11 Reasons why thunder-ball.net rules.
 

1. Trying to find link trades is a lot of work but with thunder-ball you can browse through tons of sites ready to trade with you right now. There's no reason to go out hunting for link trades anymore.

2. There's a ton of people out there that will remove your link after doing link trades. Yes you could setup scripts to track all this which is more work for you. Why bother when you can have thunder-ball check the links for you? Of course this is a paid feature now but it's cheap and any serious webmaster won't have a problem paying for it.

3. Not only is there a ton of websites to do trades with in thunder-ball but it's all sorted in niches. If you have a amateur site then just browse the amateur directory for link trades. If you go out hunting for sites to trade with you'll probably find a lot that don't fit your niche and do you no real good in the end.

4. People can and will send request to make trades with you. Now how often you get link trade request now? My guess is probably none or a few every now and then.

5. Block List, thunder-ball has a block list to stop people from sending you trade request. If they don't know what they are doing just block them and you don't have to hear from them again.

6. Privacy! Don't want google to know you're doing link trades? Well you can add privacy to your thunder-ball account so anyone that's not logged in won't be able to view your sites/profile. Google has been known to remove sites from their SE that do link trades. Having a script that anyone can see and sign up to do link trades with you isn't exactly the smartest idea.

7. Autocode, don't worry about adding links manually anymore. Even if you use a script you're going to have to type in all the info for the link trade you did. But with thunder-ball all you have to do is enter in a simple line of code that will add all link trades to your site.

8. Nothing to install, with thunderball you won't have to install anything on your server. You won't have to worry if that script you just downloaded is secure or will work on your server.

9. Easily view all the trades you've done, it's all there in thunder-ball. You can see what links you sent out and what links you got back, all easily viewable and see the total link trades done.

10. Send other users messages. You won't have to write down every ones detail so you can contact them later. Simply press a button to contact other members.

11. Tools in thunder-ball, you can find a lot of helpful info about other users sites. Such as you can easily find out who has all their sites on the same server/IP in a nice big list.

Thunder-Ball.net

Is this a paid advert???

Nah I did one for natnet not long ago. I'm pretty sure no one paid me but both are welcome to do so if they want. :thumbsup

When I looked at the hundreds of requests I'd received through Thunder Ball, very very very very very few of the sites were possible linking partners. There's just no way I can link to some of that crap.

Haha! I am in the middle of the first thousand link trade via TB. However it makes it harder to sync it with my Links Organizer script [-->tips are very welcome!]

Yes a lot of shitty request come in, but it takes me less than a minute or two to go through them every few days to see if the trades are worth a damn. If I get one out of five or even one out of ten that are worth it then that's way better than getting none at all. :2 cents:

Thunderball has been a solid learning experience for me. Glad I was introduced to it.:thumbsup

I looked around for a bit, saw a lot of crap sites listed. There were quality sites but obviously their owners never came back.

I'll stick to the good old fashioned way :)

I am having a serious problem there.

When I click on a users login name it takes me to his/her profile page. Here I have the option to email them, block them, etc... But it always logs me out on this page.

So it tells me I need to be a member... I am a fucking member and have been for years!

Anyone else having this problem?

good luck weeding through 10,000 shit links and finding 1 half-decent one

crappy service :thumbsup

Yeah there's a lot of crap sites listed. But it's easy to go through the list every now and then and look for good ones. I can send out at least 50 trades to good sites in one hour. I usually get at least 10 accepted out of that. Trying to do it the old fashioned way takes me a lot longer. Unless you work with sites that have link trade signup pages but I wouldn't get near those sites. Even done that way I bet I could get more trades in thunder-ball quicker. But whatever works for you. :thumbsup

I have 60k unique visitors a day without skim to my blog. I hand feed my blog an organic diet of content that Google loves daily up to 10 updates.

I only trade with people who update their blog daily.

why would I or anyone wanna trade with blogs that are useless?

Im sure TheSenator can agree with me, that I only trade with people I actually know and deal with, not strangers that will add 100 popups to their blog without warning.

You dont want to have to keep checking link trades to see if they are doing anything fishy.

Plus your blog roll shouldnt look like a linkdump.

Most of the blogs have the same content, the same design, nothing unique.

Hey cess, thanks for the postive post.

When the system gives you that type of msg, its refering to paid members, not free account users,.

To the system free account usrs are not official members, (as the system relates to them)...

Therefore free accounts are not allowed to trade with, or, associate with paid accounts in anyway.

:1orglaugh

I looked at the sites for link swap, like 0.0000001% of them are actually decent.

Same experience. I can't link to that garbage!

Wanna trade links Fris? ;)

We can talk about it over hot chocolate at a Tim Horton's near you? ;)

I know 2 very serious bugs on thunder-ball.

One is: PR -1
Second is secret.

that's your opinion so far

he deletes all your friends so you can pay for it

fuck you very much . have a nice day

That would make sense except that we are talking about Emailing or blocking both free and paid members... Every single profile page I am not logged in to.

I'll have the system checked out.

#12 Right Now you can only add Domains. The Individual URL Scan will be working again in a few days


that was weeks ago :(

YES! I had to drop 2 trades, with intent to contact the 2 site owners to rework them to be more beneficial for each of us (since they were just recip trades). After I had dropped the trades, I went to their profiles on TB to email them about this and I could not send a message.

Does Thunder-ball track A > B > C trade links?

It does.

Right Now you can only add Domains. The Individual URL Scan will be working again in a few days

now free accounts cant email anybody. shame on you thunderbutt

Witness, the decline of TB.

To all the haters... got any alternative ???

I just bought links organizer too, are you happy with it?

i was just thinking about trying it. I always have done things the old fasion way as many other have but i had this account with them and thought about using it for once. well now i am not that sure, but we will see.

How many times

thunder-ball

SUCKS!!!!

there are no trade worthy sites on tbn right now... sorry, tbn used to be a great place, but not anymore... :(

and only one why it sucks (I already wrote about it)
php remote include is SHIT!