We are restrictive in our membership, however, we are selectively accepting new members. The criteria for acceptance is simple:
While you don't have any control over the last criteria, you do over the first two. If you think you satisfy the first two, then send us an email to info@link-co-op.com and let us know the url of your website and what city/state/country you are located. If you meet our new member criteria, we will send you an invitation code.
We were an open site at one point. But we have been dominated by photographers and as such our linking pages make sites appear to be photography related even though they may not have been. So we have closed new memberships to only photographers so our linking pages are congruent with the content of your site so it is a much more powerful linking page. We are only accepting new members from areas where we are not currently saturated with photographers. Everyone wants to be on page 1 google searches for their keywords and if we have too many sites from a particular area, then everyone can't fit on the page and our value proposition to our membership tends to lessen. So we are limiting our membership for each area.