Rodney - 8:29 pm on May 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm with you on this one incrediBill. I've been running a niche directory site for over 10 years now and it kills me when I see companies try to stuff the "title" and "description" areas with a big long list of keywords.

It's not like I don't provide tooltips and instructions on how to correctly fill out the form.

I think the problem is threefold:

1) I think some people think that the reviews aren't hand checked (even though the site says that they are). So they try whatever spammy techniques they read in some SEO ebook.

2) The others I think still feel it's OK to load up the keywords in order to better position their site (probably because they read it somewhere)

3) Some people are just skimmers :)

I miss the days when everyone felt like they had to have a Yahoo directory entry. Back then, it seemed like site owners paid more attention on how to properly submit to a directory :)