Changes to recip linking for link list submissions

MadMax · 2005-10-12, 05:19 PM

Some of my submitters have dozens or hundreds of sites listed. If I listed all those sites across all my categories in exchange for one return link on their root page, it would be the end of me.

Recips, when used as supplied, are a form of branding. Most LL owners don't mind the custom text only recip tables, especially since they're primarily used by experienced, good submitters who build quality sites. That said, I think it's fair to say most of us would like our recips to look the way we built them, all things considered.

Recip link traffic makes up a small portion of my total traffic, but it's not insignificant. It's all clicked traffic that more often than not goes directly to a category. From there most of it goes to my submitters, which is exactly the way I like it. I'd rather have a surfer come in and go out the side door, since IMO this is the most targeted traffic.

Yes, I like to see my backlink count go higher in the SEs, but that's not the main point of recips. It's a traffic exchange. Even though recips individually don't generate a bunch of traffic, the traffic they do bring in is valuable and highly targeted. If you link to me from your domain root and I link to your free site, how do I know you've got any traffic at all going to your root? At least I can see the other recips on your free site and know that there's some kind of other traffic coming to the page I'm listing and I have a chance of getting a surfer or two back.

I also can't buy in to the theory that spiders have to "sift through a mountain" to find the links and that this somehow has a negative effect. My bot can crawl 4-8 sites a second looking for my recips and checking for cheats and errors if the sites are on fast servers, and I have to assume that the SE bots are at least that efficient.

I can appreciate your concept in theory, but IMO it's just not practical.

2005-10-12, 05:19 PM	#3
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	Some of my submitters have dozens or hundreds of sites listed. If I listed all those sites across all my categories in exchange for one return link on their root page, it would be the end of me. Recips, when used as supplied, are a form of branding. Most LL owners don't mind the custom text only recip tables, especially since they're primarily used by experienced, good submitters who build quality sites. That said, I think it's fair to say most of us would like our recips to look the way we built them, all things considered. Recip link traffic makes up a small portion of my total traffic, but it's not insignificant. It's all clicked traffic that more often than not goes directly to a category. From there most of it goes to my submitters, which is exactly the way I like it. I'd rather have a surfer come in and go out the side door, since IMO this is the most targeted traffic. Yes, I like to see my backlink count go higher in the SEs, but that's not the main point of recips. It's a traffic exchange. Even though recips individually don't generate a bunch of traffic, the traffic they do bring in is valuable and highly targeted. If you link to me from your domain root and I link to your free site, how do I know you've got any traffic at all going to your root? At least I can see the other recips on your free site and know that there's some kind of other traffic coming to the page I'm listing and I have a chance of getting a surfer or two back. I also can't buy in to the theory that spiders have to "sift through a mountain" to find the links and that this somehow has a negative effect. My bot can crawl 4-8 sites a second looking for my recips and checking for cheats and errors if the sites are on fast servers, and I have to assume that the SE bots are at least that efficient. I can appreciate your concept in theory, but IMO it's just not practical.