Adding Links in Directories
After the holiday season, it is back to the nose at the grinding wheel again…
One look at the number of submissions waiting at the Targetwoman women directory made me cringe at the prospect of wading through literally thousands of them. We have a few volunteer editors who patiently look up the sites in the submitted list and check out whether they are appropriate for inclusion.
Now a bit of statistics is in tune with the subject we are discussing. We have over the past couple of years built up around 6000 links under 10 broad categories and 46 sub categories. This - you would say is paltry addition compared to some of the other directories which add just about the same in about a month.
We have always maintained that we are not looking at the numbers here in our directory. Our ratio of acceptance to submission is about 1:75
Many send us some very complimentary messages ( and not so complimentary messages as well) through the submission form. I reproduce below some of the subject lines here:
“Very informative and well designed website.”
“Your site was very helpful to me. Thank you. ”
“May God Bless you for the excellent information you offer in your pages ! ”
“Really enjoyed your site. I’ve bookmarked it for future reference. ”
“Your site is very convenient in navigation and has good design ”
Thank you all for the bouquets ( and also for the well intentioned bricks).
I spent almost about 3 hours just to filter out the spam from the list and mark the categories to forward them to appropriate editors. It is not such a pleasant experience for the Volunteer editors to go through grotesquely mangled submissions and as a result, the onus falls on me to sort the list.
Until we come up with a better technological solution to this, the editors or someone has to manually sort the large volume of submissions.