Web Directory Blacklist - Page 2

Web Gazelle · 07-08-2006, 11:04 AM

Yeah, nofollows and jump scripts make them useless. Do they think they are giving enough traffic to your site that we wouldn't care if a spider can crawl the link or not?

CJ Jefferson · 07-08-2006, 04:57 PM

There are some directories out there gathering email addresses for phishing attempts.

A few months back I submitted a site to about 50 directories using an email address I adopted solely for this purpose. Within a couple of weeks, phishing emails were arriving. I pay someone else to submit to directories now.

Manish Pandey · 07-13-2006, 03:25 PM

Cool John... so... good ones should not have...

No-follow attrib;
Dynamic links;
Jumping links;
Late approval;
Links must not open on the other window;

well that what i could think of at this moment...

uca · 07-19-2006, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manish Pandey

Cool John... so... good ones should not have...

No-follow attrib;
Dynamic links;
Jumping links;
Late approval;
Links must not open on the other window;

well that what i could think of at this moment...

Why not in another window?

Himalayan · 07-21-2006, 01:07 AM

This is a great idea. Some directories really waste of time nothing else and they don't give any response.

Kalina · 07-21-2006, 03:49 AM

We should just start listing them.

stoner3221 · 07-23-2006, 05:20 PM

Directory black list have always been a bad idea and were popular about ten yours ago. A ticked off affiliate merchant who could not get listed in a directory would run to the black lists to get the site listed with a bunch of bogus claims and on occasion be successful in doing do. Every list I have ever seen seems to go off the deep end and add sites that do not belong on it. Gee that sounds like ODP editor black lists that used to be public.

Dustin07 · 10-14-2006, 06:14 PM

a blacklist would be a pain the ass to consult. It's easy with something like adsense, because you just blacklist the advertisers and they never pop up... but do you really plan to consult a list before each and every directory submission? Maybe it would be worth it for paid listings, but free? I submit way to much to do something like this.

I personally just try to stick with the vilesilencer list of 'approved' directories and hope for the best.

vistadivine.com · 10-16-2006, 07:23 AM

Ya the first one should be Dmoz.

Akash

priyo · 10-22-2006, 10:56 AM

Great Idea John, Lets we start listing them.

John Scott · 10-22-2006, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoner3221

Directory black list have always been a bad idea and were popular about ten yours ago. A ticked off affiliate merchant who could not get listed in a directory would run to the black lists to get the site listed with a bunch of bogus claims and on occasion be successful in doing do. Every list I have ever seen seems to go off the deep end and add sites that do not belong on it. Gee that sounds like ODP editor black lists that used to be public.

Good points, but I think it can be done by a community. Just needs to have objective rules and standards for blacklisting.

vistadivine.com · 10-23-2006, 12:27 AM

So which is the next directory in the blacklist.

Akash

John Scott · 10-23-2006, 01:03 AM

First off, you need a set of criteria for blacklisting directories.

WillL · 10-23-2006, 01:18 AM

There should be no blacklisting. Who are we to choose. It should have a user rating.

Where if you've used them you rate them.

John Scott · 10-23-2006, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WillL

Who are we to choose.

Who better than the consumer to blacklist?

WillL · 10-23-2006, 01:37 AM

that's true. But I think if this happens people might have "grudges" I'm all for the idea of shaming the bad ones. But if we do this people might take it a bit out of hand.

But , if we rate them there's no problems. I mean say if v7n directory got blacklisted by dp , it won't but if it did it would take away some profit I'm sure.

I think rating's better then blacklisting.

Bernard · 10-23-2006, 06:39 AM

FYI, business.com is no longer using rel="nofollow" as was posted back in July. That's the problem with lists, it takes a lot of time and effort to maintain them and keep them up to date.

Dustin07 · 10-23-2006, 09:52 AM

Quote:

I think rating's better then blacklisting.

A rating system might work better. you could rate a directory as a '0' or '10'. If users could browse the directories 'by rating' then it would be a good combination of using a 'pre-approved' list with a blacklist.

Marketing Guy · 10-24-2006, 08:05 AM

IMO a list of good directories would be:

a) More useful
b) Less likely to cause flames
c) Less likely to have competitors adding *your* directory

We could base it on the same criteria - just add sites that make the grade.

MG