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[RobUK]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

well the issue i have is not on an small LL its on some big LLs, although i dont see any reason why an webmaster wont ask a linksite owner of an smaller LL why he or she didnt got listed?

Probably for much the same reason why they won't say when they've blacklisted someone. By the time I've decided that they're actually dumping the submissions rather than hugely backlogged (had another acceptance today for a site that I submitted about 3 months ago) I'll probably have adjusted my submit list to include sites that DO accept.

Sure, for the sites that are really backlogged, I'll put em back on the list for new submissions, but I'm not going to go back and submit old sites to them any more than I'm going to go back and find out why others didn't accept. Even if I did, I doubt they'd know for sure after several months, and it would be unreasonable to expect them to IMHO.

As you say, it takes a lot of time to manually submit to a lot of lists, the return on that investment being traffic and, hopefully, conversions. Submissions to large lists = lots of traffic, submissions to small lists = small (sometimes very small) amounts of traffic. Is it worth investing yet more time in finding out why an old site didn't get listed? Depends on the list, how much time I have etc.

For larger lists, smaller lists that have previously accepted and any list that tells me I've screwed up then yes, it's probably worth it when I have a min. For smaller lists that have never accepted, no, IMHO, it's not. To take up the example Raw Alex gave, it's not unreasonable to say "I don't deliver to that building any more" if they say they want your food but never open the door. On the other hand, if they accept the food then call up and tell me the food was horrible, I'll do my best to make it better next time.

Rob.