deleting submissions......

[rankland]

I've learned alot in the last year about running a directory, but it is time to do some sping cleaning.

I have back page submissions, blogs, pr0 sites that are scaring me, because of the amount of spam going around.

In a wk or 2 i will be done i have about 6500 more links to go through, but rankland decided to go quality instead of quantity.

If you think im being rash on the decision ill be willing to listen.

[hhheng]

I don't like your decision, because I'm trying to submit to many directories and only few got approved.

If you run a directory, you give the webmasters the oppoturnity to submit their websites, and you can reject or approve their submission. It's your responsibility to do the work, no matter the submission is too much or just a few. And you can't pass this responsibility to webmasters by setting limit to websites, just because you have no time to review and approve/reject the sites. You must be responsible for your directory!

It's very funny one time that a PR2 directory only accept PR4 websites. After submitting to many directories, I just have one thing to say to those directories which let websites pending for months, don't think you are another DMOZ.

[rankland]

Originally Posted by hhheng

I don't like your decision, because I'm trying to submit to many directories and only few got approved.

If you run a directory, you give the webmasters the oppoturnity to submit their websites, and you can reject or approve their submission. It's your responsibility to do the work, no matter the submission is too much or just a few. And you can't pass this responsibility to webmasters by setting limit to websites, just because you have no time to review and approve/reject the sites. You must be responsible for your directory!

It's very funny one time that a PR2 directory only accept PR4 websites. After submitting to many directories, I just have one thing to say to those directories which let websites pending for months, don't think you are another DMOZ.

For one i respect your views, but my directory has 3200 more sites to submit, and when i first started my directory i was very un educated on what to submit , and what not to submit.

Im a human edited directory, and oviously getting well known on the board.... very high on serp, and i think if i dont atleast try to clean my board im not only effecting my site... im effecting alot of sites that trusted me.

I understand what your saying, and my goal is to be rankland not dmoz.

The higher your site gets the more spam attempts to enter, and if i show them they have no chance they will leave me alone.

by the way whats the name of your site, and ill see if i could put you on a sponcored link.....

[DebbieV]

Originally Posted by rankland

The higher your site gets the more spam attempts to enter, and if i show them they have no chance they will leave me alone.

You'll soon find out otherwise.

[rankland]

Alls spam is to me is time consuming deleting them its no big deal...

I already get alot of traffic so i know that you never can get rid of them submitting, but you can slow them down.

we also are not going to make it easy to get in my directory,but anyway we are definately putting spamers on high security.

[BingoBalls]

You should be more scared of the links you already have in that directory and the amount of links you have for each category.

Take your health section. How many "quality" sites can you actually see? I spotted viagra, pharmaceuticals and an ass site under the one place. I also see a site that is nothing but a link farm with pop-ups and linking off to other viagra sites. You couldnt wave a bigger red flag to Google than this.

You also have pages of links which kinda making rankland look like nothing like the thousands of other directories out there - a link farm. Cut down on your link pages, cap the amount of links per category.

Of course you are going to have people spamming your directory after all its 1: A directory, 2: Offering free links and 3: $4 a link.

Once you weed out all the bad sites bump up your price to something more professional but you have to show your directory looks at quality over anything else.

PR0 sites mean nothing and its highly unfair that people judge a site over its PR because all sites must start at Zero just like rankland had to.

My advice is when reviewing a site just make sure its a quality site, that take a quick 30 seconds to do....look at their out bound links too. Many directores already do this and thats a reason why many of them have the rule of no affiliate sites, drug related, deep links (which you have) or subdomains.

[rankland]

Before i was aware of spaming sites, and how important it was to have have quality links only i made alot of bad submissions..

Ive already deleted 900 links at rankland in 3 categories . I would guess i have another 3 to 4 thousand more to go.

my next step is to get my categories out and bring up my popularity with a very clean high pr, high serp directory.

Trust me you will pay for regular links, and they wont be $4, but thanks for bringing up my crappy categories......the only reason im posting deleting submissions is so that there is no suprise when you dont see your site in my directory, because it was lo quality.

I did a test to see how strong my site was, and i put linkunow on my front page.....it to is a local and regional directory no where to be found on the board. Now its 2nd page in yahoo under free web directory,im #1 serp local and regional directory, local and regional internet directory, local and regional web directory in yahoo and they just spidered, and what site do you think is right below me ....linkunow... now thats power.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by rankland

Trust me you will pay for regular links, and they wont be $4, but thanks for bringing up my crappy categories......the only reason im posting deleting submissions is so that there is no suprise when you dont see your site in my directory, because it was lo quality.

Well your site is ranking really well for key terms so its justified in creating a higher price for a link but I would only think this once you get rid of all the bad links. In saying that its your directory so any action you do take is your own right.

Although people dont like having their links deleted from forums I wouldnt care about those crap links. Half the time these guys wont even notice because they are spamming directories anyway and if they do complain a simple answer of "your site is crap, thats why it was deleted" should do.

I would only worry about the people who have submitted a quality site but my guess is that you wont be deleting their link.

Just an FYI, I wasnt being negative about your directory to fling cow dung at your face. Just providing you feedback to help out.

Best of luck with your spring cleaning and I am sure your directory will end up being a quality one once you are set.

[rankland]

No seo or directory will be deleted unless you tried to get a free back page witch if you get away with it your very lucky.

As far as regular sites..

keywords in script , pr0 , free web pages my space ex, foren dialog in wrong category (Regional or world categories only), short script , spam, submitting indian phone and lives in california isnt going to cut it, sites that tried to double link , and if i made a mistake and put you in the wrong category ( all these sites will be deleted)....by, by

Im over it , its time to get dirdy, and i really wanted to say thank you for your help...