What Pisses You Off With Link Lists & Free Sites?

[johnnybg]

Originally Posted by Simon

I don't have the solution to this (or maybe I just don't want to talk about it yet), but I think we have to come up with some ways to keep the surfer interested in all the clicks required if we want more of them to come back and play our game again day after day. Almost anyone can make money off the AOL-newbie traffic, but selling porn to the growing audience of surfers who've been on the Net awhile is another story.

As usual, Simon has several great points in his post.

I believe that this thread might be about "rules that piss us off" or "recips gathering nightmare". But, it also might be about realization that LL/TGP model is somewhat outdated.

Before I go hide behind the couch, let me give you some of my points:
1. LL/TGP model is what? 10-15 years old?
2. Advertising on LLs/TGPs/FSs/Galleries is of the same age. (banners, text links)

I believe that LLs have to "speed up" selling porn. Surfers are used to quick navigation (social bookmarks, rss feeds, tags, personalization)

I tried to experiment a bit with my hub, added voting, commenting and tagging. What I saw from my (still young) experiment, people use tags a lot more than categories links. They also love to click on tag cloud thing. That might be an idea for link lists. Maybe Useless Warrior has some more valid input on this.

Other idea is to, instead of recips, we use Digg-style buttons for voting on free sites. For example, surfer might want to bookmark my free site on Link-o-Rama and clicks on [Add to Linkorama] button. Then he/she gets back to LOR, looks at bookmarked sites, etc.

Also, a RSS feed with newest free sites listed at LLs, with LLs own advertising might be good for bottom lines.