I like it a lot!
When I first started building free sites (way back when, not in the last few years) it wasn't so regimented and they all didn't look the same. Any ideas that will allow a little more creativity are fine by me, and might even convince me to build fs's again.
Whether I do or not I'll definitely list free sites that don't fit the standard warning-main-gallery1-gallery2 grind. I'm listing some galleries now because the free site model is boring to me, and I would imagine it's boring to surfers as well.
I believe it is time for some free-thinking, and some changes to the rigid rules so many LL's live by.
Shit, if somebody was to send me a site made up of 3 galleries with no warning page I'd list it.

How does going from warning-main-gallery1-gallery2 to main-gallery1-gallery2-gallery3 allow for more creativity? If anything, it's a decrease in creativity, as you are removing a page that is designed very differently from the other 3 & adding another copy of the gallery template.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

...Most free site builders put ZERO effort in to SEO or effective sales text on any of their pages...

WAIT! HOLD THE PHONE! After reading that & then re-reading Kit's post, I have a new way of thinking! Kit's not worried about his SE traffic. He's worried about YOURS! Think about it. He's not changing the structure of his Link List, he's asking you to change so that you get more hits from Google! Well fuck me! Kit deserves a metal or some other prestigious award. Putting all Free Site builders ahead of himself, tracking the listings of Free Sites in Google for years & years & years & coming up with this fantastic concept! I think everyone should bow down & kiss the ground that Kit walks on! B-R-A-V-O!

(excuse me while I throw up)

Back to Useless's statement - Kit thinks that his plan will benefit Free Site listings in Google. There is no other way to look at this, as he says "google" or "SE" 5 times in his 1st 7 sentences. And what you put up there about "ZERO effort" is a big part of the problem. People get out what they put in & SE's are no different. If you have all your Free Sites on a domain that are not linked to a hub on the index page, you either have no concern about SE traffic (which is fine) or your not educated enough on SE methods to be worried about it. I use this as one example of MANY things that webmasters can do to better their sites in SE's. Removing one page & adding another to a small area of your network is not going to increase or decrease your SE listings.