It is frustrating to see all the crap MFA sites that get submitted to directories, however it is even worst when you receive sites that are listable but the category, title, description and keywords are all wrong because the submitter didn’t bother to read the Guidelines. I can understand the motives of people trying to get backlinks for their MFA sites but I can’t understand why people that have listable sites don’t add a proper title and description, I guess they don’t care enough to read the guidelines. I did a bit of an experiment where I submitted one of my not so quality sites to about 250 directories, for this site I would be happy with a 30-40% acceptance rate. However I used a proper title and description and I managed to get about 80% acceptance rate.
Now here are a few common mistakes when adding a title for a directory submission taken from examples in my current review Que (Things that you shouldn’t do)
Here is an example of a site trying to target multiple keywords in the title and thinks that I might actually approve it (specific keywords were removed)
Service 1 Location 1, Service 2, Service 3, Service 4, Service 5, Location 2
They don’t even mention the title of the site or even try to spam me with just one keyword they are going after at least five keywords and guess what, they have just lost a link and I guess if this is their standard practice many more in other directories (the site is not bad btw)
Here is an example of what I call an advert title:
Submit Your URL Here
What does that tell you as a title, great huh? and no it’s not the domain or the name of the site that is obviously a directory (tragic) and for Christ’s shake it’s not a term with an overture or something.
Of course there are always the separated multiple keyword titles like keyword 1 / keyword 2 / keyword 3 / Site name(the site name is optional :))
Yes those are great, why? because I don’t even have to visit the site to reject it, thanks for saving my time.
Another great practice is the “Category Title” where they submit for example in the web design category and the use as a title for their site “Web Design“. Imagine having a directory page with 50 sites titled web design 
you may get some decent rankings for the term unless SEs penalize you for keyword stuffing.
To be continued…… (too many mojitos to go on now)
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