If you dont mind taking the time, im curious about what type of sites people wont list in their directories, most of us have the usual and obvious ones stated in our guidelines but theres probably a few more that are questionable. To be honest if i was to list all the guidelines i would like to have in place then a submitter would be faced with a 50 point list but i know they wouldn't read it. Some sites i have to admit that im not fully sure what their about, for example forex, theres a basic idea about that in my head but should i be listing them i dont know. Proxy sites, do the search engines have a problem with them in any way? I think i should alter my guidelines in a couple of directories, for example stating no child pornography, it probably appears like im saying "but all other porn is ok" Im not sure why many owners specify on that one (dont state the obvious) lol, i know people still ignore them too. One thing i dont mind doing though is still listing another directory even though they may have declined mine, they obviously have their reasons and im fine with that.
All the sites we won't accept has been listed in our guidelines. What's the different from yours, we do not accept adult, all the submission do not follow our guideline would be deleted without review.
One guy on here has found that his listings for gambling and casino category has just been downgraded from PR4 to PR0 by G Might be that G has now got a search algorithm to sort out those listings We don't accept either category on our directory
One reason pages drop to PR0 is often caused by pages being deindexed when Google takes it's PR snapshot. One of my directories had a drop in indexed pages for a week, but they have all came back. It was bad timing, the indexed pages got PR3 and the pages which weren't indexed at the snapshot sank to PR0. I don't think statements about gambling sites being dropped is helpful.
Does paypal have a similar policy with adults sites as they do with gambling sites? As i was reading here the other day about how taking payments from gambling sites through paypal was risky. I wonder why paypal decides that regarding gambling sites, are they taking US gambling laws into consideration i wonder, and would those laws hold any strength on the internet if their US laws. I see a bit of confusion, well a lot actually, my own mostly, regarding laws within countries and internet legal problems, surely a countries laws cant be enforced throughtout the internet, where in another country its perfectly legal to purchase something or take part in something. Isn't the world a tricky place.
Adult and crap, i agree on that, there are plenty of crap sites out there, some sites at first glance look decent, then a take a look around and see its true colors, its always worth looking beyond a nice homepage and finding out that the site is not of much use.
The main problem I have is sites being submitted to my UK directory which are not relevant to the UK. I'm OK with any site, e.g. directories, shopping, software, etc. from any country as long as somebody in the UK can use it.
I don't accept adult, gambling or MFA sites. I guess it's more of a personal conviction than anything. Secondly, I see little value in adding these type sites. Since starting my directory, I have only recieved a very few Paid submissions from adult or gambling sites. Most of them have been reciprocal link submissions and with all the controversy surrounding linking with these type sites it just not worth it to me.
I don't do adult related (porn) or anything classified as illegal in the country where I live, which includes online gambling. Pipes - Paypal has to take US gambling laws into consideration. They were bought out by eBay in 2002 which is a U.S. company. Also, PayPal and its parent, eBay, have already payed a $10 million fine in 2003 to settle allegations they aided illegal offshore and online gambling from 2000-2002. Scott
There are plenty of sites that we don't accept, maybe being a free directory we can exercise more judgement in what is acceptable. Besides the obvious adult, MFA, and affiliate sites. We don't take financial or medical advice from anonymous sources. We don't take real estate sites from companies without a local address We don't take Blogs less than 6 months old and less than 25 entries. We don't take forums with less than 100 posts by at least 25 people We don't accept sites with less than 10 pages We look very closely at sites with no pages indexed by Google. There are exceptions to the above for small business owners and beginners. I figure with the millions of sites out there we can be picky ... there is no fast road to quality.
We wont accept - "Hardcore"/Extreme Adult - Warez/Piracy - Broken/Dead - MFA or more advertising than content sites
Gambling, porno, sites that link to too many gambling or pornos, sites that resemble link farms, MFA's the usual, I am pretty picky, rejected at least 50% of submissions so far.
Type in Gambling in Google you'll see results in Gambling related. Do you really think Google cares what you list on your websites such's as Gambling and Adult related? If Google,inc. Does not want those type of sites, then it should not be on it's own search results, if listing those sites do have some effect, then Google is a dictator and a hypocrite.
Is this the main reason why people don't list these type of sites? For example, why not be like Yahoo! and take advantage of Adult related sites and charge an extra 400 buckaroos? And gambling sites do serve surfers out there. If you call yourself a General directory, you should at least care enough to have gambling sites to serve that small sector. Unless of course, you have the mentality that your directory is to serve webmasters rather then people who wish to find quality sites.
I think most of us are tied up with Paypal as a payment processor, when or IF the time comes when other payment methods comes, then I think we would be able to accept those sites.