What are your factors for accepting quality sites?

So, I just started up.

www.listikal.com/directory

and I'm getting flooded from what appear to be quality site, but am suspicious due the mass amount coming in. None of submitted a reciprocal, so it looks as though they are spam. What are all of your determinations behind accepting quality links?

 

Just because you are getting a lot of submissions..need not mean they are all spam....maybe some directory submission service is submitting ..these usually have a big order book and submit all sites together.

If they appear to be quality sites to you, then accept them. .

 

If the screen real estate has more ads then content you know it is not a quality site.

 

My criteria is sites that have at least a pr2. I think that anyone who is focused and trying to promote a site should have no problem getting a pr2. I get submissions to my directories that are pr3 or 4 that have scraped content that I will not include. I also consider sites that seem to have original content that is not scraped. I also take in sites that appear to be original.
I think alot has to do with are you a gerneral directory or a niche?

 

BINGO! You know it's trash when the theme of the submission is targeted to a specific subject, but the site is dominated with 3rd party ads just for good measure.

Also be sure to check below the surface, junk submitters are smart and know that some reviews only go to the home page. It's true what they say about what's inside that counts.

 

I'm getting no Reciprocals though, should I be requiring them in the beginning?

 

Quality sites had to start from PR0 as well

 

You're offering regular and reciprocal for free, so why should anybody bother submitting a reciprocal?