Good Free Link List Script?

[Cozy Monica]

Has anyone here used a link list script that they would recommend? A free one?

I hate trying out script after script after script to find one that actually works, so I was hoping someone knows of a good one.

[razor]

Check out http://www.tomsnewbiebooster.com/articles.html he has a free basic LL script.

[balls_deep]

I'm happy with LinkX, it's not free but the price is nominal.

[Cozy Monica]

razor, I'm not seeing the script anywhere. The only link script he mentions is Linkup Pro, and their site is gone.

Balls, is it easy to customize? That's my main concern.

[balls_deep]

Originally posted by Cozy Monica
Balls, is it easy to customize? That's my main concern.

It's template driven so as long as you can manipulate the elements you shouldnt have a problem.

My linklist (See Sig) is running linkx, you can see a list of sites running it to get an idea at http://www.jmbsoft.com/software/linkx/sites/

It took me a solid week of coding to modify the theme the way i wanted.

[razor]

Originally posted by Cozy Monica
razor, I'm not seeing the script anywhere. The only link script he mentions is Linkup Pro, and their site is gone.

Balls, is it easy to customize? That's my main concern.

Here's the link to their sitemap http://www.tomsnewbiebooster.com/site-map.html

Its called Easy Link List.

If you want to run a full LL accepting submission then it might be better to but a script.

[phuckbunny]

That looks like a nice script from jmbsoft.

Question: Will a link list make you $ or is this almost the equivalent of TGP traffic at this point in the game.

So many changes in technology and the net that it's hard to keep up.

[balls_deep]

Originally posted by phuckbunny
Question: Will a link list make you $ or is this almost the equivalent of TGP traffic at this point in the game.

So many changes in technology and the net that it's hard to keep up.

linklist traffic has always been more productive than tgp traffic. Plus a freesite gives you 2 pages worth of ads to get a surfer off your site before they even get to the content. I've been doing quite well with freesites lately.

i made the linklist instead of a hub, I can push my own freesites to the top and eventually i'll have some traffic to push around.

It's an old model but its still working

[phuckbunny]

Good points there, Ballsy. Time for me to expand to other types of sites methinks, but first a little kachunga (know that joke?)

A LL is kind of a hub though anyway isn't it? Here we go with semantics issues again.

I haven't done the freesite game yet, because when I first started everyone on this and other boards was basically telling me I'd be drawn and quartered according to 18.2257 which no one is following anyway, if I so much show anything more than a nipple, and god forbid that nipple was erect, too! So the 'solution' to this for building freesites was to buy your own content. Well, howdy hardy har hard, I came to the logical conclusion that a faxed copy of Olga Volga's Slovakian passport faxed to you from a custodian of records in Nicosia or Bucharest will indemnify/protect you as much as [fill in metaphor of choice], so while trying to be squeaky clean I've probably lost out on income. Crap! I've even asked about VINTAGE content, and was even given the disingenuous tips that I would have to provide photo IDs and model release for Linda Lovelace and Marylin Chambers. Umm.. OK.

Anyway, back to the subject, aren't you only supposed to send traffic to another LL which you own if you build a freesite? Therefore there's no real network of your own sites that are interlinked, no?

[balls_deep]

Originally posted by phuckbunny
A) A LL is kind of a hub though anyway isn't it? Here we go with semantics issues again.

B)I haven't done the freesite game yet, because when I first started everyone on this and other boards was basically telling me I'd be drawn and quartered according to 18.2257

C)Anyway, back to the subject, aren't you only supposed to send traffic to another LL which you own if you build a freesite? Therefore there's no real network of your own sites that are interlinked, no?

A) yep it is a hub of sorts. Only because I own it and submit my own sites to it.

B) Gave up on 2257, using good judgment. No affiliate has ever been prosecuted under 2257 for using sponsor content. Im taking my chances.

C)You are completely wrong.

I have only one link per freesite to my Linklist (I do duplicate the index page though )

You should go take a look at some linklist and see how they work if you really want to understand the system.

[phuckbunny]

Giving up on 2257, eh? Well I only read about this in LA City Beat today but apparently the Feds went after Buttman?! That guy' s not even close to all the crazy shit that comes out of the other blokes they went after like Max Hardcore not to mention Joe Francis' whole ordeal, but yes you are 100% right it seems that whatever the DOJ is going to try and pull next will be for content providers and producers not affiliates.... Oh, excuse me, as Anne Frank said, "there's someone at the door..."



As far as LL's and Free Sites go, The way I understand the mechanism behind it, it seems to converst better than TGP traffic b/c the LLs come up relatively high in SERPs thanks to the anchor text you give them when you link back, a not so different technique than a google bomb; so when you and 100000 other webmasters link to a LL with the anchor text saying let's say in your case goth porn or punk porn or whatever that LL will come up high in ranking and you win because your freesite will be there in that list.

Also, the freesite's design is by nature though designed to confuse the living shit out of the surfer because as far as I can tell the MO for a good freesite is to visually disguise the entrance to the the actual 'free gallery 1' and 'free gallery 2' as much as possible. Frankly, IMHO this is another way to piss off the surfer who will just as well go and find what he's looking for on rapidshare but that's not the point.

The point is that I don't see how freesites are actually building a network of your own sites, b/c from the rules I've read from many of the major LLs, you can only link to other LLs on that front page, not to your blog, not to your hub, not to your whatever. Which makes it seem like a kinder, gentler CJ in the long run.

Having said that, I can see how a freesite can have more productive traffic than a TGP since you will be getting those twice removed SE hits.
But I have to say, years back ago when I first considered trying my hand at this stuff I already had seen the Hun and al4a and what not, so when I first found green guy and penisbot and all those other sites, I thought this was old school hoodwinking, albeit without endless popups and redirects.

Now can someone please tell me how a faxed, xeroxed fuzzy photoshopped copy of Dirk Digglerov and Katerina Rollergirlova's Kazakhstanian driver's licence will protect me in a court of law.

And, what CAN you link to on that very deceiving front page of a freesite apart from other LLs and your own LL?

[balls_deep]

phuckbunny, your take on freesites and linklist is a bit obscured.

I build freesites for surfers. I don't hide gallery links or use blind links. I know that many people build freesites to confuse and use ridiculous text sizes and horrible contrasting colors to try and get a surfer off their site and onto the sponsors site. I don't follow that model.

My sites are built to have ease of navigation and aestheticly pleasing. Freesites convert better because you have 3x as many chances of getting a surfer to your paysite then a TGP gallery.

You can link to anything you want on a freesite (blog, hub, tgp, whatever) It's just gonna cost you an outgoing link. Linking to your hub is actually encouraged and doesn't count as an outbound link.

There is an art to designing freesites and poorly constructed sites made to confuse the surfer convert like shit.

[phuckbunny]

OK, I'm understanding it a bit better now. Most freesites I've seen are so loaded with ads and rubbish text and outbound links and other mumbo jumbo that you can't find the link to the so-called 'free gallery' without a an electron microscope. To me, this seems like sth that would piss off the surfer. But I tell you what, I need to try this out, so I'm going to drop down a small bit of change for licenced content that naturally comes with the scanned copy of the models's student ID from Kiev University and build one and I'll post it on the critics board. I'll try to do this next week. Still confused about this whole deal but maybe you can steer me in the right direction.

Thanks, BD

[balls_deep]

PB, I pm'd you a few examples of my freesites. As you can see they are surfer friendly and not confusing.

[balls_deep]

PB, your box is full

CLEAN YOUR BOX

[Cozy Monica]

Razor, that script looked awesome so I downloaded it, installed it, did a little customizing, and then began testing.

Unfortunately, I'm already encountering some bugs.

I've contacted Tom, so hopefully it's something that can be sorted out, because I like how simple the script is... super easy to customize.

[Cozy Monica]

Well poop... the email I sent to Tom just bounced.

[razor]

Try and get hold of him on his message board. What sort of bugs does it have?

[phuckbunny]

Originally posted by balls_deep
PB, your box is full

CLEAN YOUR BOX

Sorry, sorry; I cleaned my box.

[Cozy Monica]

I posted on his board and he is going to have a look at things for me... so hopefully I just installed something wrong or something similarly easy to fix.

What's going on is when I add a new link to a category that has links, it will just delete one of the older links, so I never seem to have more than two links in one category. It's weird.