fatinfo.com

People who submit sites to directories are dumb robots. They don’t read instructions, nor do they write in complete sentences for their site descriptions. My patience has grown very thin in making the choices to look at their sites and consider accepting them vs. the 1 click delete (ban) button.

A quick solution to fight this problem is to make the required text description field 200 characters. If they decide to keyword stuff the description field, good for them because that leads me to believe they don’t really care about the acceptance rate of their site submissions. How hard is it to write 2-3 complete sentences in English? Let’s get real here because descriptions such as “MySite.com offers keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, and more keywords. These keywords, and articles of keyword, keyword, keyword make great keyword.” does not constitute a complete site description. Who would even want to read it?

Someone submitted 4 websites with only keywords in the descriptions and I had this private message exchange with them.

Originally Posted by fatinfo guy
Keywords only in descriptions are not cool. Your listings have been deleted. You may submit again.

Their Response
I am not interested, I decide what is cool for my description.

I loved the audacity of how this unfortunate site submitter was determined to spam directories just the way they like it, but do they know that administrators are armed with 1 click banning vs. the 5 minutes they spent multiple clicking through the submission process?

If a human won’t read your site description, then it should be banned from submission. We all would certainly build more unique content rich directories that search engines love if submitters would do their part while directory administrators set tougher acceptance guidelines.By doing this, the numbers of submissions to the site are going to hit rock bottom. Guess this is what they mean quality over quantity. If we all want quantity, we might as well take all the DMOZ entries as our own. Some directories are actually dumb enough to do this.

In conclusion, don’t be a robot when you submit a site to a directory or any directory, and your rate of acceptance will be much higher.