I must start this post by admitting that I once was a fan of automatic approval directories.  I even recommended some.  I like the instant feedback and the instant link.  There were some that did a good job of eliminating the spam submissions (or maybe there was less back then) and would go through the listings often enough to get rid of the ones that didn’t below.  Of course that was in the day when everyone was in a race to get as many links as they could, as fast as they could.

As we approach 2011 things are much different.  Google’s is now extremely good at what it does.  They have a wide range of ways to identify good and bad links.   So what do I see happening in the directory industry.  The opposite. Some people are creating automatic approval sites that are part of large networks of identical directories.

What you have is:

1. A large network of directories are hosted on the same IP  =  CRAP
2. The directories are clones of each other and have no original content  = CRAP
3. The directories all sites submitted – no moderation   =  CRAP

The result is an exponentially crappy directory – CRAP to the power of 3

Say no to Crap.