Choosing the right link lists.

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Originally Posted by justbondage

I have decided to give this free site building a go, I have my template and content sorted for my first batch to submit to people, but basically I want to know how people go about choosing their link lists?

Do you go for the ones that you think are going to give you the best traffic period, or do you go for the ones that you think perform better for certain niches? (so your free sites would have different recip tables depending on the niche you were promoting)

Obviously I realise there is a learning curve involved in this, and my first free site isn't going to get listed by everyone, but is it OK to change recip tables once something has been listed?

For example if I get 15 LL recips, and submit, but only 7 take me, can I change the recip to have 7 fresh ones and resubmit (assuming the reason I wasn't accepted wasn't something I could easily change without annoying the other LL owners who have accepted me).

|viking|

I said this in a few other threads so if I sound like I'm repeating myself, sorry. But I always tried to adhere to Link-o-rama's submit rules first off. It seemed like most of the link lists I submitted to had very similar rules so there were less "fuck, I can't submit here because this link list has different rules!" -- moments.

If I ever removed/changed a recip I gave the list one -- two weeks to reject or accept the freesite before moving on (if the link list stated that there was a two week backlog, I waited two weeks or a little more.) I eventually stopped making multiple recip pages because I found that 90% of the link lists I submitted to sent very little traffic so I concentrated on making one free site with one recip page, and I submitted the free site to a handful of the tried and tested link lists I was comfortable with.

That last question is really one for the LL guys to answer. I don't want to say they wont mind if you go changing out recips for LL's that rejected/didn't list your free site. But if a LL didn't accept my freesite and it was on my page with the "Big LL's" I would swap it for the recip of another big LL and submit there.

For me it's more about the quality of traffic than the actual link back. Solid, well established LL's will have decent traffic. You have to take into consideration their reputation and where their traffic comes from (shitty link dump sites, circle jerk, search engines, paid adverts, etc.)

Also, it doesn't hurt to poke around and research a site before you submit to it. This is true of link trades too, especially.