Just an idea :)

(oh, and you’d probably want to have a limit on number of sites per submitter)

Thanks again,

Ian

Many thanks, I’ve gone ahead and submitted a small informational (and non-commercial) site of mine.

It’s very kind you did this for me, but it would still be nice if you could offer non-commercial listings for others in a less roundabout fashion. Perhaps when they submit, ask them to click on ‘commercial’ or ‘non-commercial’ links, or something like that?

Again, thanks again for kindly offering to do this as a one-off.

Ian

ps: Perhaps you could handle non-commercial sites with volunteer editors? Although, of course, I know how this can turn out (DMOZ? eugh! :] )

If you have a quality, original content, non-commercial website, submit it using the standard URL, and skip the payment step..

Than e-mail the editors at the e-mail in the content page, and they’ll approve it.

Is this ok for you ? :)

PS: mention anywhere in the e-mail, SeoBuzzBox.

Thanks.

Seriously, good on ya. I do have one question though, having looked through your site a little further.

You’ve got categories for both white and black pride. There’s nothing in them yet from what I could see, but do you really want to be doing something like that? (Or is that part of the default skin of your dir)?

I found them here by accident:

http://www.webxperience.org/directory/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/

Doesn’t really make much difference to me personally, but it might be one of those things that makes your directory look bad.

1. In 2-3-4 days, an upgrade on the directory back-end will be done. Captcha will be included.

2. We already implemented a blacklist (based on certain occurances of words in title/description/url) as well as a ban list (frequent spammers are banned, by IP, e-mail, website) within the directory.

As a mod over at HEDir, we’re running into the same spam you are. It’s a complete pain in the ass.

So I made a pair of suggestions that I’m going to make to you:

1) Many of our site suggestions and comments are automated submissions. Chances are, the same thing’s going on with you. A CAPTCHA tool may be in order.

(Side note to Aaron: same thing might be in order to prevent carcasher spam.)

2) Force registration before submission if at all possible.

In other words, make people work for it and you’ll eliminate the spam without having to make it a paid directory (which is one of those concepts that IMHO defeats the purpose of natural linking).

Anyway, just some thoughts, dude. Hope they help. (If you like them, add my site. I can’t figure out where it’s supposed to go. Doesn’t seem to be a category for it. :) )

Adam

400 contacts and for some of them, I can’t get the number back.

Keep up the good work. This interview was better than being caught in rush-hour traffic in Bucharest, if you catch my drift :)

Anyway I appreciate those small things that you do, that make the reading a lot more funny :)