Got their email saying ‘they are cleaning up‘ their stickys, that doesn’t help the spam they get on the forum. What I fail to understand is why the spammers even bother to post there, the board doesn’t even give dofollow links in signature (though most dofollow forum lists incorrect has SitePoint).

I have tried many forums apart from DigitalPoing and I am still looking for a good one where real people have real discussions.

What I had not noticed earlier and only noticed when I started writing the review is that the directory also allows free article submissions. It’s not common for eSyndicat directories to offer a ‘working’ article directory.

eSyndicat script owners and directory owners probably missed the memo when Matt Cutts wrote about how Google has ‘changed’ the interpretation of ‘nofollow’ attribute. The submit link and other internal pages still have nofollow attribute on them.

The directory 1318 listings (as of today) in business section but only 137 in financial services and 287 in Arts category, I guess they should go out of their way to fill these categories to make the directory more useful.

Overall, I would recommend website owners to submit their sites to this free web directory.

Seen a few great discussions about the above on a few forums, and just now, read a super post on a blog. The blog is by the owner of the phplink bid script, so he has a lot of weight when he does speak out. I would suggest you read his blog post prior to doing any more business with any bid directory, just to maybe save you some time, grief and more importantly money.

I am going to just put one or two paragraphs from his blog here, then a link to the entire post.

How do you know which bid directories to trust? Should you really bid on that brand new PR 8 directory? These are important questions when you’re submitting to a bid directory. This guide shows you how to spot the signs of a bogus bid directory, and explains how directory owners can build trust with their users.

Fake bids are the nastiest scam around. The great appeal of link bid directories is that an advertiser can control their position with their investment. When bid directory owners falsify bids on their own directory, they are greatly misleading advertisers.

Now go to the blog and read the entire post. Very eye-opening and will give you a bit of knowledge when it comes to bid directories. Read it here:

Bid Directories

Now that you have your article ready to go, what to do with it? Simple thing again, you submit it to article directories. Like this nice article directory, Digital Ezines, that is ready for your article. You do have to register at this article directory, but it is fast and free to do so. Once your article is submitted, and approved, your exposure starts with having your article on the main page and on the latest articles page. Now hurry up and get some articles for your websites and submit them to this nice article directory.