How long does it take before you see money from freesites?
 

Im on my 5th day or so of making and submitting freesites and the traffic is just a trickle right now.
Does it take a really loong time before you start to see good traffic?

maybe it takes a while so they recognize me and know I'm not a cheater before they list me, or maybe I should buy top spots or something.

alot of link lists take time to review your submissions... be patient, it can take a couple weeks ;)

ok thanks. Its just a lot of tedious work to have to switch out recips with each site because the niche is different, and switching out banners too.
I dont want to be pumping a dry well to keep doing all this work everyday for months and months and not make good money from it.

Use dreamsubmitter :thumbsup

with tgps I can say to someone new that they should start to see some traffic within a few days and a sale or two within a month.
Is that pretty much the same for freesites or is it longer?

keep submitting... in 50 days, you will notice the traffic! Just make sure they get accepted!