Linkdump Administration/Promotion input plz

[pornofreek]

Hello,
I am a newwb to this board. I am starting up a linkdump and I am looking for any pointers on their administration. I would love to get any input on :

The best ways to utilise them for traffic. I see that it is not a good thing to put banners on them as I see some linkdump biggies do not like it. I guess that some discreet links to my site / links will get me traffic.

I figure it will be SE food and feed the SE's . What are the main benifits to running one in your opinions ? How does the owner best utilise the traffic that comes to them in your opinion. How does one best promote them in your experience ?

[kristian]

Welcome to the board, pornofreek

I'm not sure I like the business model of link dumps. I think you would do better to consider tgp or link list. Whatever model you choose, I'd advocate zero advertising inititally : add your own galleries and / or sites, hosted on a different domain to your tgp / link dump / free site. New surfers to your site will be put off by excessive advertising. Once you have a high level of bookmarkers, then gradually input increasingly more ads.

[Linkster]

They're a good traffic "router" and are great if you already have some good cj or toplist traffic you want to play with - my opinion - but unless you already have some trash traffic starting one wont do much for you - the reason as far as I know of for the lack of banner and major link type advertising is that you are really pushing the traffic through as fast as you possibly can and just doing a filter job on it.