I used to have a few PHPLD sites. And I had purchased a link building thing off of ebay. Come to find out, my directories was listed in it that was how they were getting through to submitting (paid directories with captcha), no titles, no desc all that spam stuff. It was using MSN Live or something.
What a bad boy Actually 70% off our FREE submits get deleted within seconds for various reasons some of which are included below... Rule #1 Keyword Stuffed (Title & Descrips) = Deleted Rule #2 Super long URLs (joes-bodyshop-new-york-city.com) = Deleted Rule #3 Automated Submission ( Not hard to figure out) = Deleted Rule #4 Tricksters (Free submits adding as "featured") = Deleted & Banned Rule #5 Deep links (Misused) = Deleted Thats before we even go to look at the site submitted Visual review once at the site in question... Check# 1. Navigation Check# 2. design Check# 3. content If your site has passed the above review then your FREE submit is added into our index. laterz malcolm