Amazing Number of Submit URLs Do not Work

Directories that just dont cut the mustard

[Dayo_UK]

Not sure if this should be in building link development or directories page, but just a bit of a rant!

Going through the regular submission to directories to build up the link pop/and web presence - and I just find it amazing how many directories just dont seem to work properly.

On my last crawl for directories to submit too, I would say that 50% of the submit forms did not work, another 10-20% of directories were not accepting submissions.. another 10-20% required that you set up an account to submit your url (No doubt so they can send you spam emails) and then there are the ones that you have to pay to get listed!

So I would say for every 10 directories viewed 1 or 2 I could submit too - and I probably wont get listed.

Ohh the fun of building up link popularity :)

[Shak]

Dayo,

I tend to agree with you.

however a number of directory staff that I have spoken to have given a similar reason, althought its NO excuse for not allowing submissions.

Many automated scripts have been doing the rounds, and basically spamming the living daylights out of these directories, leading ceratin management to block the submission systems.

obviously there are very sinple measures to counter this, but as we all know, common sense is not a common thing.

furthermore I have noticed many directory owners just dont give a damn anymore, their dreams of selling out to Yahoo are NO longer there, and their sites are just fading away with what little traffic they have.

Shak

[pixel_juice]

There was a recent post on the same subject, but I've not been able to find it.

Shak has it totally right. Through a mixture of spam, poor technical knowledge and lack of interest there are many directories and submissions sites that simply do not work.

[Macguru]

I guess Shak pretty well explained it. Auto submitters, the fall of cyber media placement revenues combined with the popping of the dot com bubble, killed a lot of small directories.

Back in 2001, we spent more than 2K hours to build a decent Vortal and local directories database. Now, more than half of it has gone south and the database became too costly to update. We just nuke records from it every day. We dont update it anymore but for niche market finds and other market shifts.

On the other hand, some well implanted (or smarter) mid sized directories bellied up a bit on residual traffic for the same reason. So it's less forms to fill, for the same trafic.

There is always a bright side to discover! :)