Auto-submissions to human-edited directories

One thing you’ll see is people attempting to do is mass submit to human-edited directories. This strategy is not a good idea. Here’s why: the “human-edited” part means that humans have to spend time reviewing your website. If you mass submit to 1,000 web directories edited by humans, that means you’ll have 1,000 people putting in manhours to review your website. “Ahh, that was easy, you think to yourself. I only had to submit one form one time and all these poor suckers can work”. Wrong! What actually happens is, your submission is automatically dropped.

The primary way of dealing with web automation is to institute automated processes yourself. If you get a spam problem because of submission policies, you need to automate the solution, or you’ll be spending the greater part of your days fighting an enemy whose operating on auto-pilot.

Open queues on the internet accumulate a HECK of a LOT of crap submissions. To sort through them by hand would be insane. If you deal with them programatically and automatically, you’ve reached a reasonable conclusion that should help your approval rate go up substantially.

As to “companies” that promise auto-submissions to directories, take them with a grain of salt. No one has ever approached this Web Directory with a “partnership proposal” about doing business together, so their auto submissions are filed in the dustbin with the rest. Here’s a few tips that help you get accepted into web directories:

• Write a non-spammy Title
• Do not attempt to “stuff keywords”
• Visit the actual directories you want to submit and put in a custom description and title. It’s better practice for SEO anyways
• Read the submission policies

Following these simple guidelines should help your approval rate go up.