After reading a nonsensical post about instant submissions I got thinking about auto approve directories. What would happen if you set up a directory to auto approve everything and then just let it run. I would imagine the directory would break under the strain before the search engines deindexed it. Has anyone ever tried this?
Ironically it would probably do ok if you think about it, fresh added content daily, cant see why it would be deindexed to be honest, it was be a heap of mess but...
I've got one of these, been running it for years and it works well. It saves me tons on useless approval time, doesn't affect anything and doesn't break under any strain whatsoever. I still get functionality to delete all spammy sites in minutes instead of hours, so it keeps the site 'clean'. Must maintain what a site is all about. Takes me minutes to delete say 100 spam websites - very cool! Still, nothing beats a good old fee to stop the spam.
syted - maybe but red knight doesn't seem to think so red knight - but you are still moderating, I mean literally leave the directory alone and do nothing, not even log in to delete anything.
ok you move on with your idea and invest some $$ and post again after a year, we all are curious to see results
I can save the 'year waiting bit' and tell you straight, that after several years running this site, I reckon out of 1000 sites added, probably only 30 were spam, and like I said, they only took a few minutes to take care of. My site is virtually spam free. See the spammers cannot win, as they are deleted as soon as they add themselves. It's not auto-deletion, but it's so fast, there's not much in it.
Yes, kind of, but no where near what you are thinking. And once my system is improved, it will be reduced even further. I'll eventually add a fee to be listed, then it will be virtually foolproof.
Yeah right, like I'm going to say that on a public forum. It's so the wrong audience, copying etc - need I say more..... hehe
Instant submissions(auto submission) is possible with softwares and robots. But I doubt if there are any instant approval . If there are instant approval, they must be a list of junk directory .
Well, you think what you like. But so much can be done with web design - you just dont know it. Our domain name instantly says we aren't for spammers, it's not in their interest to list with us. In other words, we operate in such a tight niche, a spammy link gets no value anyway, it would be ignored by our searchers. The spammers instantly lose, only to be deleted anyway. It's a no win situation for them, and as we tighten up with paid fees, spam becomes non-existent for us! Ofcourse by going paid, we sacrifice growth quite a bit, but not much choice these days, either we grow fast but get spammed or we grow more slowly and block spammers. Can't have it both ways - or can you.........
Millions of websites leave their stats pages open to the public, and it has just about the same effect, because basically the spammers hit them with fake referrers. I think having a directory on auto-approve would be similar: loads of dodgy submissions, you'd be linking out to malware and spammers, and the site wouldn't rank for anything useful and would probably be zapped eventually because it's in a bad neighbourhood. So as a result of it not ranking very well, it wouldn't necessarily attract a ton of bot traffic. Perhaps the best way to research this would be to speak to a few webmasters who have published their stats and get them to examine their logs, rather than bothering to set up a new site.
Just hire a decent web designer, and they will tell you this can be done. But the old lesson is the same: If you buy a cheap, shit script - you get shit. These dumb directory scripts are too basic to handle spammers properly and need to be totally re-designed by professionals, put on auto-pilot, secured by coding, usernames/passwords, anti-spam recognition coding and it's job done. Easy. The naysayers are wrong and can't take it when someone else figures out something they didn't. A case of sour grapes, so says the negative reps handed out lol.
Let's face it, people are scared to experiment, and combined with bullshit just leaves them standing still, while others move on and get rich, when it could of been them - had they listen....... If there's a spam problem, then it's self inflicted. I never had a serious spam submit problem, even when I had an inferior website. The amount of dodgy, mass link exchanges done these days, it's no wonder directories get so much spam. Spam is self inflicted because it invited by the untargeted link swaps going on - now that's shocking It's that simple to figure out. Arguing about who's right here, will not fix the problem. But then again it's not my problem is it as I don't suffer from spam.