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DD by now you would have received my PM, this is just to clarify your response here on the forum.

I asked for someone else to look into PB's claims. As I did, and also my conclusion was much in line with what you stated and basically so were their findings.

GG also received a PM from me and I agree with him on this issue and too assure others, that the matter of "most other major LL's is not as it was being represented" regarding index.html.

Yet, one of my guys pointed out that there was a higher incidence of index.html compared to warning.html or index33.html and as you say this really holds no relevancy in regards to total overall submits.

That the only way we could tell this is if we had each and every LL's new submission pages and viewed them and then made our comparisons, which again, is unrealistic.

Now the question hinges upon why look at our competitors or our source of traffic? The first answer is this, acceptance or rejection of our submits. Then there is a matter of placement, once accepted, if accepted, where will we be placed.

As for our competitors an example would best suit this explanation: When someone come up with the idea of category specific recips, it seemed plausible to do so also, to many others. The reasoning behind this is anyone's guess - but one of the reasons given is it keeps visitors happy, knowing they can find other category specific material, all in one place.

Are there other reasons? Probably so. Are submitters and LL owners happy with the new recip rules? Well, only time can tell.

But these are jsut a few reasons why we do research. Even if jsut briefly, some LL's (and I have seen this myself) suggest to new webmasters who have never submitted before, that they take some time to look over their sites and compare sites listed to the ones the submitter intends to submit.

And this brief kind of researching an LL the new submitter gets to know what is and isn't acceptable and if or if not his/her site is comparable to those already listed. It is something we do all day every day and its not jsut for SEO any more, it is for jsut about everything we do.

Nick