Hosted free sites on your link list.

[AcidMaX]

Ok if you go to a sponsor and they have say 10 hosted free sites per site they have, do you add all 10 hosted free sites, or do you just pick 1 or 2 of the best ones that you think would convert and add those?

What about if the girls are the same, it seems to me having 3 free sites with similar pics would be stupid.

The reason I am asking is because I am launching another link list and this time I am populating it with a ton of hosted free sites first, before I take submissions.

Just curious as to what you would do.

Andy

[Cleo]

If it is galleries then I just copy and paste everything into my gallery rotator without even looking at them other to see what niche they would fit in, more the better.

If it is free sites then I have to actually review each one and add a title and description in so I am much more picky and often will only add in the better ones. Did I mention that my conversions are much better from free sites then galleries.

[DangerDave]

Your choice Andy...

..but if its a real linklist think about what the surfer is going to want to see.

DD

[AcidMaX]

Thanks for the info DD & Cleo, my gut was telling me, (especially since I was populating a new site) that if I add all the sites it will look stupid to have 3 free sites in a row to the same content/site.

Therefore I think I will just pick out 1 or 2 and thats it and just put the best ones up on the site.

Thanks for the advice, you guys rock

And yes Cleo I agree, I have had much better conversions with my freesites / link lists than I ever did with TGP, thats why I am trying to launch a couple more link lists, maybe if I own a 100 of them and they all get 1, $1 email signup a day I will be ok

HAHAHA

Andy

[Greenguy]

AcidMaX - one downside to loading up your link list with hosted free sites is that you *may* be mistaken for a hub & not a "legit" link list.

That being said, I have every hosted free site I can find on my link list

[AcidMaX]

Originally posted by Greenguy
AcidMaX - one downside to loading up your link list with hosted free sites is that you *may* be mistaken for a hub & not a "legit" link list.

That being said, I have every hosted free site I can find on my link list

Maybe you can expand for the newbie Do you mean mistaken by an SE or mistaken by the surfer?

I do plan on taking submissions, i just wanted to load it up with some galleries before I started taking submissions.

Do you normally mix up the free sites though GG, or do you just add them in order and say to hell with it ?

Thanks,
Andy

[Greenguy]

I actually meant in the webmasters eyes - we decline a lot of link lists & tgp's that look like they are nothing but hosted sites/galleries. (meaning that a submitting webmaster *may* not think it's a "legit" link list)

As far as how I add free sites, let's take Extreme Paychecks as an example, as they release 10-14 new free sites each week - I'll add 2 per day - and their freesites are good in that they are on different domaisn, so adding more then 1 will not make it look like I'm adding a bunch of the same sites/domains each day.

For the most part, it's 1 per day when the sponsors release new ones until I run out.

But I am an exception to the rule, because I have 8000+ links already, so throwing another 3-400 hosted free sites in isn;t going to distract from my regular listings.

Of course, you could hide the fact that you're putting in hosted free sites with creative mouseovers