ATTN: Webmasters submitting to the hoes.com gay category

[mezzanine]

I've recently noticed there's some confusion on the part of several webmasters submitting their freesites to the subcategories of the gay section at hoes.com. What I'm finding is that they're either not submitting the site to the correct subcategory or they're using the incorrect recip.

For instance, if the content you are promoting focuses on a situation involving twinks, please use the twink recip we provide and submit the site to our twink category. Too often I see sites being submitted to our twink category, but the site is using the 'gay fucking' recip or 'free gay movies' recip. I reviewed a site today submitted to the gay/big dick category and the content was promoting the niche, but the webmaster chose to use the 'twink' recip. I had no choice, but to decline the site.

Ultimately, your sites will be accepted if the recip matches the category that the site was submitted to as long as both match the content being promoted.

Chuck

[Greenguy]

Hoes declines sites if they have the incorrect category link/text in the recip?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Hoes declines sites if they have the incorrect category link/text in the recip?

There are a couple of places that do that. I don't sub to hoes anymore, but there are recip nazis in several places.

It doesn't make sense, knowing what we now know about the devaluing of reciprocal linking and repitition of anchor text, but it's very common to see people using search engine theories and language that are years out of date.

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by Bill

...I don't sub to hoes anymore...

What a strange coincidence.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Preacher

What a strange coincidence.

Hoes is excellent traffic and marc's a good guy. I'm the first person who replied to his initial post on greenies old board, annoucing the startup of hoes. I've always admired his project.

But, I don't approve of his policy on "Click Here" - and I can afford to do without his traffic, so I stopped subbing when he started that policy. It's nice being successful enough that you can say "I don't agree with your policy, so I won't sub to you because of it.". I recognize most people can't afford to do that.

That's the only reason I don't sub there anymore.

But, for search engine purposes, it doesn't make sense to only accept a site because the links point to another page on the site, especially if it is a related page. And it really doesn't make sense to demand one specific anchor text if the webmaster is willing to write unique anchor text.

Knowing what we now now about how google treats too-similar anchor text and recip links, the link list owners should be ebncouraging people to write their own anchor text, and should be happier to get a link to a non reciprocal page than to a reciprocal page.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Bill

But, for search engine purposes, it doesn't make sense to only accept a site because the links point to another page on the site, especially if it is a related page.

My writing error was bugging me, this should read:

"But, for search engine purposes, it doesn't make sense to _not_ accept a site _only_ because the links point to another page on the site, especially if it is a related page."

[mb]

Originally Posted by Bill

Hoes is excellent traffic and marc's a good guy. I'm the first person who replied to his initial post on greenies old board, annoucing the startup of hoes. I've always admired his project.

But, I don't approve of his policy on "Click Here" - and I can afford to do without his traffic, so I stopped subbing when he started that policy. It's nice being successful enough that you can say "I don't agree with your policy, so I won't sub to you because of it.". I recognize most people can't afford to do that.

That's the only reason I don't sub there anymore.

But, for search engine purposes, it doesn't make sense to only accept a site because the links point to another page on the site, especially if it is a related page. And it really doesn't make sense to demand one specific anchor text if the webmaster is willing to write unique anchor text.

Knowing what we now now about how google treats too-similar anchor text and recip links, the link list owners should be ebncouraging people to write their own anchor text, and should be happier to get a link to a non reciprocal page than to a reciprocal page.

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Thanks for the nice comment.

Care to post a link or two so I can see what we're missing? Maybe it's "close enough"

:-)

marc

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Bill

But, I don't approve of his policy on "Click Here"

What "Click Here" policy? All I see is no "Enter Here" on the index page, which is typical of most link list rules.

[mb]

What's so strange about this? We don't want our surfers to follow your link assuming it's one thing and show them something else. So subcategory selection is very important to us. Obviously the recip needs to match the category. Let's keep things targetted. Some webmasters just don't want to take the extra few seconds to grab a different recip. Instead they use the same one over and over.

marc

[ladydesigner]

Originally Posted by mb

What's so strange about this? We don't want our surfers to follow your link assuming it's one thing and show them something else. So subcategory selection is very important to us. Obviously the recip needs to match the category. Let's keep things targetted. Some webmasters just don't want to take the extra few seconds to grab a different recip. Instead they use the same one over and over.

marc

I just declined two sites this morning for this. I guess I'm a "recip nazis".

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by mezzanine

...I reviewed a site today submitted to the gay/big dick category and the content was promoting the niche, but the webmaster chose to use the 'twink' recip...

Originally Posted by mb

What's so strange about this? We don't want our surfers to follow your link assuming it's one thing and show them something else....

It's your site & you make the rules, but that explanation falls flat when you throw in there that, based on the example above, the person was clicking on a link that said "twinks" which I assume went to the twinks page.

I can sorta see your point, but I don't think I'd decline a site because the recip they had up there was off by a sub-niche (meaning that a gay recip on a big tit site would catch my eye & probably be declined, but not a gay sub-niche on another gay sub-niche site)

[Bill]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

I just declined two sites this morning for this. I guess I'm a "recip nazis".

If the sites were otherwise okay, and you had no reason to suspect they were from risky webmasters, it's crazy for a little linklist owner like you to decline for that reason.

There could be other extenuating factors. You might have had good reason to reject those sites otherwise.

But recip links are weaker now.

Look at how greeny does his gay recip linking - he gets at least double the sales exposure from one link, and avoids the page to page recip weakness.

[ladydesigner]

While I don't claim to be a search engine expert, I do know that lazy webmasters make me scratch my head and go "huh?". For example (what I was talking about in my earlier post) was a toon site that a webmaster submitted to me but used the recip for the movie category.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

For example (what I was talking about in my earlier post) was a toon site that a webmaster submitted to me but used the recip for the movie category.

Was it a lousy site otherwise? Would you have been happy to have it, except for the recip? Werte you suspicious of the submitter, or was it a new submitter?

Do you figure there's no chance a toon surfer would be interested in movies?

The search engine effect of that link is VERY VERY weak.

Having a good submitter who trusts you and keeps sending you content and links is much more valuable to you than the effects of one or even 50 wrong links.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Bill

it's crazy for a little linklist owner like you to decline for that reason.

Little? Who you callin' little?

LOL

[mb]

Sorry that some of you think this policy is "tough". I'm very anal and like to keep my ducks in a row. Maintaining highly targetted inbound links is one of my goals for my reviewers. TRUST ME, it helps submitters in the long run. You WANT a surfer eventually clicking on your free site in my "twinks" category that has just clicked on a "twinks" link on a recip. It's good, clean target marketing.

I agree that some of the gay subcats are cross-overs meaning they appeal to the same people, but I prefer to maintain my rule.

marc

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by mezzanine

...I reviewed a site today submitted to the gay/big dick category and the content was promoting the niche, but the webmaster chose to use the 'twink' recip...

Originally Posted by mb

...You WANT a surfer eventually clicking on your free site in my "twinks" category that has just clicked on a "twinks" link on a recip. It's good, clean target marketing....

I'm not trying to be an ass, but I think your missing my point - your reasoning falls short because, based on the example posted, the surfer would have clicked on a link that said "twinks" that went to a page of twink sites.

It's your site & you can do what you want, I'm just trying to understand the thought process behind it.

[mb]

I didn't realize hoes.com had a reputation of being strict! I thought we were kinda loose actually. Other than the "click here" of course.

I don't have nearly the amount of rules as some of the other big link lists.

marc

[Bill]

Well, marc, I don't know if everyone would agree that hoes has that reputation, but it has come up in conversations I've had with people.

On the other hand, when you do list a site the listing is a good one, that lasts.

My own experience, before I stopped subbing after the 'click here' stuff, is probably pretty typical. Pretty much every linklist I submit to lists every one of my sites, all of the time. When they don't accept the site, it's for a good understandable reason.

But hoes reviewers were only accepting about 6 out of 10, on average. Why they accepted one and not another, I had no clue. I did various tests to try to figure out why the acceptance ratio at hoes was so bad - sometimes a site I thought was very agressive would be accepted, sometimes a really clean site would be rejected.

I've discussed with people, over the years, the various reasons why sites might not get accepted at hoes - Is the use of a hub or small linklist link as the 3rd link out the problem? Does hoes have a harder content policy? Is there some word or another that hoes reviewers don't like?

What can I say - same site, everyone else accepts it every single time, but hoes reviewers don't. That makes you more strict. ;-}

[plateman]

Originally Posted by Bill

What can I say - same site, everyone else accepts it every single time, but hoes reviewers don't. That makes you more strict. ;-}

Yup I quit submitting a long time ago to hoes, had problems getting sites listed and posted the last one submitted and mezzanine said there's no reason why it didnt get listed, and was told to resub it, and I did and it still didnt get listed - so I just quit

most reviewers know my sites and I put a lot of time in them and make things very clear to the surfer and almost always use the .com in my text and never try and trick surfers into thinking there getting something for free and the tour

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by plateman

Yup I quit submitting a long time ago to hoes, had problems getting sites listed...

Ditto, yet I have no problems getting listed elsewhere. |goodnight

[Licker4U]

Im not sure what's wrong with my sites at HOES. I have 20 sites listed out of 42 submitted. There are probably a few still in the queue yet to be reviewed. I have their recip with LOR, Adult List, Smut Gremlins, Rechard's Realm, Penis Bot, Wet Place and Mike's Free Porn. I consistently get listed at LOR, Adult List, Smut Gremlins, Richard's Realm and Mikes Free Porn. (Penis Bot and Wet Place were recently added so I'm sure most are in their respective queue's) So yeah, I would say HOES is strict.

[msanchez]

Yup I quit submitting a long time ago to hoes, had problems getting sites listed and posted the last one submitted and mezzanine said there's no reason why it didnt get listed, and was told to resub it, and I did and it still didnt get listed - so I just quit

Seems about the same as my experiences.

[mb]

I see a trend with the comments and I do have an answer for all of you. I haven't seen a comment like "I've never been listed on hoes.com"... all of the comments are "not ALL of my sites are listed with hoes.com". The reason is thus: Our queue of submissions is growing every month. Lots of webmasters are continually getting into the free site game making it competitive for webmasters. Because we can't accept 400 sites a day, we have to be very strict about what we let in for the day. Sometimes this involves deleting sites by good, established webmasters that look good, are built well, but possibly are using content that we've seen before or the reviewer just doesn't like the content for that day. It's hard to come up with a reason for a deletion sometimes. Another reason could be that we want to allow lesser-known webmasters the opportunity to have their site accepted that day and have to substitute their site for one of your sites.

I would say that if many or most of your sites are being accepted, that's a good thing. Hoes.com in not an open free-for-all. Maybe it's good that we have a bit of a reputation as being strict. It means that our quality control process is in full effect and is working.

I hope that helps. Keep us in your submission queue, the traffic is still the same quality as it's ever been and you'll get listed "most of the time"!

marc

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by mb

...It's hard to come up with a reason for a deletion sometimes...

Wow, that must be a problem.

You don't list all sites the submitted to you, even good ones, that's fine it's your site. But the fact that you have an "official thread" for denials and then you do not answer some webmasters as to why they are being denied bothers me.

But like I said before, it's your site...