Here's a tip for how to organize your recips:
The larger linklists will actually scan over the recips that are listed with their recip when deciding whether to accept a free site. It's best to group the large linklists together on the same page and then add a few others to complete your recip table.
I get over 200 submissions a day and many of them are deleted because my recip may be listed with 4-5 linklists that I've never heard of. The chances of receiving any traffic back from a submission of this sort is very limited. It's just another strategy that we use to help weed out the huge submission bank.
Another tip I can offer is related to the structure of your URL. As I said, the large linklists get an enormous amount of submissions daily. One way that I can quickly delete sites that are probably not going to fit within my rules is to delete those that look like they will be TGP galleries or those that are obviously from some mass creation tool.
So, if I see a url that looks like this, I delete it without even checking it out:
http://www.yoursite.com/sites/123/ffelk/234.html
That looks like either a TGP gallery or a mass created page.
Another I would be suspect of, but possibly have a look at would be this:
http://www.yoursite.com/sites/ebony/index35.html
The reason being is that it's an obvious mirror. If you are going to mirror your free sites, make it a bit cleaner like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/sites/ebony/warning.html
http://www.yoursite.com/sites/ebony/index.htm
http://www.yoursite.com/sites/ebony/enter.html
Use a unique index page name for each mirrored version for best results.
Free sites are an incredible way to generate long term cash flow and I hope more and more of you will consider migrating from TGP over to this world. There is a bit more work involved, but a hell of a lot more gain to be had.
marc
hoes.com