Today I rejected a boat load of links without even looking at the site. The reason? The submitters had a list of keywords in the title or description.
The reason this is a no, no is that it looks trashy. You may have a site that covers a lot of different products or services and you may feel that to properly describe the site you need to list them all in your description, however, doing so does not help your site for SEO purposes. The description of a link is simply text on the page and will, along with the other links in that category, help aggregate a certain theme or relevance for the page. But, this will only be helpful when much of the page has similar themes, keywords, etc. One description listing everything you sell is just nonsense and serves you no purpose. What’s worse is it looks really trashy and degrades the site and your link.
To be effective with your description you should include the keyword phrase that is your title, in the description in a natural language sort of way… not a list! This particular phrase will generate “SEO Credit” being on the page in a natural way. For true optimizing, focusing links on one primary phrase is far more effective than jamming a bunch of key terms together. This is what I have found to be true in my experience an is documented throughout the Internet by other pros. Good optimization considers both search engines and human interaction for ethical, long term success.
Later…
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I thought I would change gears and write something positive for a change.
uhh. I’m still thinking.
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Yep. Fun. Its fun to just skim through the queue and realize that most of these submitters did not read the rules or even the advice at the top of the submit page. They just blindly send their trash. I discovered the banning tool for the real jerks. I can ban by IP, email, domain… whatever I like. Fun I tell you!! Fun!
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Some think its OK after receiving an approval email to send me some advertisement for their website. I really hate spam, and do not like anyone sending me unsolicited offers. Especially after I approved your link. Well, guess what? If you do that, I just as quickly reverse my decision and delete your link from the directory. Think about it. Why would you possibly irritate a directory admin who just approved your link? Dumb.
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I was reading over my previous posts here and noticed that I have been progressively “speaking” in a harsher tone in each subsequent post. I guess, I could be nicer. Naaa.
Its just these darn idiots wasting my time and theirs submitting trash to my directory. Sometimes the sites are reasonably good, but the crap they send me in the link submission form disqualifies it immediately. Its like people trying to write their own ad-copy that sounds like complete horse-sh*t. And how hard is it to properly capitalize a title? ” The Nice Website”, not, “The nice website” — hello, third grade? How much work is it to get the category right… or even just close to right? Some can’t find the “Web Services” category and insist on using “Computers” for their crappy web design company. Do you sell computers, or computer parts? Maybe you offer tech information about computers? Oh… you do web design? So why the heck do you submit to the computer category?
This is a free web directory, so let’s make it “hard” to get in! I think I am going to get WAY tougher on submissions. I want to see if having a directory which is considered “tough” to get into will be more valued. The joke about that is, this one is not really that tough at all… just RTFR!! (Read The Freakin’ Rules). I think I will just go to the queue, and reject every single submission that needs ANY editing. That will clear them out faster and make the approval time faster. Yeah… lets start up the meat grinder.
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I got about 80 links from the same person in about a 45 minute time span, with the same description, similar title, different URLs and the same WRONG category. All for Flower delivery in India. Do you really think I would approve ANY of those? Its all just spam. All were rejected. Don’t waste your own time with that kind of stupidity. It took that person 45 minutes to do all those bad submissions. It took me 5 minutes to delete them all. Hmmm.
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…I owe you nothing. If for any reason I don’t like your site or your link, in two clicks your submission is vaporized into e-Blivion! I love that part. And whining about “why didn’t I get accepted, waaa” – doesn’t help. Maybe if you read the rules you would have a better chance… wow! Genius!
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Approved – 5
Rejected – 84
Good people, fear not! This is reflection of the spamy SEOs who can’t play it straight, no matter what. Good sites, who’s links follow the rules here, you will be accepted!
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Cleverly including your desired key phrases within your description may work — if done right. The key word here is ‘cleverly’! (like that pun) Listing a boat-load of repetitive crap that only means something to you– is spam, and it gets you rejected instantly. I won’t edit it and I certainly won’t even look at your site. I scan the queue for this trash and poof… your link is gone in an instant. So, try and follow the rules please.
Later.
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Although this is a reasonable standard in the web directory business, and those who regularly submit links to directories should know, I am finding folks just submitting their links to whatever category, regardless of the relevance. For example, lately I have had dozens of SEO, Web Design and Web Hosting sites applying in “Computers” category. Seems reasonable, right? Not really… when there is a more detailed “Web Services” category with sub categories that are directly related to those businesses.
Sometimes one might choose a category that is close, but I decide there is a better one, or that I will create a new sub category to accommodate that new link. Why bother? Because, subject relevance matters to search engines and people. Some will try to submit to the TOP category and ignore the much more germane sub-category thinking that if they are on a page closer to the “top” or home page, it will do better for them. This simply is not true. Relevance and closely related topic or subject is far more important to people using the directory, and to search engines indexing it.
When editing these submissions having to go in and change the category slows down the process significantly when dealing with 30 -50 links per day. Having the wrong category selected when there was an obviously better choice is one strike against the link. If, while processing the submission, I find more problems, like bad spelling, improper capitalization, wordy description, ugly site… it gets rejected out of hand. I will often edit and update one item in the submission like the description, or the title, or the category. I really don’t like to edit all of them. So as I scan the queue I see non-capitalized titles or crappy descriptions, and the category is wrong… that site is rejected without even looking at the site itself. I have to streamline my process and let the people submit more QUALITY. That way I can get more done.
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