New Link Directory Taking Submissions

[RDude]

Hey all. I just put up a new link directory for those who are interested. One can never have enough traffic. Especially with the strange changes going on with Google.

Please read the rules before submitting. They're pretty easy going and self-explanatory. Screenshot thumbnails of your sites will be shown as well. A 100px x 100px for the front page, new links page, categories and search, with a 200px x 200px on your details page. I've included thumbnail url fields if you want to host the thumbs yourself, but these are optional and aren't required for submission. I will create the thumbs if you don't include urls.

Because the link list is new, reciprocals are not mandatory at this point. However, we all know that "the more, the merrier". ;) I've included the html code for a small button. Please hotlink it if you want to reciprocate.

There are currently 30 categories to choose from, so most types of porn should be covered. If not, PM me here and I can add whatever you need. I have to leave the current category field as a required one.

For those with gay social networks and non-adult resources, I will list you as well. Use the "NonAdult" category and choose what type of site you have.

I will be putting as much effort as I can into getting as much traffic as possible to the directory. I hope you'll hop on board for the ride.

Here's the submission page link - My Gay Link List Link Submissions (http://www.mygaylinklist.com/submit.php)

Thanks very much:cool:

[RDude]

Bump. Bring on those submissions folks! :cool:

[gaydemon_jr]

I'll start adding my sites at some point soon. I have been really busy in the run up to Christmas so haven't had chance yet, but will do.

[Bec]

I gotta get over there too. Which directory script did you end up using Jeff?

[RDude]

I'll start adding my sites at some point soon. I have been really busy in the run up to Christmas so haven't had chance yet, but will do.

Thanks very much my friend! I know it's a busy time of year.


I gotta get over there too. Which directory script did you end up using Jeff?

That would be great. Thanks Bec. I'm using LinkX. Between running a review site, as well as a link directory with it, I know it quite well at this point.

Be sure to follow the submission information folks. The script is sensitive otherwise. Submissions have been very successful with it though. Luke and PocoLoco have contributed a fair amount up to this point.

Thanks again!

[RDude]

I would just like to add that for those who do not plan on putting up reciprocal links back to My Gay Link List, there is a 3 site submission limit. Link lists rely on links back after all. It's how the process works. The list is new, so I can't demand reciprocals at this point in time. I can however put a stop to those looking to take advantage of free traffic from others who are willing to reciprocate. We all have to give a little in order to take a little.

Thanks for your understanding. Let's keep those submissions coming - http://www.mygaylinklist.com/submit.php

[tigermom]

Any categories you want to fill up? I can do a few submissions with recips, but probably won't have time to do too many. Let me know if you prefer them to be in specific categories.

[RDude]

Any categories you want to fill up? I can do a few submissions with recips, but probably won't have time to do too many. Let me know if you prefer them to be in specific categories.

Hi there. Thanks for stopping by. ;) Put them in the category you feel represents the sites' niches best. I think you'll find that most categories are available. If not, let me know here and I'll get on it.

Thanks for the submissions. I'll be sure to approve them quickly.:cool:

[tigermom]

Hi there. Thanks for stopping by. ;) Put them in the category you feel represents the sites' niches best. I think you'll find that most categories are available. If not, let me know here and I'll get on it.

Thanks for the submissions. I'll be sure to approve them quickly.:cool:

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I know how to submit sites and choose categories :D was just wondering if you as the directory owner are looking to fill up some categories more than others. For example, if you have tons of twink blogs/sites but none in mature you may prefer these. I have hundreds of sites so was looking to help out with niches you'd like to see submissions in. If you have no preference, I'll just pick 10 sites randomly.

[RDude]

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I know how to submit sites and choose categories :D was just wondering if you as the directory owner are looking to fill up some categories more than others. For example, if you have tons of twink blogs/sites but none in mature you may prefer these. I have hundreds of sites so was looking to help out with niches you'd like to see submissions in. If you have no preference, I'll just pick 10 sites randomly.

Oh I'm sorry. I didn't read your post properly. I know you know how to submit sites. I know you own many. Ummm....right now pretty well all categories need to be filled up more aside from "Variety". You've probably seen the full category list on the main page here - http://www.mygaylinklist.com/ So fill up whatever you have the most of for now I guess. I would really appreciate that.

FYI, I'll be putting a drop down menu for the categories on all other pages as well. Only having the categories on the first page isn't too visitor friendly. I just wanted to get some links up before I did that though. I think I'll get on that before I head off to bed.

Thanks and I hope I answered your question ok. lol

[tigermom]

Sorry! Should have had a look at the main page myself - would have saved me asking the question :)

Been trying to submit and I'm afraid your verification code is too hard for my old eyes... It's case sensitive too, with different sizes of letters, making it impossible for me to tell a C from a c... Is there any chance of you switching to a different system or maybe switching it off for a few weeks until the spammers find the submit page? It's just too time consuming the way it is (it takes the page a while to process the submission and let me know the code is wrong...).

Thanks!

[RDude]

Sorry! Should have had a look at the main page myself - would have saved me asking the question :)

Been trying to submit and I'm afraid your verification code is too hard for my old eyes... It's case sensitive too, with different sizes of letters, making it impossible for me to tell a C from a c... Is there any chance of you switching to a different system or maybe switching it off for a few weeks until the spammers find the submit page? It's just too time consuming the way it is (it takes the page a while to process the submission and let me know the code is wrong...).

Thanks!

That capcha thing has to go, I know. Some don't have a problem with it, some do. I plan on looking for another capcha system, or editing the ones that are there so they're more legible. The page takes a bit to submit yes. This is so I can get IP addresses etc. Security. I've already had some pretty shady submitters try to pull fast ones.

The script is LinkX. So while a good script, it has it's quarks. Still gets the job done though. I can't switch to a different system per say. I can turn off the capcha for a few days though. Would that help? Let me know asap and I'll do that.

Thanks

[HunkMoneyLuke]

Thanks for approving my submits :)

[RDude]

Thanks for approving my submits :)

Thanks for submitting. Come back any time :cool:

[RDude]

I had no choice but to make reciprocal links mandatory for submitting to My Gay Link List. I don't know why people seem to think traffic comes at no cost. I'm not going to have people who are willing to reciprocate lose traffic to someone who doesn't have the same courtesy.

Did you get my PM Tigermom? I just submitted a few links and they were pretty quick on my end.

[pocoloco]

Sorry! Should have had a look at the main page myself - would have saved me asking the question :)

Been trying to submit and I'm afraid your verification code is too hard for my old eyes... It's case sensitive too, with different sizes of letters, making it impossible for me to tell a C from a c... Is there any chance of you switching to a different system or maybe switching it off for a few weeks until the spammers find the submit page? It's just too time consuming the way it is (it takes the page a while to process the submission and let me know the code is wrong...).

Thanks!

Hey there ;) Your old eyes? lol

I believe the characters used within the code are all capitals. I've submitted some of my sites already and I typed all words in capitals and passed without any problems.

[gaydemon]

I have very good vision myself, but have great problems with capcha. The only ones I can do on first attempt are the ones using re-capcha. Would it not make much more sense to require submitters to login and then submit a site, rather than using open submissions with capcha? Or at least use re-capcha (http://recaptcha.net/) instead?

Also, if you make submitters login to your system you can then easily manage all their listings as well as enable them to modify their own at a later date.

[RDude]

I have very good vision myself, but have great problems with capcha. The only ones I can do on first attempt are the ones using re-capcha. Would it not make much more sense to require submitters to login and then submit a site, rather than using open submissions with capcha? Or at least use re-capcha (http://recaptcha.net/) instead?

Also, if you make submitters login to your system you can then easily manage all their listings as well as enable them to modify their own at a later date.

Thanks for the tips Bjorn. I've seen re-capcha before and I think it might be what I'm looking for. I've heard from a fair amount of people that having to register and login each time they submit is a pain in the butt. So I didn't bother including it. However, I might look into that as well. Just a few clicks and it's done.

How many would find that inconvenient here? Feedback? Thanks.

[gaydemon]

Thanks for the tips Bjorn. I've seen re-capcha before and I think it might be what I'm looking for. I've heard from a fair amount of people that having to register and login each time they submit is a pain in the butt. So I didn't bother including it. However, I might look into that as well. Just a few clicks and it's done.

How many would find that inconvenient here? Feedback? Thanks.

Well login isn't exactly that difficult if you saved your password in IE or Firefox. It kind of logs you in automatically. To see how re-capcha works you can try to signup on this forum, it's used on the signup form here.

[RDude]

Oh I certainly don't mind signing up in order to post on a link list, but not everyone thinks like me. LOL. I have to go with a majority vote on it. Re-capcha might be the way to go. I'll be looking into it later today.

[Daniel]

signup can be a problem, depends on the authority of the site. Sites like gaydemon that I may regularly submit to I find it very useful to use logins. Perhaps an option, whereby people can login and not have to use captcha every time or, not login, and use capchta each and every time - then everyone is happy.

Abandoning the no reciprocals is probably a good idea, but if you allowed it in the first place then I guess people are going to use it in some cases :P - when I am back I shall submit also.

[RDude]

signup can be a problem, depends on the authority of the site. Sites like gaydemon that I may regularly submit to I find it very useful to use logins. Perhaps an option, whereby people can login and not have to use captcha every time or, not login, and use capchta each and every time - then everyone is happy.

Abandoning the no reciprocals is probably a good idea, but if you allowed it in the first place then I guess people are going to use it in some cases :P - when I am back I shall submit also.

Yes, the authority of the site is a large part of it. I'm not going to make people signup when the site is just getting started. Most have other things to do. LOL.

As for offering both options, that can't be done with this script. Re-capcha is the way to go I think.

I allowed no-recips at first yes, but the amount of people taking advantage of it was unbeliebable. We're talking 30 sites and not one of them linking back. Ummm...kind of hard to build up some traffic that way. LOL.

Thanks Daniel for looking into submissions. Looking forward to it! :cool:

[gaydemon_jr]

Another advantage of having a login system is that you can automate a lot of the form for submitters... name and email etc.

I have recips up now on all my free sites, but your submission form says otherwise and wouldn't let me submit earlier today.

http://www.maleblue.com/galleries/huge_latino_uncut_cock/ (4th one down, 1st column)

Also, can I suggest making the description field accept slightly longer descriptions? Mine aren't very long but some are too large to submit. I keep them short and to the point.

[RDude]

Another advantage of having a login system is that you can automate a lot of the form for submitters... name and email etc.

I have recips up now on all my free sites, but your submission form says otherwise and wouldn't let me submit earlier today.

http://www.maleblue.com/galleries/huge_latino_uncut_cock/ (4th one down, 1st column)

Also, can I suggest making the description field accept slightly longer descriptions? Mine aren't very long but some are too large to submit. I keep them short and to the point.

Thanks for the feedback. I won't be using a login system at this point in time though. I've talked with many people about it and most wouldn't register just to submit links. This is mostly due to the fact that my link list doesn't have much authority at this point. A site like Gaydemon, yes. Mine, not yet. LOL.

As for why it didn't accept your submission is strange. Hmmm. Sorry about that. I can see that the reciprocal link is up. Can you PM me with all the information and I can add the site for you for now? Just until I beta test the reciprocal link checker and find out what the issue is. Damn, more headaches. LOL. My apologies. I don't mind submitting them for you though, so please PM me the info.

As for making the descriptions longer, right now it's at 500 characters maximum. Keep in mind that most search engines don't pick up more than 160 words in a description. So anything longer than that doesn't get seen I don't think. I might be wrong on that, but that's the rumor.

Send me the information and I'll change the description length accordingly. How many words is the description?

Thanks :cool:

[gaydemon_jr]

http://www.maleblue.com/galleries/

That's the page I use to submit my sites from. There's always 5 new ones at the top on each weekday. Please do feel free to submit them yourself and give me a shout when I can do it myself. Has anyone else reported the problem with recips?

[RDude]

http://www.maleblue.com/galleries/

That's the page I use to submit my sites from. There's always 5 new ones at the top on each weekday. Please do feel free to submit them yourself and give me a shout when I can do it myself. Has anyone else reported the problem with recips?

Ok cool. I'll certainly submit them for you until the issue is resolved. So far, no one has reported the reciprocal problem before you did here, no. I will be checking it myself very shortly here with a submission. I'll post here when it's resolved.

Again, my apologies and thanks for hanging in there and keeping the faith. :cool:

[tombarr]

http://www.maleblue.com/galleries/





LOVE your logo! Mind if I ask who did it for you? (apologies, RDude, for inserting this into your thread!)

[Bec]

ok, I'm trying to submit this site: www.bearvidtube.com, where I have a recip link in the left column and it keeps saying no recip link found and won't finish the submission. Got a glitch going on??

[RDude]

ok, I'm trying to submit this site: www.bearvidtube.com, where I have a recip link in the left column and it keeps saying no recip link found and won't finish the submission. Got a glitch going on??

Hi Bec. Yeah, looks like it. I'll turn the reciprocal link requirement off for now. Give it another try in about 5 minutes from now ok? That should help. Sorry about that. Man, technical issues all over the place these last few days. :bang: Browsers crashing and the whole nine yards.

Anyway...please try again in about 5 minutes ok? Thanks!

[RDude]

I think I'm going to have to allow for account creations after all. With all these problems going on: people not being able to read the capcha, the reciprocal link verification not working etc, it seems inevitable. Link submissions should be ok right now though folks. There's no capcha and it won't check for reciprocal links. I will be though. LOL.

[Bec]

I think I'm going to have to allow for account creations after all. With all these problems going on: people not being able to read the capcha, the reciprocal link verification not working etc, it seems inevitable. Link submissions should be ok right now though folks. There's no capcha and it won't check for reciprocal links. I will be though. LOL.

Ok, it went thru finally. You said you turned off reciprocal link checking ... and in the very first post of this thread you said "Because the link list is new, reciprocals are not mandatory at this point." Was that only for a few days then?

Oh, and congrats on being #6 in the Search Engines for gay link lists search term -- out of about 44 million ;)

[RDude]

Ok, it went thru finally. You said you turned off reciprocal link checking ... and in the very first post of this thread you said "Because the link list is new, reciprocals are not mandatory at this point." Was that only for a few days then?

Oh, and congrats on being #6 in the Search Engines for gay link lists search term -- out of about 44 million ;)

Glad to hear it went through for you. Sorry about the inconvenience. We'll leave things the way they are for now. When account creations are available I'll announce it here. For now though, submissions should be pretty straight forward.

I originally did not require reciprocals when I first put up the list, due to it being brand new. However, after receiving literally about 100 submissions with no links back, I was forced to change it. This kind of thing relies on links back after all. There's actually a post in this thread somewhere about me changing to requiring reciprocals. Somewhere. LOL.

My firmness with reciprocals must be paying off too. Wow, 6th already for that search term. Pretty darn cool. ;) I just did a search myself. Google sitemaps are GOOD things. I'll be submitting a new one each week too to keep up to date. Thanks for the congrats.

I'll have your link approved in the next few hours. Just working on the UKSL update. Thanks Bec and please submit as many as you like! :cool: Thanks for being patient too. I know we all have many things to do before the holidays.

[UglyO'Bear]

Looks good Jeff! I'll be adding mine probably X-Mas day. :cool:

[RDude]

Looks good Jeff! I'll be adding mine probably X-Mas day. :cool:

Thanks! Looking forward to your submissions. I'll probably get to them on Christmas evening. The day is pretty much a write-off for me.

I'll email you in a bit here too. Thanks for the note.

[Bec]

Once you submit the sitemap, don't they automatically re-spider every day or so?

[RDude]

Once you submit the sitemap, don't they automatically re-spider every day or so?

Good question. I never take anything to chance, so I just upload an updated sitemap to my server each week. Just to ensure they get crawled. This is for websites of course. For my blogs I use the Google XML sitemap plugin.

[UglyO'Bear]

Hey Jeff, just a quick question. Why use space separated keywords instead of comas?

[RDude]

Hey Jeff, just a quick question. Why use space separated keywords instead of comas?

That's due to the script itself. I put the commas in myself inside the control panel. Common separation between keywords is usually done with a comma and a space - i.e. - cum, cock, etc. I tried making it so that people can put them in with a comma and tried to get the script to keep it that way, but it wasn't happening. LOL. Oh well, it only takes a second. I have to make the thumbnails anyway too.

Thanks for submitting my friend. Merry Christmas to you!! :cool:

[UglyO'Bear]

That's due to the script itself. I put the commas in myself inside the control panel. Common separation between keywords is usually done with a comma and a space - i.e. - cum, cock, etc. I tried making it so that people can put them in with a comma and tried to get the script to keep it that way, but it wasn't happening. LOL. Oh well, it only takes a second. I have to make the thumbnails anyway too.

Thanks for submitting my friend. Merry Christmas to you!! :cool:

Ok, just wondering. Though I think I may have submitted one with comas (force of habit). Hope it didn’t mess you up! Merry Christmas guy! Hope you have a great day or at least a really productive one. ;)

[dirkpeddler]

Well today both myself and my partner got an email suggesting we are one and the same person and that there now is a limit for new site submissions for us because of that. If you ask me that is pretty pathetic, taking in consideration that your rules state unlimited number of sites, so why would I/we try to get around, what exactly? For a directory that has so little sites listed besides ours and the amount of clicks it seems to generate (about 100 a day total to all listed sites?) you sure have some nerve. Ever heard that when multiple people at one location, using the same T1, also send out the same IP address, even if there are 100 computers connected through that same connection? Really should work on your communication skills if you want to try and built your list and traffic. When you ask for submissions and state no limits, you shouldn't call webmasters who add reciprocal links to you and submit many sites as flooding your list. Maybe others knew how you treat fellow webmasters and didn't bother submitting to your directory for that reason. Good luck.

[RDude]

You really had to bring a private matter onto a public message board, didn't you? Talk about how I treat other webmasters?

ALL T1 connections are the same IP address? Where did you learn that? If that was the case, pretty well everyone who submitted would have the same IP. I assure you, that is not the case.

Anyway...go ahead and start your little pissing match. However, I'm ignoring this thread and not going to play your childish game. I have MUCH better things to do with my time. This is none of anyone else's business except ours. You damn well know that.

As for the traffic, the link list just started. Do you think the big lists were sending 1k a day in hits in their first month? I highly doubt it.

Much later.....

[dirkpeddler]

You really had to bring a private matter onto a public message board, didn't you? Talk about how I treat other webmasters?

ALL T1 connections are the same IP address? Where did you learn that? If that was the case, pretty well everyone who submitted would have the same IP. I assure you, that is not the case.

Anyway...go ahead and start your little pissing match. However, I'm ignoring this thread and not going to play your childish game. I have MUCH better things to do with my time. This is none of anyone else's business except ours. You damn well know that.

As for the traffic, the link list just started. Do you think the big lists were sending 1k a day in hits in their first month? I highly doubt it.

Much later.....

I never said ALL T1 connections, I said T1 connections on 1 account. But like you said, MUCH later and please don't forget to remove our links as requested. This has nothing to do with taking a private matter public. This was a public request from you and I am just adding my experience with the list to it. You set your submission rules, stick to it, do not change rules on the fly simply because no one else is submitting to you and you do not want to just list our sites. It's simple, setup a daily limit, don't turn around and pick on the few that do submit to help you out by submitting our sites AS PER YOUR RULES, even put up reciprocal links and then make up individual rules, that's not cool and other should know about that before they waste their time like we did. You have how many links? 211, and how many our from me and my partner? Exactly, should tell you how many others have submitted to you over the last 6 weeks, but we are flooding the list, right? The amount of traffic from your list was never the issue, or we would not have submitted to you, we know traffic doesn't built up in 6 weeks, no matter what Alexa says, the number of clicks on your listed sites says enough. But webmasters are willing to help other webmasters out by taking the time(and believe me, your script is not the fasted working one out there)to submit to your list, add reciprocals, etc. only for you to trun around and make up rules as you see fit. That's just not cool. If you had maybe 30,000 sites listed with thousands of daily visitors(not page views) you could be a bit more demanding, but come on now, get real. And no this is not a pissing match.

[RDude]

This is the last time I'm going to respond to you. Out of the 211 links that are up, you and your partner make up 65. So get it out of your head that other webmasters haven't submitted to the list. Where you got that idea is beyond me.

I am going to delete your links. I was going to do it last night, but after seeing that you hadn't taken down the links back to my gay link list, I didn't want to do it yet. Now that you say you have taken them down, I will do the same.

As for making up the rules as I see fit, it's my link directory. You and your partner pulled some pretty shady moves and that's why I limited your submissions. Those limits weren't for everyone. There's another submitter who has submitted almost as much as you and your partner, but he's followed the rules and doesn't expect 1000's of hits from a brand new directory. Nor does he get on boards here every time we have a slight disagreement in private.

If you have complaints about the script, go take it up with the people over at JMB. If the site is slow loading for you, get a faster internet connection. It loads in milliseconds at my end.

Leave this alone on the public boards please. There's no need to get on here and try to ruin my reputation. If my link list is so irrelevant to you, why do you waste your time blabbering on and on here?

Now leave it alone or I'll have the thread shut down. It's no skin off my butt to have to do that.

[gaydemon]

It would be better for both of you to resolve this issue in private rather than on a public forum. It only makes both of you look back and you're not going to get anything out of arguing. Maybe best you just remove each other's links and move on.