Why The Chameleon Link List Submitter Might Be A Bad Investment

[Greenguy]

From Today's Newsletter

Anyone that knows me from my years on the boards would easily be able to tell you that I don't like autosubmitters. You know the kind - you fill out some info in a program & your site is automatically submitted to X number of Link Lists with the press of a button. The problems with this? Well.....
New rule on the Link List? The Autosubmitter never sees it.
Did the Link List add new recips? Not on the Autosubmitters sites.
12 or so new categories added? The Autosubmitter wouldn't know & your Femdom Strapon site ends up in a general Fetish category.

The lovely people at Chameleon Submitter appear to think that these problems are ok (or at least not their problem once you've purchased your license) They recently released a Link List Submitter & sure enough, even though I was NOT contacted by them, 3 of my Link Lists showed up in their autosubmission database. Now, even if you think it's ok that they did not contact me, I can say that on the rules page for each of the 3 Link Lists, it says "NO AUTOSUBMITTING" Apparently, the Chameleon people don't read the rules pages of the sites they include in their database.

Chameleon has stated that their product does not have to be used as an autosubmitter & that it does have a handy recip link builder incorporated into it. That's all fine & dandy, except the name of the product is not "The Chameleon Recip Builder".

The one thing that might be the worst part of all of this? Money. Chameleon charges $24.95/month to $179/year for their Link List submitter. Does the Link List see any of this? Nope. But that's not what should have you ticked off. Let's say that you paid for this, only to find out that a lot of the Link Lists in their database not only do not accept autosubmissions, but they also blacklist people for using autosubmit programs like this as well as remove all of your existing listings. Do you really want to pay money to have that done to you?

Now don't get me wrong - there are a lot of Link Lists that do not mind being in the database. And even I think that, in the hands of the right people, autosubmitting software has it's benefits & uses. But not everyone out there are the "right" people. Hell, I know some very popular Link Lists that say in public that they do not allow autosubmitters, but behind closed doors, they do allow trusted webmasters to use such programs. I'm not saying I'm one of these people, I'm just saying that I know it happens. Trust me

Bottom line is that people, like webCleo, are getting ripped off by Chameleon Submitter and I personally think it's just plain wrong. I was going to ask for Chameleon to comment on this, but since they didn't ask me if I wanted my Link Lists in their database...

Feel free to discuss.