I am eager to know by what set of rules you judge quality and popularity of site? Give the guidelines needed for it Guide lines or set of rules?
What is this for? When reviewing a web site submitted to a directory?, subitting your site to other directories?
For Quality --the answer is simple. How much value it gives to visitors by way of contents. For popularity --I am not too sure. But I judge --amount of backlinks + Alexa (though it can be manipulated -not all do it)
I just check how much money they pay me lol (j/k) but hey if someone pays me 20 k for a crappy site to be listed, why not ? I will just get another new directories up and running . But checking for backlinks for site submitted is waste of time, but if you were talking about how to improve your own site well thats other story, but from the thread title i got the vibes that you were talking about your sites and how to improve them and what others think should be criteria for quality. But quality as a word comes to my mind as appealing looks, maybe something like http://www.directorydream.com/ . Simple setup,quick to load (ooh gawd do i close those directories that load in like 5 seconds or what ). Lots of other factors it depends from person to person. If i asked you hey you think www.h-log.com is quality site? Probably lots will say (no its crap/shit etc etc., reasons could vary like maybe they are jealous (lol), or they in bad mood maybe ? or maybe they never lie ? ) "quality" is too vague....
I like a directory that is using a custom or customized template. A decent logo helps. If I have seen it being promoted that is also a big plus because it means they are serious about running a directory business.
Suppose if there are two websites who are having PR5 and if they are web hosting companies how will you judge quality of them?
related articles, resources for costumers, how helpful those resources are, who they partner with, how good of a knowledge they have towards hosting, who works for them? are they educated? do they have any rewards? any testimonials? who wrote the testimonials? ....... etc
I am looking for some standarad guidelines like Design of the site should be good Not too much ads etc.,
Dmoz do a pretty good job of coming up with a standard set of guidelines. What you will need to add to them pretty much depends on your niche and personal preferences. What they don't make a big deal about is accessibility, you might want to exclude or discourage websites that blind or deaf people can't use. You might not like too much Flash, javascript overload, or popups. Another thing to consider is how you're going to deal with duplicate or almost duplicate content, because you will see a lot of this submitted. I'm not just talking about websites that exactly mirror other ones. There are a lot of websites that provide essentially the same set of information, for example from a set of feeds or free articles, or else they have a lot of query-driven content that could be pretty much identical on most pages. How are you going to deal with these?
That's what I would have to say first! Few other factors: The information on a website also has to be as accurate, not misleading, as possible. Maintenance of a website, no broken link, for example. No too many ads. Clean web design can be considered as quality because the impression of it is very important.
Some very good points there. To me, the site must meet its purpose too, next to being fast, clean, not too many ads, etc. Ask yourself the question 'what do users want ?' and you'll get all the quality answers. So what about popularity of site? www.shrugle.com
Sometimes a crappy site with well written descriptions manage to drive long tail traffic to your directories. It is really a give and take situation where you cannot just simply ban everyone with a crappy site. It they don't take less than a few moments to write a decent lengthy description accompanying the submission entry, then go ahead and ban them.
It has to meet the criteria in my submission guidelines. Basically, no porn, gambling, too many ad's, unfinished etc. Biggest problem I have is with my UK directory getting inappropriate submissions.
Hello... There are many reasons for a site to be rejected for quality control issues 1. Site under construction 2. Links are dead or lack of content when links clicked 3. Images pics are very poor in quality fuzzy and such 4. No pics and just words -------> I hate sites without 5. Template is horrible or poorly designed 6. Images and or word are mixed into each other 7. Browser Issues looks great in IE but not in FF or others 8. Category Purposely submitted to inappropriate....JUST for PRs sake! 9. Non following of rules and conditions 10. Irrelevant Page Content.....just hype 11. Content was stolen from another similar site or same words repeated for SEs 12. Ridicules Titles or Urls ...... screws up my admin panel Well thats off the top of my head and many reasons for me to decline acceptance thx malcolm