Updates of the directory
11/09/2006 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Since I received about 10 000 submissions these days, I decided to improve my free directory. At first, I’am about to add 3-rd level categories, since it will offer more quality for sites included within. Of course, all existing websites will be kept and we will re-visit them. Websites which offer poor content will be deleted. On the other hand, in past, I approved quality sites only. I am not doing what some webmasters do, since I want to give you quality listings. Basically, every website will be moved to appropriate 3-rd level category. There is one big advantage of such change; Websites will be listed properly with similar sites, what will improve the link power. Since my directory is Google, MSN and Yahoo friendly, such change will not harm any listing. Please, be patient until I add every 3-rd level category. This process might take up to 1-2 weeks and I’ll spend another 2-3 weeks moving the websites into the most appropriate categories.
I also improved the submission process. There were more than 10 000 submissions, but I approved only about 650 of them. This fact has a simple background; People didn’t follow the submission guidelines. What’s more, I had to update some submissions, since they didn’t meet the criteria. Basically, there were about 200 proper submissions only. Unlike automated approval, I am visiting each submitted website and it’s very crazy to open MFA websites, sites which don’t offer any content, or some affiliate sites.
I like e-shops, I like large informational sites, I also like personal sites and moreover, I like deep links too. If a site is of good quality, I am proud to link to such website. That’s why I am improving the directory and that’s why I am about to improve it later too. Here below are the latest improvements:
- 1) Turned-on the math verification. This helps us to avoid automated submissions.
- 2) „Title protector“. I am not accepting uppercased titles anymore. The submission engine will inform you about wrongly typed title.
- 3) „Description protector“. Since people tend to submit their websites or pages without any good-looking description, I also turned-on the verification algorithm for this input too.
- 4) „Keywords protector“. I don’t like uppercased letters at all, so why to not use it for keywords?
- 5) Maximum and minimum words count was turned-on too. It applies to all inputs but URL.
- 6) „Repeating words“ verification was also turned-on. Anyone isn’t able to repeat the same word too many times. There are some exact rules for each input.
As soon as I finish categories update, I will start working on another update. It will mean switching to the search engine. The engine will crawl each website on a regular basis and they will be ranked depending on some factors. Top websites will get their permanent links from pages here for free. Such links simply mean „I support“ links.
I hope that you like my goals as well as my present directory. As I am getting more inbound links to my site, this site’s importance within search engines raises. I claim that my directory will be free of cost forever. If you like my principles and goals, simply link to this site. I’ll be very glad of it.