Custom Reciprocals ?

fatum · 2005-12-23, 07:54 PM

After a few years off the business i decided to turn back and focus on submitting free sites. I have been reading the board for a couple of weeks now and i am quite familiar with the basics and the rules of free site submitting. I used to build avs sites in the past so it should not be much different i guess. However i intent to be 100% compliant with the rules so I have lots of questions to be asked and to make sure everything is ok before starting my submissions...

Long sentence short, i am wondering if its ok to create custom reciprocals. I started collection recip links from LL's and put them in a table but the overall picture looks like, well... shit.
Some has 50*50 banner while the other has 300*300 and it just doesnt look nice.
What i want to use is text links like :

SITE NAME
niche name

I know thats ok since i saw this kind of recips in many sites but i want to make sure that its 100% OK ?

Any tips for creating custom text recips or anything i should avoid ?

HC-Majick · 2005-12-23, 08:01 PM

a search for "custom recips" should give you many threads on this subject.
Short answer is most LL's prefer you to use their own recips, but will accept custom recips as long as you use the same anchor text as they use in theirs and your custom recip looks decent.

MadMax · 2005-12-23, 08:20 PM

Yup, Majick's pretty much got it. Use the same text as the LL's recip, if there's a "title" tag in the link leave the title tag, but as long as you're doing custom recips for everyone most of us don't mind.

Preacher · 2005-12-23, 08:38 PM

I eat up custom recip's like a fat guy on cheesecake. In other words I love them!

MrYum · 2005-12-23, 10:36 PM

I'm with the Preacher on this one (NEVER thought I'd hear those words outta my mouth!)

I prefer custom recips as it's much easier to create a tight clean recip table. When I do free sites myself, I always use custom recips and have zero problems getting my sites accepted. The other upside is you can get a few more recips on the page and still keep it looking goooood

Xeno · 2005-12-30, 07:34 AM

With ours I've designed them as part text banner and part image and generally require webmasters to use them without modifications. However, I know some webmasters only use text links (as you outlined) and that is something we allow as long as it has the two links...one to our homepage and one to the actual category your site is submitted to. We've also recently added a pay feature (one time fee) for any submissions that don't wish to use a recip at all...

2005-12-23, 07:54 PM	#1
fatum Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 26	Custom Reciprocals ? After a few years off the business i decided to turn back and focus on submitting free sites. I have been reading the board for a couple of weeks now and i am quite familiar with the basics and the rules of free site submitting. I used to build avs sites in the past so it should not be much different i guess. However i intent to be 100% compliant with the rules so I have lots of questions to be asked and to make sure everything is ok before starting my submissions... Long sentence short, i am wondering if its ok to create custom reciprocals. I started collection recip links from LL's and put them in a table but the overall picture looks like, well... shit. Some has 5050 banner while the other has 300300 and it just doesnt look nice. What i want to use is text links like : SITE NAME niche name I know thats ok since i saw this kind of recips in many sites but i want to make sure that its 100% OK ? Any tips for creating custom text recips or anything i should avoid ?

2005-12-23, 08:01 PM	#2
HC-Majick You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 541	a search for "custom recips" should give you many threads on this subject. Short answer is most LL's prefer you to use their own recips, but will accept custom recips as long as you use the same anchor text as they use in theirs and your custom recip looks decent. __________________ Submit Your Freesites:

2005-12-23, 08:38 PM	#4
Preacher There's Xanax in my thurible! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wherever they screw on my head Posts: 2,441	I eat up custom recip's like a fat guy on cheesecake. In other words I love them! __________________ NSCash * This Depraved World

2005-12-23, 10:36 PM	#5
MrYum Arghhhh...submit yer sites ya ruddy swabs! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sunny Florida! Posts: 5,108	I'm with the Preacher on this one (NEVER thought I'd hear those words outta my mouth!) I prefer custom recips as it's much easier to create a tight clean recip table. When I do free sites myself, I always use custom recips and have zero problems getting my sites accepted. The other upside is you can get a few more recips on the page and still keep it looking goooood __________________ Porno Flixxx Submissions SOTI Site Submissions Free Porn Resource Submissions

2005-12-30, 07:34 AM	#6
Xeno Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast? Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 494	With ours I've designed them as part text banner and part image and generally require webmasters to use them without modifications. However, I know some webmasters only use text links (as you outlined) and that is something we allow as long as it has the two links...one to our homepage and one to the actual category your site is submitted to. We've also recently added a pay feature (one time fee) for any submissions that don't wish to use a recip at all... __________________ Why I never sleep anymore... Web Designing

2005-12-23, 08:20 PM	#3
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	Yup, Majick's pretty much got it. Use the same text as the LL's recip, if there's a "title" tag in the link leave the title tag, but as long as you're doing custom recips for everyone most of us don't mind.