To accept or not to accept?

Would you accept this site http://www.counterstop.com?

 

yeah...whts the problem with site.

 

wow you got a submission ?

 

Lungisa drew this one to my attention. He is uneasy with the key word rich content and he is not sure whether its legitimate or not.

No such luck. He is scouring the net for quality sites and he is battling. I just thought it was an interesting one.

 

with those keywords scrolling in the bottom no wouldn't accept

 

It offers the product it sells, its clean, its honest and even though it does us that scrolling thing I don't think that would affect its indexing, so probably.

 

The site is MFS, Made For Search engines, Made for serp's, made for spiders and its crammed full of keywords. Despite which it looks sort of OK. But is it? This is the question Lungisa was asking and that's precisely the sort of question I believe all directory masters should be asking.

Its not an easy one to answer and whilst everyone will have a different point of view, this is the sort of thing we should be debating. Why is there no invitation for service providers to list and do business? I suspect its WIP (work in progress) in one form or another and whilst that's never a good reason to reject a submission, I suspect the worst. They have gone to great length to cover their tracks if that's what they are doing. I would look for something a little less professional.

 

seems like a helpful site. I put in my state and found local people so i don't see a problem with it.

 

how about this affiliate site?

http://www.amazing-cover-letters.com/

Would you accept it? or reject?

just wondering is all

 

lol all ' scam sites look the same ' like seo elite , keyword elite and other make cash fast time sites are the worst. they don't even try to make them look legit

 

I think its a good site, could be improved with more information about how to use the site

There is nothing wrong, in my book, with trying to get good SE rankings, no rankings means , no visitors, mean no business , means pretty soon, no website

Be wary of creating an "ethics" code that might make sense to you but simply imposes unecessary burdens on you an your associates

 

Heres the thing though...

Usually when your checking them at random looking for parked pages, suspended pages,
dead links, banned sites and such from the admin panel you will find a "jewel in the ruff"
... with a nice PR

thx
malcolm

 

I am not sure if text scrolling at the bottom is readable by search engines, but check out the description. It is full of keywords.

 

The scrollie thing needs to go and the listings could use more detail, but look at all the article content. I'd say the site is acceptable.

BTW - RFLOL reading funkymarios's comment; that deserves a rep.

 

I would think that as its in the body content as marquee text it is readable and from what little research I did it should be fine http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links/

 

I am going to take a simple stab in the dark here. I would be happy to test the theory, but I bet I am right.

They provide you sources to request bids from. They take the manufacturer's bid and mark it up 10% (or whatever). Then you pay them possibly through a link or such. In the end they receive the 10% markup which is very very common in the business world. They simply provide a service to you produced by another manufacturer (middle man concept).

I wouldn't call it an unacceptable practice.

Meta Description

It is clearly over stuffed, but it is still relevant. (that is more there problem than yours)

Meta Keywords

The same problem with over stuffing here, but keywords are 90% useless in most cases anyway.

Conclusion
I would have no problem accepting their submission, but they could seriously optimize their site for better results.

 

sure why not

 

What is right? What is wrong? Who are we building our directories for?

Integrity and a bit of expeience is all you need in the way of a code. And this is the example we should be setting for newcomers entering this market.

When directory masters begin to understand that they have an obligation and responsibility to ask questions, to set and maintain generally acceptable standards.