Setting Up A Directory: My Adventures

Useless · 2006-04-17, 08:38 PM

Guess I chose a good day to be away from the desk.

Here is my little bitty bit o' input on accepting galleries on a link list, and yes - I definately agree that by mixing galleries and free site listings, by default, means it is not a link list. (allow me to duck as DD tosses a brick at my head) I believe GG prefers the term 'morphed conglomerate'.

I still list galleries from a very small handful of submitters on WW. But I did not build a link list with the intention of accepting galleries. It was the other way around. I had a crappy TGP that I decided to slowly phase into a link list to see if it could be salvaged. Every week I try to weed out more and more old galleries. If there is one thing I have noticed since I began accepting free site submissions, it's that galleries on a non-skim site are nothing more than a traffic leak. A couple of my current gallery submitters do submit gals that bring in some hits, but most are dead wait. (Free sites and link lists have a much more cooperative relationship.) So, if you really want my opinion, it would be to toss the gallery listings out the door, or at the very least, keep them seperate from the free site listings the way Cleo does.

MrYum · 2006-04-17, 10:27 PM

wow...this certainly took an ugly turn

Interesting point of contention too. I'm very close to opening FPP to TGP submissions, as well as a complete redesign. Several reasons for the decision, not the least of which is more submissions = more content. Actually I get quite a few submissions every day, just not that many listable sites. Rather than lowering my standards and accepting some of the absolute garbage that gets submitted by the 'teams', I'd rather open to galleries and continue maintaining my quality standards by only accepting quality galleries.

Yea, perhaps no longer a link list by the conventional wisdom, but is it really that much different? This is almost a tomato/tomato thing to me. It is still a site that lists links to content...whether that content be free sites/pay sites/tgp galleries...it's all content.

Anyway, sorry to see this thread get off track...was a lot of good information floating around in here.

2006-04-17, 08:38 PM	#1
Useless Certified Nice Person Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dirty Undies, NY Posts: 11,268	Guess I chose a good day to be away from the desk. Here is my little bitty bit o' input on accepting galleries on a link list, and yes - I definately agree that by mixing galleries and free site listings, by default, means it is not a link list. (allow me to duck as DD tosses a brick at my head) I believe GG prefers the term 'morphed conglomerate'. I still list galleries from a very small handful of submitters on WW. But I did not build a link list with the intention of accepting galleries. It was the other way around. I had a crappy TGP that I decided to slowly phase into a link list to see if it could be salvaged. Every week I try to weed out more and more old galleries. If there is one thing I have noticed since I began accepting free site submissions, it's that galleries on a non-skim site are nothing more than a traffic leak. A couple of my current gallery submitters do submit gals that bring in some hits, but most are dead wait. (Free sites and link lists have a much more cooperative relationship.) So, if you really want my opinion, it would be to toss the gallery listings out the door, or at the very least, keep them seperate from the free site listings the way Cleo does. __________________ Click here to purchase a bridge I'm selling.

2006-04-17, 10:27 PM	#2
MrYum Arghhhh...submit yer sites ya ruddy swabs! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sunny Florida! Posts: 5,108	wow...this certainly took an ugly turn Interesting point of contention too. I'm very close to opening FPP to TGP submissions, as well as a complete redesign. Several reasons for the decision, not the least of which is more submissions = more content. Actually I get quite a few submissions every day, just not that many listable sites. Rather than lowering my standards and accepting some of the absolute garbage that gets submitted by the 'teams', I'd rather open to galleries and continue maintaining my quality standards by only accepting quality galleries. Yea, perhaps no longer a link list by the conventional wisdom, but is it really that much different? This is almost a tomato/tomato thing to me. It is still a site that lists links to content...whether that content be free sites/pay sites/tgp galleries...it's all content. Anyway, sorry to see this thread get off track...was a lot of good information floating around in here. __________________ Porno Flixxx Submissions SOTI Site Submissions Free Porn Resource Submissions