Directory Submitter’s Ten Commandments from The Pagerank God

October 9th, 2006

On directory forums and other professional discussion forums, it’s more and more being talked about low-cost bulk directory submission services that are ruining the directory owner’s joy from running their pet projects (a.k.a. directories), by submitting hundreds and hundreds of bottom quality websites, and generally doing rather poor job with submissions for their clients.

Thus The Pagerank God came forth and ruled, “though shall be your ten commandments from now on”:

  1. Thou shalt not ignore each directory’s rules.
  2. Thou shalt not put your interests before your client’s.
  3. Thou shalt not use autosubmitters.
  4. Thou shalt not promise unrealistic acceptance rates, and generally misguide the client, just to get the job.
  5. Thou shalt not use one email address for all your clients jobs.
  6. Thou shalt not accept clients with junk websites.
  7. Thou shalt not submit to top categories, when relevant subcategories are available.
  8. Ask your clients to ammend their websites, description and titles, whenever you think it is appropriate.
  9. Honour the directory list you use.
  10. Do not worship the Pagerank God.
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Hey….you see that Pagerank God is a tough guy, but has some sense of humour at least :) . What? Nah, that’s not me, I just helped him transcribe for us earthlings (either telepathy or sql injection vulnerability in my brain’s operation system, not sure what it was). And no, I don’t worship him (I’m almost certain it’s him, not her).
That’s what happens to those who worship the directory devil. It has something to do with the Holy Hand Grenade, hehe.

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Posted by Tomas Filed in directories, seo

4 Responses to “Directory Submitter’s Ten Commandments from The Pagerank God”

  1. Nick Says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    It is so funny.

    Pagerank is the most worthless thing for a website, and people is going like crazy for it :)

    BTW did you know that directory submittions don’t really help with it?

  2. Tomas Says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 4:24 pm

    Hehe…that’s my thinking :)

    As for the submissions not helping with pagerank… I can’t really say. Last I submitted my own websites, must have been a year ago or so, it helped, I had one that got PR4 just from submissions. Since that, though, things might have changed, I don’t know, though it would suprise me a bit. What i think matters, is to which categories and which directories you submit. Most are badly indexed though link from that is really of little value. And which categories - some are completely empty, and in some (insurance, real estate,….), if you go on page XX of that category, it’s again worthless for pagerank and backlink thing.

  3. Mike Says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 1:51 am

    11. Thou shalt not mention the greatest of the greatest Gods name G–gle without a good reason :D

  4. Tomas Says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 8:34 am

    ….good one ;)

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