Your Recip Link Code is GREEDY Mr. LL owner

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Originally posted by MadMax
My free site recips are 184x67 (what I saw as splitting the difference, keeping them narrower than the 200 px that's become extremely common.

I can only speak for myself on this, but I want to generate some branding as well as getting the SE benefits of text recips. If they're so small that they end up either illegible or unnoticed then branding is right out the window.

Thanks for caring enough to write so much Max.. and dont think I am jumping on you... but you hit what I see as the base problem on the head... Everyone thinks like you do... thats why we got here..

if lots of people made a 250 wide recip, would that make a 225 wide one then reasonable? Or better?

Tommy was the 1 person who got away with demanding a big recip for his own branding in the old days as far I recall.. and I havent seen more than a very small handfull of other linksites over the years good enough to justify the same imho..

Also, while no one free site gives me a lot of traffic back from my recips, they all send at least a few hits a month which really starts to add up as the database grows.

They will NEVER add up to a hill of beans... and you dont want to take SE clicks away from freesite webmasters.. it's your job to attract the SE traffic and send it to them.

If surfers click to freesites from linksites... and want to try another linksite, they will soon learn where to find then, at the bottom of the page... the last thing, the least important thing on the page... direct SE visitors should be seing the enter link... for ALL our benefit.