Which feedlists are you submitting your blogs to?

[ronnie]

I guess my thing with free hosted stuff, the webmasters don't have an incentive to keep up with it, not like they are paying for it. Probably goes way back to free hosting when there use to be so many scammers, people that let stuff go, hosts redirecting, ect, ect. Many reasons most LL's don't take free hosted stuff and haven't for a long time.

Guess it's sad as there are some folks that are serious. On the other hand if they are that serious, they could be buying a domain and hosting, it doesn't cost that much. Thats how I look at it. If they are really serious they should treat it like a business.

Seems to me T Pat's stuff sends traffic, I should have mentioned that.

There was a big aggregator, one of the first, that use to send good traffic but they turned into a banner farm cluster fuck with sponsor links in the listings, ect. They sent traffic, but sure not going to mention them now. Actually I just checked, they are not even a aggregator any more.

[walrus]

As far as feedlists....None

Simply put, for the most part they don't send traffic.

I'm also not a fan of free hosted stuff for most the the reasons ronnie has already detailed. I know there are some good hard working webmasters on the free hosts which in my mind makes it worse. Because of the advertising that goes along with the host, a free hosted whatever is setup to send more of it's traffic to the free host than me it's trading partner.

I treat linking to anything (directories, aggregators, social bookmark sites, feedlists and link partners) all the same. If I like and / or respect you, you get a link. If I like your site or feel it has something unique to offer, you get a link. If I feel that my surfers might enjoy your site, you get a link.

[Latif]

AHHHH the board ate my post! Maybe it's for the best as it was getting long-winded.

I'll take most incoming links, freehosted or not. (Freehosted stuff I will scrutinize more closely.) I'll take the traffic plus a little PR, and give a little something back to them too.

But yeah I definitely also (greatly) prefer links to/from sites on their own domains. Just don't forget guys that the freehosts do offer you something - you don't have to deal with (or have to figure out!!!) hosting costs, the blog/feedlist script, and all the other stuff that goes along with hosting sites on your own domains.

That said I will never put any serious sites of my own on a freehost, not a chance! I will take the top ad spot, thank you. (Also if you decide to take a holiday for a year or two, what do you do if thumblogger/myfeedlist.com decides to remove your sites?)

Gotta go. T Pat, thanks also for posting, you will probably have some submissions shortly (I will check out your sites first).


If anyone would like to list any feedlists/aggregators that are sending them traffic, I'd love to hear from you.


Cheers,
~ Latif
latifo (at) telus (dot) net

[Latif]

Hey T Pat,

Submitted one blog feed to your three aggregators there.

Had one small problem with the submission to the last at http://www.rssxxxfeed.com/, there's no confirmation message when you press submit, it just takes you back to the form and empties the validation code box.

To me it looked like it didn't go through so I submitted it again.

Maybe might want to add a message saying 'Thanks, submission accepted' -type thing, at least I didn't get one.

Just a headsup.