I don't care about directory's design or even hits. The only hit important for me is crawlers. As long as search engines can find the link it is enough. By the way, I use Alfredo's directory submission.
I always thought those were bot submssions that come in 60 entries at a time. I had captcha turned off for several months now, and surprisingly almost no spam submissions. I think spam is more rampant in blog comments and contact forms than directory submissions. Also if it is very painless for the submitter, they will comeback and submit again. I hope.
I use the simplest image verification I could find, I just hate when I have to resubmit 5-10 times because I don’t manage to get the letters right.
Even the simplest image verification can be a pain in the tail--i usually check it and recheck it before i submit but it usually comes back invalid code. What if you had to submit to 5 or more directories? I submit to any and all directories so its wasting my valuable time when i could use the time doing others things. It's not that hard to switch off the captcha for a few days or so, right? Anyway, my point is that captcha sucks and please be nice and turn it off for the DP Members!
new here.. can somone point me to a good directory list whether its here or offsite? I am catching this directory bug too..
image verification is OK, but those that are unreadable are pain in the ass, sometimes I have to write 2 times untill I write correctly
I'm contemplating putting in some throttling measures for this sort of behaviour, to limit the number of sites that can be submitted from one IP in a day. Although I don't have a problem with submission services with lots of different clients, more often than not when you get a bunch of submissions from one person, it's a heap of identikit MFA spam. What makes you think that directory spammers don't hang out at DP as well?
I am with Chris on the Image Validations.. its so annoying esp those on phpld 2. you cant even read whether its a O or a D other thing i hate is the Ajax Category Selection.. its so hard + time consuming to manually pick a category for so many sites that i leave if i see this..
Actually I use to use the complaint that without image verification you gets tons of spam. Ive disabled them on request (by you and another member) and guess what I still get the same amount of shit. So I have decided image verification is off till the directory gains a PR.
With me its a case of beggers can be choosers so in getting my free links im not too fussy with the directory, i just keep submitting to each new one i can, i never reach the end of my list, it just keeps growing.