A rant about "approved" recips

MeatPounder · 2009-01-25, 10:31 PM

Recips were always a sore spot with me.
For awhile there every list made their buttons gaudier and gaudier trying to become the focal point of every free site landing page.
Free sites started looking like carnival sites...and ugly as hell. Each button had to be bigger and more attention grabbing than the next, style went out the door.

Then the value of text links came into vogue, and many rushed to have paragraphs of text in their recips...bold marques blurting out LOOK AT ME!!!!

Then link lists started demanding WHO they were on the page with (not all but some even here from GG&J members) It became commonplace in the rules to see link lists demanding all their fellow recips on the free site had to be PR4 , or if they were on the page their other sites or partners sites had to be on the page too (hell several had 3-4 different linklists in their own recips!)

Then damn it all came the categories, every link list had several dozen (if not more) cats and they wanted the recips to point to the specific category...recip tables became a nightmare....if you submited to a dozen or more niches, you had to have 25-40 recip tables at the minimum...lol)
This is all not to mention specific fonts and table dimensions and text colors in the recips and trying to get that all to work with your design.

I finally got to the point of going all custom text recips...nice ones with keywords specific to the individual link lists.

If a link list accepted that, I submitted, if they didn't I crossed them off my submit list and moved on (no matter how good their traffic was)

After all, the freesite is my sales tool...and within reason I design them to make sales not to be listed. Being listed is not my primary purpose in creating a site, earning money is.
And I've found most link list owners will accept a well designed free site that follows reasonable rules

Maj. Stress · 2009-01-26, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by MeatPounder

I finally got to the point of going all custom text recips...nice ones with keywords specific to the individual link lists.

If a link list accepted that, I submitted, if they didn't I crossed them off my submit list and moved on (no matter how good their traffic was)

After all, the freesite is my sales tool...and within reason I design them to make sales not to be listed. Being listed is not my primary purpose in creating a site, earning money is.
And I've found most link list owners will accept a well designed free site that follows reasonable rules

Maya · 2009-01-26, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by MeatPounder

I finally got to the point of going all custom text recips...nice ones with keywords specific to the individual link lists.

If a link list accepted that, I submitted, if they didn't I crossed them off my submit list and moved on (no matter how good their traffic was)

Excactly the way I've been doing it the last 6 months or more, and actually only had to remove very few LL's because of that

Sven800 · 2009-01-26, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Maya

Excactly the way I've been doing it the last 6 months or more, and actually only had to remove very few LL's because of that

Care to send me a list?

stuveltje · 2009-01-26, 02:51 PM

you can nag what you want about those receips, but its still your choise if you wanna take the afford to make the receips like they want to submit to their page, its your choise, not theirs, dont wanna do it, then dont, nobody forche you....dont like the change , remove them from your submit list and move on....heheh and yes i can say that because i was a submitter ones too and i hated to change the receip also all the time, because this is not something which is invented the last months....but i choose to not submit and do the afford (of how the hell you say that), also there is nothing wrong with telling your pet peeve.....but what result do you expect from it?....just move one with your biss

Maya · 2009-01-26, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Sven800

Care to send me a list?

Re-reading MeatPounders post, I realize that he might mean using only one link per LL, and in that case, thats not the excact way I do it

I do make category specific recips for all lists except those who ask for a certain general recip. (Sample)
I sometimes simply take out half a day to go through my entire list of LL's and get the recips for new categorys I want to test, and sort them into tables.
It takes time, but it's worth it I think... I now have ready tables for 11 or 12 different categories for about 80 LLs - all custom made.
So more or less whatever I feel like making, I have recips for it

But I do only use these custom ones, and never with more than 2 links, and always only link to one domain within a recip. And this is what most LL's have accepted

Nymph · 2009-01-26, 04:27 PM

Coming into this with much caution since I do run different LinkLists.

On my main LL, I have 3 different ways to recip. Warning, main, or category. My other 2 are niche specific, and can be reciped to either warning, main, or main linklist. All are either a button, or simple text links. It's the submitters choice.

On my TGPs, I do use a small table with my colors, font, and text size.

Now, in defense of some of the other LL owners out there.....
Doing our recips in tables, using our specified colors makes sure our link can be seen. Too many times I have checked for a recip on a submitted site, and with the colors they use either for background, text, links, or visited links, you may, or may not be able to see the recip. I don't know if it's an accident, or possibly done on purpose, but at any rate, it's not right.

Just like you as a submitter get upset about all the different rules, we as LL owners get upset about the not so honest submitters that try to pull a fast one on us. If it wasn't for the dishonest submitters, and cheats, then we wouldn't have to have some of the rules, and ways of reciping that we do. It's a pain in the tush for all of us.

2009-01-26, 02:51 PM	#5
stuveltje Live and learn. And take very careful notes! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sunny Holland Posts: 6,157	you can nag what you want about those receips, but its still your choise if you wanna take the afford to make the receips like they want to submit to their page, its your choise, not theirs, dont wanna do it, then dont, nobody forche you....dont like the change , remove them from your submit list and move on....heheh and yes i can say that because i was a submitter ones too and i hated to change the receip also all the time, because this is not something which is invented the last months....but i choose to not submit and do the afford (of how the hell you say that), also there is nothing wrong with telling your pet peeve.....but what result do you expect from it?....just move one with your biss __________________ Canadian Sexlinks - submit Erotica search -submit

2009-01-25, 10:31 PM	#1
MeatPounder Women might be able to fake orgasms But men can fake whole relationships Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fl Posts: 2,408	Recips were always a sore spot with me. For awhile there every list made their buttons gaudier and gaudier trying to become the focal point of every free site landing page. Free sites started looking like carnival sites...and ugly as hell. Each button had to be bigger and more attention grabbing than the next, style went out the door. Then the value of text links came into vogue, and many rushed to have paragraphs of text in their recips...bold marques blurting out LOOK AT ME!!!! Then link lists started demanding WHO they were on the page with (not all but some even here from GG&J members) It became commonplace in the rules to see link lists demanding all their fellow recips on the free site had to be PR4 , or if they were on the page their other sites or partners sites had to be on the page too (hell several had 3-4 different linklists in their own recips!) Then damn it all came the categories, every link list had several dozen (if not more) cats and they wanted the recips to point to the specific category...recip tables became a nightmare....if you submited to a dozen or more niches, you had to have 25-40 recip tables at the minimum...lol) This is all not to mention specific fonts and table dimensions and text colors in the recips and trying to get that all to work with your design. I finally got to the point of going all custom text recips...nice ones with keywords specific to the individual link lists. If a link list accepted that, I submitted, if they didn't I crossed them off my submit list and moved on (no matter how good their traffic was) After all, the freesite is my sales tool...and within reason I design them to make sales not to be listed. Being listed is not my primary purpose in creating a site, earning money is. And I've found most link list owners will accept a well designed free site that follows reasonable rules

2009-01-26, 04:27 PM	#7
Nymph Get me! Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Lower Alabama-The Redneck Riviera Posts: 677	Coming into this with much caution since I do run different LinkLists. On my main LL, I have 3 different ways to recip. Warning, main, or category. My other 2 are niche specific, and can be reciped to either warning, main, or main linklist. All are either a button, or simple text links. It's the submitters choice. On my TGPs, I do use a small table with my colors, font, and text size. Now, in defense of some of the other LL owners out there..... Doing our recips in tables, using our specified colors makes sure our link can be seen. Too many times I have checked for a recip on a submitted site, and with the colors they use either for background, text, links, or visited links, you may, or may not be able to see the recip. I don't know if it's an accident, or possibly done on purpose, but at any rate, it's not right. Just like you as a submitter get upset about all the different rules, we as LL owners get upset about the not so honest submitters that try to pull a fast one on us. If it wasn't for the dishonest submitters, and cheats, then we wouldn't have to have some of the rules, and ways of reciping that we do. It's a pain in the tush for all of us.