Yes.... but now if they would only use their real email addresses... though i cant blame them as some jerk offs spam them after they get the real ones... thx malcolm
i usually delete dead links if free inclusion method is used and for paid inclusion, i'm sending the site in queue for 1 month (giving the site a second chance before deletion).
That's in our submission guide we would delete dead links We would check the links in the category when one site accepted, that would help save more time.
We check them weekly and put the dead ones in pending. I was able to relist one yesterday that came back after a month down. Things happen and it's easier to make them pending so they can be relisted later than it is to do a new review later and write a new description. Of course, I go out looking for links to populate empty categories so deleting links makes more work for me in the long run. I hate empty categories, having good content is too important to neglect.
I have run a free web directory, but I was not so good at directory business before and there are some sites which are not following our submission guide got accepted So if it is a free one, I would keep them away. We are not evil. If it is a paid one, I would send an email or make a refund BTW, have you heard dmoz would send you an email before deleting your link?
that's cool with dealing between free & paid directories... no, i don't know YET... will confirm when my sites get listed there, haha
perhaps adding a no-follow attribute to the paid dead links will be a better choise! for the free ones, am sure most of us delete it!
What about having a dead link page with a contact form. If the link owner doesn't claim in 6 months deleted the link.
How about if the person whos link got deleted just contact the directory owner and request that that link be re-added ... i mean if he wants it back so bad why wont he contact ya back? I mean i would if someone deleted mine ... id send you my famous........ ummm excuse me letter
Not really, then you have a directory full of link rot that no-one would actually want to use. Better to just put them in pending and re-review or delete later on.
I made a script that checks all sites in my directories once a month - if a site is down for 2 month i delete it
no i dont delete them, but i inactivate them for 7 days and contact the owner, and if no reply and the site is not up ... than i remove them from the database
We move them to a specific subtopic after checking if there's a new url available. After a month or so we check the ones which were moved to that topic again. If they are still ofline, they are marked for deletion. A tool removes the marked ones every now and then. You can use a tool like Xenu for finding bad links, but this tool won't show sites which were hijacked by porn sites or simular. I've seen a lot of site where the content has changed to adult since they were added. Hugo
404's immediately deleted. parked pages immediately deleted. other errors might be checked again, reviewed manually or deleted immediately. redirects sometimes updated to redirected url.