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Most Blog Directories these days are giving a bad name to the industry through several methods. Some directories force bloggers to link back to them, yet never approve or reject their blogs, thus giving the directory owner a free backlink from bloggers who do not pay attention. Other directory owners are approving any and every blog, regardless of splogs, porno blogs or copyright infringement blogs.
One popular directory has taken poor standards to a new low. It appears TopBlogArea.com is scamming bloggers into putting up a shady backlink to another drectory they own when bloggers ad their chicklet code. I confirmed the allegations myself by adding one of my blogs into their directory an this was the code they requested I put on my site :
| <!– TopBlogArea.com START –> <a href=”http://www.topblogarea.com/finance/” title=”Finance blogs”><img border=”0″ src=”http://www.topblogarea.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=xxxxx” alt=”Finance blogs”></a> <noscript><a href=”http://www.clysma.com/sports-and-recreation/”>sports and recreation Catalog</a></noscript><!– TopBlogArea.com END –> |
As you can see, TopBlogArea.com is using a JavaScript <noscript> tag to hide a link to clysma.com which is a low grade non-blog directory. This type of behaviour is repulsive and TopBlogArea.com administration shuld be ashamed of themselves for this type of scamming. If they’re willing to link to another directory from your site, who can say they woudn’t hide casino or pornography links the same as they are currently doing.
Word of advice to bloggers : Don’t bother using TopBlogArea.com and if you are already linking to them, be certain to check your code and make sure they’re not cheating you for backlinks to someplace you don’t approve of.
BlogRateDirectory is a human edited blog directory and we are now in the process of editing and removing splog (spam blog) and junk blog listings from our directory to keep our listings the highest quality possible. If you have seen the following image displayed on your blog in place of the BlogRateDirectory chicklet…
…please remove the code asap and please do not link to our directory.
If your blog has been rejected, before you begin to write your Congressman or before you launch an email rebuttal to our editors demanding an explaination as to why your blog was removed, please read the following criteria and ask yourself if your blog really deserves to be rejected.
What is a blog ?
A blog is a weblog, sort of a personal diary or journal which includes *writing* from an author or a group of authors.
1.) If your blog is nothing but pictures of celebrities, cars, soccer players with little or no written content, you’re blog is rejected.
2.) If your blog is nothing but links to rapidshare or other downloads, your blog is rejected.
3.) If you type your blog’s url into http://www.copyscape.com and more than 10 results come back, you’re stealing content and your blog is rejected.
Up until this week, all new entries into the directory were edited by software which looked for certain keywords to reject blogs automatically. As of this week, we now have built a professional blog review software to allow our editors to hand edit each and every blog that is submitted. Thanks to all the sploggers and spammers for lighting a fire under our programming staff to getthis done.
If you see previously listed blogs that violate the TOS still in the directory, we are working through over 4000 entries one by one, so instead of crying about “why was my free wallpaper blog rejected but there’s other free wallpaper blogs in the directory”, we have setup the following thread to report blogs that violate the TOS :
http://forum.blogratedirectory.com/index.php?topic=34.0
That being said, we’d like to thank all the legit, hard-working bloggers who have submitted their quality blogs and made BlogRateDirectory one of the best blog directories on the internet.
We’ve been receiving quite a few emails from bloggers concerning their blogs being removed from the directory. While we understand the frustration of these bloggers, the one thing we will never understand is why people who refuse to follow rules and/or guidelines and attempt to cheat the system are often the biggest crybabies when things don’t go their way.
It’s clearly stated in the BlogRateDirectory Guidelines that “Photoblogs” are not permitted. The reason why we do not allow blogs such as “Sexy Asian Girls” that contains no content except pictures copied from somewhere else and with no content except the photos is because we believe blogging is about creating original content, not stealing content and claiming it as your own to attempt to make money from it. Additionally, the vast majority of these blogs get a higher number of hits than legitimate blogs that people work hard to produce and it’s not fair that people who just click and copy and image and paste it into their blog should deserve credit in the blogosphere.
In case anybody has any doubt, here are the Guidelines all bloggers have agreed to when they submitted their blogs :
Please Note: We do not accept blogs containing the following content:
Considering the fact that BlogRateDirectory is operating virtually non-profit and our operating costs are far more than we make from the affiliate ads we circulate on the site, it is quite annoying to have to answer somebody why their blog was deleted from the directory when they didn’t even bother to read the guidelines before submitting it.
If you’re a blogger and you’re serious about establishing and promoting your blog on the internet, one of the most essential services available to you is Technorati. Technorati is possibly the biggest name in the blogosphere and getting your articles tagged for Technorati and published is a sure-fire way to increase your readership.
Welcome to the BlogRateDirectory updates blog. We’ve launched this blog as a method to keep contact with our community members and notify members of updates, enhancements and changes to our directory.
We’d like to than the over 1200+ bloggers who have submitted their blogs to our directory thus far and made BlogRateDirectory one of the most successful blog services on the internet.
We have a lot of great new features coming up in the near future so please remember to check this blog or subscribe to our RSS feed to keep updated on everything that’s going on.
