Choosing the right link lists.

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Originally Posted by kelle

Is there anyone who has a list of the best link lists? I know it is very subjective, but still.
I have just started to submit to link lists and have been listed at sites like Green Guy and Penisbot. They have sent me a great amount of traffic, but I haven't been so successful getting in to other lists. It would be good to know if I just have submitted to poorly maintained lists that aren't worth dealing with, because I suspect they haven't even bothered to come look at my sites, at least according to my stats.

I haven't been keeping an updated list personally, but Greenguy's LoR would be on there (the first on my list, actually) and probably PenisBot as well. What I'd do is go through GG&Jim board threads and look at poster's sigs and start bookmarking their link lists. Then go through the link lists one by one and read their submit rules, check out their categories, etc. and whittle down your list until you've got enough good potential link lists to submit to.

Also, sometimes you'll submit to a link list that isn't updated anymore, without knowing it. This isn't a definite rule, but look over the link list for a timestamp like "Links last updated [whatever date]." If the timestamp/date hasn't changed in a long time you can assume it might be dead or the webmaster is on vacation. If the link list doesn't timestamp their updates just bookmark the page, make note of the last few free sites added to their lists, and then visit the link list every few days to see if any new links have been added. If they're not adding new links then it's possible that the link list isn't being updated anymore or updated regularly (hence the reason your free sites are not being accepted.) This rule isn't hard set, it's just one of the criteria I used when submitting a free site to a link list I wasn't familiar with.

Another thing, Greenguy started the new Trusted Submitter status and rules for Link-o-Rama. A lot of link lists are following suit and have implemented their own version of Trusted Submitter. You can probably safely assume for those link lists that are implementing the new rules, they're updating their lists regularly with new free sites (as the Trusted Submitter status/rules is a fairly new idea.) So it may be a good idea to start submitting to link lists that implement their own version of Trusted Submitter so that eventually when you are ready to apply for Trusted Submitter status at those link lists, the link list owners will already be familiar with your work.

There's more info about Trusted Submitter in this thread:

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=48260