New free site format (version 1.5)

[KG Gary]

From a design point of view, I'd love to see some change allowed in the way I build freesites. After a few hundred, even the most original designs look like overused templates.
Change is welcome as long as we make sure the changes benefit everyone involved as much as possible. I'm not convinced that this new idea does that.

A few questions:

1. What happens to all of those smaller/newer link lists out there that don't make the 40-50 limit? Do we just drop them and the good relationships we've built up?
I'm not happy to do that, sorry.

2. How would a link list owner know if mirrors are created?

3. Can anyone coax Greenguy into sharing his new ideas so we can bounce them around a bit?


I was considering the referring page - sales thing a few days ago when comparing the use of sponsor content to bought content.
From what I could see, using sponsor content on a freesite gets me more sales, although the index page does show as the referring url. That leads me to think that the surfer takes a look at the sponsor straight away, from the first page of my freesite, then returns to my freesite to check out my free samples, and then heads back to the sponsor from a gallery to join if he likes what he sees.
That's what it looks like, but I could be wrong.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by KG Gary

From a design point of view, I'd love to see some change allowed in the way I build freesites. After a few hundred, even the most original designs look like overused templates.
Change is welcome as long as we make sure the changes benefit everyone involved as much as possible. I'm not convinced that this new idea does that.

A few questions:

1. What happens to all of those smaller/newer link lists out there that don't make the 40-50 limit? Do we just drop them and the good relationships we've built up?
I'm not happy to do that, sorry.

2. How would a link list owner know if mirrors are created?

I'm sorry I missed this earlier. (I've appointed myself the official spokesman for the campaign of modifying kit's modifications.)

1. I assume that those of you who submit to more than whatever the mysterious cut-off limit will be, will need to continue mirroring their sites. Fortunately, you'll have to create fewer mirrors.
2. Link list owners won't know who is mirroring anymore than they do now. But there is the presumption that many submitters would no longer need to mirror simply because they don't submit to that many lists.

I also realize that there are many, many submitters who have spent an enormous amount of time gathering and building recip tables and they aren't going to be very happy about tossing away all of that hard work. Therefore, any transition to a changed format should happen slowly, like evolution, rather than an overnight swap out.

LATE EDIT: Here's a basic mock-up of an index page. http://www.theactusreus.com/schlampe/test.html Assume that the rest of the free site would be business as usual. Who is harmed or hindered by that?

[CrazySy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

LATE EDIT: Here's a basic mock-up of an index page. http://www.theactusreus.com/schlampe/test.html Assume that the rest of the free site would be business as usual. Who is harmed or hindered by that?

Are you a freaking mind reader?

I am just finishing a site with similar layout index page (but with only 18 recips )

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

LATE EDIT: Here's a basic mock-up of an index page. http://www.theactusreus.com/schlampe/test.html Assume that the rest of the free site would be business as usual. Who is harmed or hindered by that?

I made up a similiar example last night from a recent site I built that had links down the right side to 12 LL's. The single recip would have allowed me to put 40 in the same area. I like the idea. Only negative is that there may be less recip hits coming across which may be a problem for some.

Originally Posted by amadman

As for recips, why limit people to just one way to put recips when the current model allows that way and many others?

I agree and did a test with what most do with their recips, including myself, which is a 4x4 table. If you do 1x4 with 10 down each it can be the same is size.

Originally Posted by amadman

If the recips were LL titles and not a bunch of blind links.

This one I really like. No spammy blind link stuff, which I have been guilty of myself. Just a link to your actual domain name with or without the .com at the end for those that want it. All their spammy stuff can be placed in a title tag. This I think would make it even across the board and stop the problems that MML has discussed with recips getting way out of hand with blind links and third party links snuck in.

The rest of the freesite as UW stated can be business as usual. Or it can even be changed to a 2, 3, 4 or however many pages Greenie and the rest of the top dogs want just as long as the warning page stays.

[Tekster]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

...LATE EDIT: Here's a basic mock-up of an index page. http://www.theactusreus.com/schlampe/test.html Assume that the rest of the free site would be business as usual. Who is harmed or hindered by that?

UW, so what is the difference between that and what we are doing now, besides the number of recips?
So, instead of having 20 recips on a warning page we are going to allow up to 40? Well if we do that why not up to 80 and have two columns?

Is this what it comes down to now? Just the number of recips on the warning page?