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

Guilty as charged! I was one of the 50% who scanned your guidelines and missed the key one.

If any of your directory rules are different (speaking to all dir owners, not just sabian), or even slightly different than the norm, make sure it stands out. Jumps out even. Or it WILL GET MISSED!

I've been on thousands of directory sites and 95% of them all have pretty much the same rules. So its easy to get rule blind and miss things on the 5% that have something different in how they want things.

Place your guidelines where they can be seen. Not below the submission form. Beside it is ok. Above is better. And don't put it on a separate page, unless you are a high quality, and expensive directory, otherwise it does not get read. Especially if I've already add my text to the form and don't want to risk loosing it, only to have to add it again, by double checking a separate rules page.

It's one thing to bitch to us submitters who do, and will, make mistakes. It's another to make the process the easiest possible so as to help us avoid making the mistakes in the first place. You'll have less sites to edit/move/reject and us submitters will get higher acceptance ratios.

Speaking of which. I'm off to review my submission page and its guidelines on my new dir.