Few Questions/Suggestions To Directory Owners

Hello Experts,
I just submitted a website to around 100 directories
What I found is most directories claims to take in average 3 months to review the free links submitted whereas I could see pending links are as less as 100-500, now here are my questions:

1. How many links do you review per day for your directories ? Why do not you outsource a little bit of it to make the process smoother,faster and stricter?

2. At least 5-10% directories I could not pass Image Verification even after 5-6 retries (One was paid submission as well) , questions is how many website do you submit yourself to check whether things are working fine?

3. For directories which are getting spammed badly, I have the following suggestion, just ensure that the email address matches to that of the domain which is getting submitted, and make the user confirm his email address by sending an email , in this way all outsourced spamming will stop.

4. For paid links can you not do some php coding so that links are shown in random orders since you charge equal amount for getting premium listed in your website?

5. I think there are few directories who never accept free websites, but still keeps this option, are there list of such directories available somewhere ?

I am just a newbie , so take it easy

 

I review all the submissions to my directories!
My directories are paid ,so it's easier !


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Wow what a lot of questions

1) This depends on the type of directory you have, whether it is free or paid, whether its a general or niche directory. In the majority of cases free general directories (if promoted correctly) get the most traffic and the most submissions. Outsource is obviously a good idea however if your running a free directory how do you pay for the outsourcing, secondly most people who run good directories want to maintain a high quality of links, therefore they don't like to intrust that power to someone else... i wouldnt want someone else approving links to my directory, i have my own specific set of standards for my directory.

2) Image verification is a bit of a pain - firstly its good to have because it stops completely automated submissions however its some times really hard to read. As an example phpLD2.x (the free version of the script) only allows one version of the image verification (hence there is no real choice). phpLD3.x on the other hand allows you to choose the complexity of the image verification. At the end of the day if you can change the complexity its best to make it as easy as possible... image verification really only stops totally automated submissions - in the majority of cases it hinders proper submitters as well!

3) Some directories do inforce this, although obviously it depends on the script, avalaible mods and various other factors.

4) Again this depends on the script. In the majority of cases people will order their lists by alphabet, PR, hits or date submitted (which are the usual options avaliable). At the end of the day its a personal view how you order things, im oftern caught between all options, although i tend towards the latest/newest links being listed at the top. At the end of the day though more emphasis is put on being on a PR or well indexed page as apposed to a high traffic yielding page - although this obviously depends entire on the type of directory.

5) There are always going to be some directories that say they do accept free submissions but don't - at the end of the day theres no real point in worrying when your submitting a link for free. In the majority of cases you'll find your link gets approved in under a week... in some cases it takes longer, but that obviously depends on the demand imposed on the directory, the number of submissions that it recieves and obviously the amount of avaliable time the webmaster has to approve those free links. At the end of the day paid listings are always going to come first over free listings.

Hope some of that made sense and answered a few of your questions. im sure as with every thing people will agree with some bits and disagree with others. At the end of the day though each directory and its owner is different hence everyone has a slightly different perspective.

 

For dirsensei which has a new mod of deeplink urls and dirsurfer its almost 24 hours or less as they are paid.
For my free one average of 10-20 a day.

I do have problems too with image verification but thats there so I have to try.

Some of us do and some don't. (I guess) I used to be a Regional Editor for DMOZ so the tools I am using for editing which includes a spider tool to track illegal sites is present.

This is true. In my directories I use number of hits. I don't use page rank coz I find it unfair for sites without it.

In my case don't worry about it. Being a former DMOZ Top regional Editor I know what a quality site is.

 

hope that helps.

 

they say this just to make you buy a featured link. I review listings in my part time, never had a listing that stood more than two weeks in the queue and I get around 50 submissions/day. Off course, I have this rule that helps me: "Your site is PR0 than pay $1 or you're out"

the biggest pain in the... is when Google updates PR, I then must verify all the sites to check which changed from 1+ to zero and erase them.

 

All of them that make it past my captcha and other filters. I may not add them immediately, but I at least look at them all every day. This is pretty easy for niche directories with good spam-blocking measures.

Image verification is for noobs.

Getting spammed badly is for noobs.

But unlike SarahK, I think this is a good suggestion for slowing down spam. If people don't have time to set up an email address for directory submissions for each website, they probably have too many sites which they don't have time to maintain.