For most of us, it can be very stressful to see the new PR of our sites, especially since PR Update happens when we think the less of it, anyway we can’t change our pagerank but we can get backlinks.

[ PR Datacenters Check Tool – Use it if you want to understand what i mean below ]

The Directories that Lost PR:
– Site-Site.com Was PR7 and now is a PR6

– Uncoverthenet.com was PR8 and now is PR6! Thats some huge drop, i bought lots of links there, and their UTN Directory was PR6 and is PR5!!
The reason why they lost PR is that may be because they were on the Supporter PR9 W3 Page. You’ve to pay 1000$/year to become a supporter and you must have a legit business in order to do it, then your link will appear on that PR9 page. Google punished those sites lol.

– BayEngine.com is PR3 and was PR4. Seems like even if his template brought him 23,900 links [ Submit Express ]. So google is punishing those sites having tons of sitewides… Sitewides might be dangerous in the near future.

– DMOZ and Yahoo! are PR8. Thats definitely a change in the directories world, those 2 big monsters lost a point! They had 9/10 for a long time.

– Skaffe was a PR6 and now is a PR5, so what the heck is going on their again? Its all changing now

– WOW Directory was PR5 and now is a PR6, good improvements.

– Categorized Web was PR5 and now is PR0, just like Linkwith.us who was PR6 and now is PR0.

If you guys find some very different PR for directories please post them here,
Cheers! << We're all fine. No problems so far lol

Even if the sites they submitted are their sites, they seem to do not give a hell about their submissions. Most of the submissions received are reviewed, and for most of them we have to correct the category the websites was submitted to, its title, its description, check if there are no DOUBLE submissions, and so on so forth.
This is very annoying, and i will change my policy regarding web submitters, this week-end i’m going to create a new guideline, and i’ll try to populate it as much as possible on the web because this is enough.

Whats the point?
We all need backlinks and its a fact, when people go having dinner to a restaurant, they don’t spit right in the waiter’s face nor throw up in the soup pot, they are polite and ask nicely what there is on the menu and they even often order a bottle of wine!
So why on the internet webmasters are (like we’ve all been at school), pissing 2 cms near the toilet? My toilet must stay clean, i don’t know about yours.

We Know
We know that submitting to a directory is long, especially if you have dozens or a hundreds of websites to submit (i’m not sure they get all accepted if you got that amount.), we all loose our time submitting, this is the propaganda.
To help you (submitter dude), some webmasters created those automated submissions softwares, and others offer directories submissions services who i do not blame, some of them takes time into submitting each websites to the proper category (Inetseo), others claims they will MANUALLY submit the website you want to submit, and they’ll use a directory submissions softwares!
I say NO. STOP using submissions softwares, first of all, the submissions software doesn’t THINK, how many categories there is in a directory? 300 > 2500, in the kind of directories that got 2500 categories, there is a high probability that the category you’re looking for is a sub cat, the submissions softwares will choose a parent category and not a sub cat, which means we again have to review the submission! Loosing our time again.

We know also that now web directories business is over saturated, there are way too much directories on the internet, and this is not a QUEST that you have to submit to all of them, oh guy, wake up! Submit only to the quality directories, not the crap directories made by the “Quick Buck Crew”. For instance, our web directories are quality directories, we’re editors that cares about quality content and we’re extremly careful for the selections of websites so you got to submit to directories like those:

LinkWith.us
Octopedia
Site-Sift
Alive Directory
Port Prophecy
Aviva Directory
WOW Directory
V7n Directory
No Dangers
The Squat
Red Pines
Webmasters Cavern – Webmaster Niche

Most Of them are PAID web directories, but those are the best! For the best there is a cost, and thats how we do it. For the free web directories, here are the best:

ODP
Abilogic
Jayde
Irka Web Directory
Skaffe
World Site Index

And a lot and lot more. There are just so many free web directories list out there, you probably know which one is trustable more than the other.

Directories Owners Shout Out
Now the submitters find a way to loose time submitting manually, using softwares, its us directories owners that pay the price. Personally, i hate reviewing free links, especially when the submitters say on the forums “Please Accept :)”, or send me PM “I’ve submitted my crap can you accept it?”, or even on Y!Messenger! It’s amazing! They’re dreaming! I don’t even want to talk about the quality of the sites submitted by those guys…

Conclusion
A new directory guideline will be set regarding the definition of SEO Friendly Directory set by Dan from Vilesilencer and regarding also the needs of a web directory owner, how can submitters and directories owners can co-exist with each other relates to science fiction but i feel its possible to find a way out of it.

The title is a bit rude,

For those that doesn’t own a web directory, there are stuffs i’ve to tell you about, just to make you understand in what mess most of the directories owners on the web are.

We have a guideline for each of our web directories, PEOPLE are blind and do not read it. Results? Crap submissions, most of them are deleted.
Most of them? Holy hell yeah, 80% of them.

Common Problems Encountered When Reviewing Websites:

1/ SPAM, IWD is subject to spam more than the others, and i dont know why.

This screenshot is an example of spam, obviously those sites doesnt have the purpose to entertain, inform, teach visitors, but to get money. Most of the domain names like www.super-duper-penis-enlargment-pills.co.uk are removed without needing checking its content, its obvious the site is a total crap.

2/ Guys submitting to the TOP, some people, by mistake or voluntarily submit to the top of the web directory, which means they do not even choose one category to submit their websites to. Its annoying because sometimes the websites submitted to the TOP are good content site and its finally our job to list and find the proper category for it, it wastes our time!

3/ No sex websites and site that promotes hatred and violence, None seems to care about it and keep submit that kind of websites instantly removed as well as the others. They loose their time submitting even if they use a software to do that.

Example of sex sites;):

4/ Damn Titles, the site submission is ok, the description too, but the title is all messed up, it happens many times like:

Very Bad Title;):

5/ Wackos Dreaming, Some guys try to sneak in and submit their websites putting their Forum’s nickname in the name field during their submissions, if the site is crap, then i know who is the spammer on the forum, good thing for me, bad for the guy! But why did he submitted it anyway? Is there a hope that i would recognize him and accept it just because its him?

Look at that its awesome:

And more and more, if i find some funny ones, i’ll keep posting them here 😀
We’ve to fight against spam!

Hey Folks,

Here it comes! Yeah yeah yeah, another one! TheSquat.org – Yep its a funny name!
So here are the stuffs: Thesquat is a free & paid web directory. Let me explain, there will be some periods when it’ll be free, and others when it’ll be paid. I expect to keep thesquat free until Xmas, it doesn’t mean at all you’ve 3 months to submit your website.
No, its a little bit like Nodangers.com, nodangers is a free directory for now, then in october it’ll be a paid directory again, then some months later it’ll become free again, and so on so forth! Both Nodangers.com and Thesquat.org (our favorites) will alternate free and paid, when nodangers will be paid, thesquat will be free and reciprocally.

I am an “old” (i’m still) submitter to directory, i do spend a bit on my web directories promotion (have better plans but) but i believe in an internet free. I will try my best to keep at least 2 to 3 web directories free in my whole network every months, some will obviously alternate from free to paid.

There is another example of directory that we own: IWD – You will never see this directory as a paid one, let me tell you why, because this directory got more than 2500 categories, because of its layout, the philosophy we got when we built it, it’ll never be a paid for inclusion directory.
Its a free resource for the web and it’ll be like that until the irka network dies!

TheSquat.org Introduction!

This is our radioactive web directory ;), the main colors are yellow, green then blue.
Yellow because of the nuclear sign (black and Yellow), also its a bit changing to have a yellow layout, some of you guys love yellow!
Green, because of the dead freak that eat burgers and gives some wet kisses in ghostbusters movie, that dude always seemed a bit radioactive (because of its green, and its texture > Looks like an english jelly cake).
And blue because blue is french and MY favorite color.

+ The name the squat, it was a funny idea. We made some little research of domain names such as:
– blackhole.ws < Lol, i love the picture. - fastlinks.eu, .org, .net < Why not? - getinside.eu, .org < That was my first idea - indelebilelinks.com < Meaning is of the directory is perfect - indelebile.net < For its meaning, it was good - knick-knack.org < The way to say it seemed pretty cool - kosherdirectory.eu < LOL There are no copyrights, you can suscribe those domain names if you want, we're done doing general web directories, now our focus are on niche directories 🙂 Also, there will be no sitewides sales on Thesquat.org, just like Isamu and IWD.
The featured are set to $15/unlimited.
This ain’t a reciprocal directory < Hates reciprocals, makes my head hurt and consumes lots of precious hours of work. Conclusion

Comrads, my friends, i invite you to submit your website on all the directories of our network and the newer amongst them.
Enjoy submitting, at least try!

First stage done, IWD got 1250 sites listed yesterday night, i’d like to thank the webmasters who submitted some very good content sites, they took time doing it and their trust about Irkawebdirectory is deeply appreciated 🙂

Let us reach the 10,000 for January 2007 and you’ll get another DMOZ Directory where most of the serious webmasters out there are sure to get in,

Irka web directory has more than 2500 categories, a good ratio is to have 5 sites listed per categories, so do some math, and you’ll see that we are far away from the perfect directory! But step by step we’re making our way. Also IWD will be free and forever free.

Nodangers reached the 1000 listings for his 700 categories! We decided to switch it to free during whole september, right now there are 250 sites we have to review for inclusion, we think by the end of september we’ll reach then 1300-1400 listings for that directory,

Cheers y’all :p

Hiya people,

its sunday and i’m working on the updates of those directories, well since the internet connection in Vietnam is extremly slow (1 hour to check 30 links, 15 minutes to receive my mail, 15 seconds to load a page on the web), it might take a while before all my directories are up to the v3.0.6. Why do i waste my time in updating them? The answer is easy, the new version of phpld have the ability to remove, accept or inactive the links received and awaiting submissions in MASS, means that instead of deleting or approving the links one by one, i will be able to do that in mass, i’ll open the links check page with 100 links then i’ll delete all the spam and i’ll take time reviewing the good links.

Irkawebdirectory is subject to spam from india, eastern europe and america, it makes me so angry to check 50 links and not approving anyone of them.

With that new phpld mod, I will not waste my time anymore (while i am waiting for a greater internet connection, it might be forever with the vietnamese).

I’ll also start to build another directory soon at the following address redisdead.eu, that directory will be the same as nodangers.com, it will have some free link submissions period but at the root its a paid directory. Obviously this one too will be in 3.0.6. I did not start the design for that directory yet, but i’ve time, its just the beginning of september, i’ve till october to finish all my current projects (the deadline) then i might create some more directories who knows (me ;D).
I was thinking of creating a phpld templates sites and let you guys have some of my design work for free for your own directories, this project will come after redisdead. I don’t know much on how i’ll do it but i might use wordpress for that, wordpress is huge! I love it!

In conclusion, avoid connecting like hell if you notice one of the directories isn’t working.