What are People Thinking?
I run some Web directories and I am constantly amazed at what crappy sites people submit. Usually they are some type of AdSense templated site with little to no value or some affiliate program with a URL like www.affiliate_program_name.com/x123hh67. Sometimes they are placeholders without an actual site yet or they are someone's blog which has not been updated since 2005 and only contains one entry. I wonder if these submitters actually think that I would ever consider approving their sites? It must be like spam, if you submit to enough directories (usually free ones) some of them will probably overlook it and you will get accepted (I suspect this usually happens with the newer directory owners who have not seen thousands of these sites before - I once fell for them too, early on as I was just excited anyone wanted to submit to my little directory). I wish these sites would all go away as they are a complete waste of time for me and serve no purpose but to get a cheap, misleading buck off some unsuspecting Web surfer while clogging up search engine results.
This is just my little soapbox rant as I am reviewing the thousands of sites waiting for approval in one of my free directories and realizing that almost 95% of them are just crap!
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