I am sure most directory owners are like me and face this problem daily. To accept or reject MFA sites, spammy sites, etc. Myself, I am now just deleting sites like that without any remorse (used to think, poor person worked or got snookered into this dumb site). Then I had this idea...maybe you had the same idea. Build a directory just for MFA sites, spammy sites, etc! Any thoughts on such a directory? Only thought I had was to charge for a listing, no freebies.
Definately charge for it. Would you advertise it as taking all comers? Probably would scare off the hobbyist or fledgling webmasters and those worried about bad neigborhoods, but I suspect the traffic from viagra salesmen and poker hawkers would more than make up for it.
Like that site! Right to the point it is... Good luck with it. Ah, now I can move on to another idea for a directory.
lol. I have the same problem and I accept/reject them depending on my mood.. heheheh.. What I hate about them is they almost have the same description and it's annoying to read the same description again and again and again..
I think that idea's just pure evil. I mean, who would visit such a directory? Who would link to it? I guess if you make them pay, then robots.txt or nofollow all the links, then it's not so bad. I don't see you getting many takers, though.
LOL!!! Yeah.. I knew someone would think it a sin.. LOL!! I plan to use it as an outlet from my own PR6 directory to give these kinds of web sites a place of their own. I'm just tired of thinking about where I would list them if I were going to. This seemed like my best alternative. I get 30 to 50 MFA sites submitted everyday, this is my way of giving them an option VS. just rejecting them. If you can't control something, you might as well find a way to work it.
My directories are free and fall into 2 categories * forums * real estate in the real estate example I like to see evidence of real people doing business and therefore not spammy lead generators or MFA. I just rejected a site from Israel promoting commercial investments - ie millions of dollars - with no phone number, address: just an email. Uh, I don't think so. I emailed them and gave them the opportunity to add that to the site. They gave ME the info but that didn't really cut it. I also edit the anchor text and the description. I have title text and I let that be a bit more spammy.
I have the same rule for business sites, and I ask them to put something in the box explaining where a visitor can find that info on their site. This is my wording: I like to think that's pretty clear, but maybe not? I'm always getting people submit their actual address, but when I visit the site itself all they have is a contact form, and maybe an email. I mean, why do all that typing if you know the site won't get in?