LL Owners - The Perfect Freesite ?

[Taass]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

There is an ongoing myth, especially in the TGP area, that things have to be nice & fancy & loaded with graphics & pretty looking & whatnot.

What it all boils down to is of you know how to sell the surfer on at the very least, going to the site that you're promoting.

If you have little or no marketing skills, you might as well get out of the advertising business, which is what all of this Free Site & Gallery stuff is.

Hi Greenguy
We can easily agrea that graphics can quickly become too much.. Imo, it's a great tool though if you can use it as a way for the surfer to quickly recocnise the niche of the content, or to guide their focus, but should not be used in a way where it takes the focus from the content or sponsor link.

It does seem (to me anyways) like free sites has a "no graphics at all" policy though and i was wondering if that was just due to the free site webmasters making them that way or simply because LL owners won't list graphics sites ?

[Taass]

Okay, so now i've made my 'first' freesite and just spent 2 hours (YES TWO HOURS *lol*) submiting it to 9 linklists..
Right now i must admit that i'm not sure if i should laugh or cry, but in any case submiting to linklists has defenetly not gotten easier since the last time i tried it..

Of the 9 LL recieps spots i started out with on the site, 7 had to be replaced.. in one spot i whent through 4 LL's and was about to just quit that spot before i finaly found a reciep for it..(thanks to RichardsRealm for knowing how to make things nice and easy)
Basicly what i have been doing is reading through every LL's rules very carefully, downloading their reciep, placed it on my site, uploaded it to the server..only to hit the LL's submit button and get the message 'Partner submit only'.. Then doing it all over again on the next LL.. Damn, would it really be so hard to write on the top of your submit pages "PARTNERS ONLY" to stop wasting everyone elses time ???

At least the ones i ended up with was nice and easy..(thank you for that) now i just have to wait and see if my site will even get listed at all, or maybe i've just been banned on those for changing my index page those 10-15 times *lol*

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Taass

It does seem (to me anyways) like free sites has a "no graphics at all" policy though and i was wondering if that was just due to the free site webmasters making them that way or simply because LL owners won't list graphics sites ?

I don't mind them & I do list them all the time, but I think it's just that Free Site builders choose to use more text & less graphics on their sites, probably because of SE stuff of the fact that it's 4 pages for a Free Site and just one for a Gallery - or we're all just very lazy or graphics impaired

[Taass]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I don't mind them & I do list them all the time, but I think it's just that Free Site builders choose to use more text & less graphics on their sites, probably because of SE stuff of the fact that it's 4 pages for a Free Site and just one for a Gallery - or we're all just very lazy or graphics impaired

Thanks for that ansver Greenguy, It does make a big difference if you have one page to make the sale or 4 so i guess it makes sence to go lighter on the freesites.

One quick question to your rules :

24. No sites with 3rd party counters will be listed. Get some stats on your server.

I asume that relates to those anoying counters that pops up a lot of crap if you click them, but would a hidden counter be allowed on a page submited to you ?
(..or did i fuck up allready)

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Taass

One quick question to your rules :
I asume that relates to those anoying counters that pops up a lot of crap if you click them, but would a hidden counter be allowed on a page submited to you ?
(..or did i fuck up allready)

Counters tend to set off alarms if you have your bowser set correctly, so if we see an alarm, we look at the source & see what caused it & then delete the submission if it's a counter.

Since the rule has been in place for 3 or 4 months now, we're also starting to ban those that repeatedly submit sites with counters.

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Hey Sammy