In my experiance, I have done well with sending traffic to a landing page of sorts, ie: a portal. Which gives the surfs something to bookmark as well as feed a selection of toplists.
From a micro niche perspective (ie: not teens) toplists always seem to return highly targeted and non cj'd traffic. Which yeilds both high productivity & convets nicley.
I'm currently working on a massive portal project atm and plan to use trafficholder and a few of the others to feed it and I'll see how that goes.
-N