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Originally Posted by AcidMaX
So sitting down this evening and realizing that I have been away from link lists since 2005 when I sold smutlinks.net to Xporn, i realized I am out of touch with the latest technologies of today.
I have been thinking about creating another linklist site, but is it worth it? Is there traffic still to be had? Are blogs killing the link lists? What are your thoughts on Web 2.0 and the future of the free porn market?
On that same token, being that I am the CTO for Blue Loot, what would you guys like to see from programs? Rss feeds (latest content updates?), xml updates, or more hosted galleries sites?
This thread goes both ways, hope this is not stepping over posting boundries, if so just let me know.
- Andy
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I think there is room in Linkslists if you can innovate and give the surfers what they want. One complaint some people have now about linkslists is that it can be difficult to find exactly what you want. Especially if it is text based. Surfers want previews now. They want something like tagging.
If I were to ever go back into it I would not even dream of it unless I had some sort of script which provided these features and was well implemented. If this is done, I think linkslist can be far more useful (and bookmarked) than the surfer than most blogs or perhaps even the youtube type sites. Linkslist have the advantage of having far more content. The only disadvantage right now in the way they are implemented is that stuff is difficult to find and tedious for the surfer.
What I want from sponsors?
You asked so I will provide.
Convert. No bullshit (this one is really big. So many shady programs out there and we see you. We really do!). I don't care about your contests, I care about the bottom line. Supply a reasonable amount of free content as well as hosted galleries and make the interface easy to use as well.
-Provide both a revshare program and a PPS program. For your PPS if you are not giving me credit for console sales, don't penalize me for going console free. That just pisses me off. I'm not stupid, I know you then have more of an interest in sending the surfer to the console than the site where I get credit. To me that just says "I think you are stupid and I want to screw you!" If doing revshare and trials, make it optional. I hate $1 trials with revshare these days. Options, options, options.
-Here is another idea to help people who blog. Allow a preview image from each hosted gallery to be hotlinked. This makes it a little bit easier and less time consuming, especially for people using freehosts. There MAY also be a 2257 advantage as well in keeping it on your server possibly. Same with banners if you are willing to eat the small bandwidth costs. It would be nice.
-When you name your pictures and videos make each name unique. None of this 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc stuff. It makes it a pain to combine content from two sets when they are named the same. Save me some time so I can promote more and we both win.
-When you name your banners use reasonable descriptive names. banner1.jog sucks because we have 100 other sponsors who name it the same thing. Better is <sitenameorabbreviation><dimensions><sequencenumber>.jpg. This saves me from having to rename them.
-2257 worries. If you can follow Naughty America's lead. A lot of people are a worried about this. Help us out a bit and we'll help you. I have seen guys out there saying they have stopped promoting certain sponsors and they are moving over to the ones where they can be 2257 compliant due to the worries.
-Respond to our support requests within at least three business days or less. Especially if we aren't the type to continually annoy you over petty stuff.
Here is something that annoyed me recently with a sponsor. I opened up a new blog and did some marketing in the goth niche. I saw they had a site so I started promoting. Looked for hosted halleries for that site. Not a one. Looked for free content. Not a single picture. Ooookay.....well it looks like I am going to have to link to someone elses free hosted galleries since they do not want any sales apparently.
Would it have really been that hard to provide a few hosted galleries? Especially considering most of their 100 other sites have them?