dbcooper - 7:38 pm on Nov 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

>These are sites that "Adsense was made for" --- not the other way around.

Well said. I've always stumbled over how the say that my directories were there long before Adsense was around.

>monetize

While there might be plenty of exceptions, overall, I think the perceived value of directories is going down as search 'reach' increases. To get the ROI they need to make the time spent worthwhile, directory owners are going to have to automate more. That automation process is going to have to include rigorous pre-qualifying questions on the input forms themselves as well as the underlying Terms (which nobody reads anyway). I've spent many hours over forms input recently doing just that and it works. I now vet and subsequently delete about 70% of the submission without ever going to their site simply based on how they chose to answer or ignore the form.