Business/General Directory - Accepting Free Submissions for 30 Days

Discussion in 'Solicitations & Announcements' started by yfs1, Jun 13, 2006.

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  1. Lovely

    Lovely Well-Known Member

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  2. spyrit

    spyrit Well-Known Member

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    #62
    thx..submitted mine ;)
     
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  3. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    #63
    Just saw the directory..

    Submitted to Travel and Leisure. Thanks very much for the oppertunity. A great directory.
     
    maldives, Jun 28, 2006 IP
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    #64
    Submitted a few.... thanks for your directory.

    www.satxproperty.com
    www.satxweather.com/directory
    www.texas-red.com
    www.c2cdev.com
    www.trailsend-dev.com
     
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  5. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    Thanks very much for approving my site ;)
     
    maldives, Jun 30, 2006 IP
  6. yfs1

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    #66
    Due to the huge volume in the last week (All I can say is Wow :eek: ), Sponsor links are getting approved with 4 business hours but free listings can take up to 3-5 days.

    As always, you will get a mail once they are reviewed ;)
     
    yfs1, Jul 2, 2006 IP
  7. miko67

    miko67 Well-Known Member

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    #67
    Very good looking yfs1 - as always :D

    I do have a few questions though:

    1) Don't you get harassed by the bots submitting over and over?
    2) Did you obtain the categories somehow, or was it all just hard manual labor?
    3) What files do you change in order to get the urls so good looking?

    Btw. I submitted a bunch. :cool:
     
    miko67, Jul 2, 2006 IP
  8. yfs1

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    #68
    yes, which is why the window of review is slowly growing...I am writing a ban by ip and email feature for that script though which will cut the times back to normal
    Pretty much manual labour although I still have a lot of work cleaning them up further.
    Do you mean the mod rewrite? I think thats pretty much standard with the site-sift script although I modified it slightly in order to incorporate more words and fewer numbers.
     
    yfs1, Jul 3, 2006 IP
  9. miko67

    miko67 Well-Known Member

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    I ask because I had the best feeling of success this last weekend spending the wee hours between 0500 and 0800 when everybody else was sleeping, trying - and succeeding - in getting the bots to disappear from view in my Hot Gossip Directory (this is not a Side Sift script, sadly).

    What I did was basically change the page where the list of submitted titles are shown for approval so that I don't see bot-submissions any more. I still get the total number and as such I can still see the number of bot-submittals climbing steadily, but I don't get bothered the least anymore (feels good I tell ya), and when I have about a thousand or so I'll go in through phpMyAdmin and run a SQL query that I made to find them all in one go and just delete them.

    Btw. thx for the nice answers. I really like your business directory.
     
    miko67, Jul 3, 2006 IP
  10. red_devil52

    red_devil52 Guest

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    Submitted website in sig. Thanks :)
     
    red_devil52, Jul 3, 2006 IP
  11. muaythai

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    #71
    Submitted mine, thanks :)
     
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  12. yfs1

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    #72
    I know the feeling, I used to have a Biz Directory script which I thought was great at first but was a pain to customize (Plus its really feature poor) - I choose the Site-Sift script because its really easy to customize.

    Been there, done that with the previous script...lol

    PS. I am currently coding a feature where anyone can Sponsor any listing they choose with one click of the mouse. I'm pretty sure no one will be charitable and sponsor other peoples listings but what it does mean is you can Sponsor one of your previously submitted listing without going through all the hassle of setting up an account, etc. Should be done in the next day or two!

    Current Wait Times:
    Sponsored: 4 Business Hours
    Free: 3-4 days (Its going down...woohoo)
     
    yfs1, Jul 4, 2006 IP
  13. yfs1

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    #73
    Accepted

    We are now completely up to date (Something like 300 reviewed since Monday)

    If you didn't get a mail, let me know....Otherwise, keep submitting!
     
    yfs1, Jul 5, 2006 IP
  14. Blogmaster

    Blogmaster Blood Type Dating Affiliate Manager

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    #74
    Thanks for adding my site. Directory looks great :)
     
    Blogmaster, Jul 6, 2006 IP
  15. yfs1

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    #75
    Thanks Man...You can now Sponsor your listing even if its already been accepted....Of course free submissions are still welcome


     
    yfs1, Jul 6, 2006 IP
  16. mixke

    mixke Prominent Member

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    #76
    dunno if this is already answered..but is submiting deep links allowed and also for free;) ;)
     
    mixke, Jul 6, 2006 IP
  17. yfs1

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    #77
    Yes, providing two things:

    1.) Its a resource that offers something the main url doesn't, such as a forum or a blog

    2.) It's not abused, this isn't an oppurtinity to submit a site map. If I see multiple deep urls for no reason other then to submit all of your pages, all of your listings get deleted. I think most people know the conditions for entering a deep link.

    *** Only 2 hours left on the half price Sponsored Links ***

     
    yfs1, Jul 6, 2006 IP
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    Submitted at Business. Hope still on time. :)
     
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  19. yfs1

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    #79
    Yes, I will be keeping Free Submissions for a while now seeing as how the Sponsored Listings are doing so well

    Don't forget Sponsored Listing also come up first in Search. And with No Adsense that means you get top billing.

    Keep submitting!!
     
    yfs1, Jul 10, 2006 IP
  20. cormac

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    #80
    I never got your accepted/rejected email.....but I did get the one were you threatened to steal my milk :mad:
     
    cormac, Jul 10, 2006 IP
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