CainIV - 5:23 am on Feb 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

I run two high quality directories. I do paid listings, and I ask for links back for free submissions.

Does this mean my directories are crap? No, they are edited by me, and me alone, and I visit every site that gets submitted and run over each one with a fine tooth comb.

Do I care that engine X or Y now doesnt believe reciprocal linking is ethical? Not at all...

Most site submissions fail inevitably, and I always send a mail back telling the submitted why.

I do not use adsense, but would if I felt inclined to.

None of these things make my directories crap by any means. They have outlasted 90% of the websites that have came are fallen over the last 5 years. None of them have ever been penalized, deindexed.