How do you Evaluate Submission Titles?

Was reviewing the links on my directories and this question came to mind. For those who allow your submission titles to be different from URL, to what EXTEND do you allow the titles to be customised?

For example, will you allow things like 'Strongest Directory' if the URL is not strongestdirectory.com or something like that. Or like 'Cheapest Cars' since it will likely not be true although there is nothing wrong with these companies targeting these keywords.

So, perhaps you guys might want to share your opinions on this issue?

 

As you say, unless the URL reads strongestdirectory then personally i will edit because as you also point out, its highly unlikely that most of them are actually the biggest or strongest or cheapest.

Their not doing anything wrong, but unless your a major company who really does compare all of your prices for example to really claim you cant be beaten on price or service then i guess its like a little white lie.

 

Probably they want to rank higher for that keyword.

Unless it's way out of line, I would not change the title.

 

I wrote a blog post that offers tips for accepting titles with web directory submissions since I think it is a good topic to cover and benefit for some web directory owners.

Now, with that being said, there is one web site that I sometimes submit a title that is quite long for. So, I am a trouble maker sometimes on this one!

 

Great article mystikmedia!

Those are excellent guidelines to follow

 

There is no hard & fast rule for me. I usually see if the submitted title is actually representing the site or not.

If its the "official" site name, in most cases I will accept it without changing.

But sometimes I have to do few adjustment.

Yea I remember editing that one

PS. Nice article there, I left a comment.

 

I am more generous to give submitters freedom on that. But I don't allow keyword stuffing in there for sure.

 

I usually allow non-spammed keyword titles.
Take care that they are related to the site and not stuffed

 

For featured listings I am more lenient and allow some keywords if it is not the domain name.

Funny thing yesterday I got a regular submission from an SEO / Site Design company, in which the title was about 6 keywords, the domain name wasn't mentioned, no deeplinks were submitted and the description was around 14 words in which spelling had not been checked, and all this to a top category.

I changed the title to the domain name, fixed spelling to their description and added in more of a subjective description, although I kept their original as well, added 3 deeplinks to what I thought were important sections of the site, when looking at it from a users point of view, remembering this guy did not submit any deeplinks originally.

Low and behold I then copped this comment at directory critic

Now don't get me wrong, I love constructive critisiscm, it helps to improve my directory, but basically I copped a baseless comment like that because this "SEO Specialist" was too lazy to read our guidelines and too lazy to submit deeplinks. I pitty the websites who are paying this bozo to do their seo work.

 

I prefer to let the submitter describe their site as they feel it should be. Theoretically, they should know their site and intended audience better than I. Try not to change it.

But some are just so off the wall. Most of those are due to cheap submission services just plowing through whatever they can find. But the rest seem to be from people that should know better.

Those I will clean up a bit. Usually I just crop the title back to the first set of keywords/spam. Or if none of it usable, use the site name.

 

I'm quite strict on my directories with titles, but yesterday I realised my in bidding directory I'd been too relaxed and most submissions (particularly from other bidding directories) were keywords only. I've tightened up now and added the site names.

 

so it still seems that there is no clear way to decide whether the title is acceptable. But as far as i see it, we shld try not to change their titles unless it is really inappropriate as the submitters are targeting those keywords.

 

depends on submission type. that still does not mean people get away with 50 words in the title. otherwise its the name of the domain.