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[MadMax]

Originally Posted by LowryBigwood

I don't follow how these recips would become outdated. Unless the linklist owner decides to change his anchor text or title tag.

Some of us do this on a halfway regular basis for SEO reasons

Originally Posted by LowryBigwood

Figuring out how to group the LL's together to satisfy everyone might be a problem. I was gonna have it grab the niche recips at random from a pool of LL's, and place them into your table. Of course those LL's that only want to be grouped with other large LL's, could pose a problem for submitters, gonna have to give that some though and try to figure out a solution.

Submitters group certain recips together for different reasons. Some build sites slightly differently depending on an LLs rules and their personal preferences, then group the recips accordingly. Some group by traffic sent, etc. Some submitters won't want to submit to some of the LLs you have in your DB. In order for a tool like this to be valuable to a range of submitters they would need to be able to choose which recips to use and how to group the recips.

Also, having recips randomly grouped, making them all grouped differently from one niche to the next, would make submitting the right page to the right LL a real pain.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by MadMax

Some of us do this on a halfway regular basis for SEO reasons

I'd be willing to keep it updated, but the LL owners would need to notify me of the changes.

Originally Posted by MadMax

In order for a tool like this to be valuable to a range of submitters they would need to be able to choose which recips to use and how to group the recips.

I think I can figure out how to make that work.

Originally Posted by MadMax

Also, having recips randomly grouped, making them all grouped differently from one niche to the next, would make submitting the right page to the right LL a real pain.

If I can figure out how to make it work, I'm thinking of having the webmaster submit page urls for the LL's recips that were used, printed to the browser beside the code output for the recips, that way, you'd have a quick submit list right there beside the recips code. That might make things easier.

Hoping to make this tool useful for all submitters, and with these ideas, I think I can make it happen.

Thanks again!

[swedguy]

Originally Posted by LowryBigwood

I'd be willing to keep it updated, but the LL owners would need to notify me of the changes.

You would have a better chance keeping it updated if you do that yourself. Write a script that checks if they're updated or not. Considering the amount of new services popping up, LL webmasters would need a half-time employee to tell people about updates

And I don't have a problem with custom recips

[Useless]

There is another site that does that already, which I found after telling everyone that I had built the the largest link list recip depository in the free world. I was wrong. But from what I'm told, their database is even more outdated than mine.

When I first built my database, many, many people suggested that I go forward and script the same project that you are proposing to do now. But I didn't, and it was due to pretty much the same reasons that have been mentioned here already. It looked like more hassle than what it would be worth.

One of the bigger hurdles is the fact that not all link lists have the same categories or even define like-named categories in the same way. Plus, many have split major categories into soft and hard, ie - Ebony and Ebony Hardcore. It becomes a situation where there are so many options that need to be scripted to ensure the correct recip table is built, that it becomes a somewhat user-unfriendly script.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

When I first built my database, many, many people suggested that I go forward and script the same project that you are proposing to do now. But I didn't, and it was due to pretty much the same reasons that have been mentioned here already. It looked like more hassle than what it would be worth.

One of the bigger hurdles is the fact that not all link lists have the same categories or even define like-named categories in the same way. Plus, many have split major categories into soft and hard, ie - Ebony and Ebony Hardcore. It becomes a situation where there are so many options that need to be scripted to ensure the correct recip table is built, that it becomes a somewhat user-unfriendly script.

I'm starting to see it your way UW. At first, I thought it would be much more simpler. It does seem like more hassle than what it would be worth. If I do go ahead with this project, I will try to incorporate all these things you all mentioned, but as UW said, it might not be very user friendly at that point. Needs much more thought and planning I guess. Thanks everyone!