ATTN: Webmasters submitting to the hoes.com gay category

[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.

[DangerDave]

Originally Posted by Bill

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

Some would say its so weak as to be not worth the typing of the HTML!

Some would say that it does so much damage to the index page of the free site that is far more a negative than any sort of positive!

DD

[ladydesigner]

Some would say a lot of things where search engines are concerned. I'm going to gracefully bow out of this discussion now and leave it to those with the "big link list's".

[Linkster]

Originally Posted by DangerDave

Some would say its so weak as to be not worth the typing of the HTML!

Some would say that it does so much damage to the index page of the free site that is far more a negative than any sort of positive!

DD

I would have to agree totally with this - and after running tests for a year I would say that having category recips actually hurts in the long run - Ive tried both and Ive made up my mind
Thats why I am reverting to regular recips again - and forever this time!!

[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