Do you ever (now be honest) read directory submission guidelines?

In this ever expanding directory world, where new directories popup every single day, theres an ever increasing number of directories to submit your website to. The question is, being totally honest, do you ever read the guidelines?

I've been repromoting the completely free Unleashed General Directory for about 3 weeks now (which i will eventually sell when we get the new PR update) and i have written, what i believe to be, reasonable submission guidelines.

Currently im on about 630 active links (my target being the 1000 mark before i sell) the problem is 50% of website details that are submitted simply don't follow the guidelines!

If i'm being perfectly honest, i never read guidelines on people directories (unless of course its a paid submission and really worth it) - the reason being i feel that my tite, description etc would generally conform pretty much 99% of the time to every average directory and its guidelines.

So do you read submission guidelines on directories or do you just submit regardless?

(in some cases i have even seen submission guidelines BELOW the input form - whats the point in that?)

 

i never read guidelines on people directories too.because my english is not good.

 

i do when i submit ... most of the times .. Not gonna lie there are several times i just submit the site in the most appropriate category ... and hope that the site didn't say we don't allow general directories because if they do they wouldn't have a directory category ..

 

I never read anything on a directory.

 

I try to, but many site owners make it like finding a needle in a haystack.

The biggy questions for me are deep links, can title be something other than site name, length restrictions on description, and if keyword lists are included what the delimeter should be.

Don't know why so many leave these issues unclear?

I also think the long-winded guidelines should be listed on their own page, with a shorter version right on the submission page.

 

i voted sometimes, because i use to.

 

I give them a quicky scan. Most of the times.

 

If it looks like a standard submission I don't bother, but if there's extra fields such as deeplinks I give them a quick scan.

 

i dont read guidlines for general directories.

a] because i dont submit spammy sites
b] my sites always have content, and are fully working
c] my sites aint porn or illegal
d] my submissions (90%) of the time use proper site titles (sometimes i will use a keyword or 2 in title) and descriptions.

 

Well, I've written simple guidelines/restrictions in my directory about what submission that I'll reject.
But I still get 70% - 80% invalid submissions
Seem most submitter is become blind about this one.

 

If it's a pay-per submission, I definitely read because I don't want a non-refundable link that might not get submitted...

Otherwise, a Directory submission is a Directory submission... No need to read, hehe.

 

i skim of the points, most of them are copying each other so, it's no big news...

 

I would like to read that if they have any.

But in fact many directories I submit has not guidelines.

Otherwise, I often receive the submission not following my guideline

 

I've read over half of the guidelines of the places I've submitted too. Well, it would likely have been 3/4th of the directories, but it turns out some places don't like what I have to offer... or didn't have a proper category for my niche.

I do think that it's important to at least skim through the guidelines, you never really know what you are signing away otherwise.
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I do read them

I know 95% of people submitting to my main directory don`t as 95% of sites get rejected purely because they did`nt read the very simple guidlines

 

I read them, and I tend to get a decent acceptance rate as a result. I mean, it isn't exactly hard work to make that little bit of extra effort.

I do think that non-standard guidelines should be highlighted on the submission page, as well as having a dedicated page for the detailed guidelines.

I've actually got brief guidelines on the page, a separate page of all the guidelines, and a Javascript thingy that pops up when people submit certain words or tlds that obviously don't fit.

 

It is very logical:

1. I submit to 300 free link directories / day => I don't care if some of them don't list me => I never read the guidelines, its free, if I get rejected I come back again later

2. If I pay => I sure do read everything

Thats really simple isn't it ?

 

I don't bother reading unless I am rejected, then I'm trying to determine the reason by reading their guidelines
So I go back and read whatever they have before resubmitting. Saves me time for the sites that are accepted in the first place

 

I voted sometimes too, there are a lot of low quality directories on the web that doesn't need us to waste time to read how to submit our spam sites.

I was sure the result of the pole was 'sometimes', cause people are so lazy! They prefer submit to 100 directories a day and get 20 accepted. Than 30 submissions a day and 30 accepted.