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[Debra]

Stopped by goguides.com and noticed they are off line..... wonder if someone bought them!

Also, when I went to submit a site to skaffe.com, I see they don't have a *free* submit option - or do they? At the bottom of the page is this in big, bold, blue letters:
Free submit will randomly appear for 4 hours in every 24.

Interesting.

[qwerty]

The trick with Skaffe is to bookmark the submit page for your category and then go back to it every couple of hours until you get the freebie. I used it a few days ago, and got through on about the fifth try, and got my site listed in two days. So if you've got time to pop in now and then it's worth it

I just went to GoGuides a minute ago, and the site is up.

[Debra]

LOL, sounds like a lot of work! Thanks Bob.

[Scottie]

I'm not sure you should make a game out of free site submit... sure you get people to come back a lot, but why?

[qwerty]

I think it's just to control the number of submissions. If you have to go to even a little trouble to submit a site, you're less likely to submit one you don't really care about.

[Scottie]

Makes sense... somewhat.

The spammers won't care! :tooth:

[mcanerin]

Perhaps it nerfs a lot of "auto-submissions"...

If it's effective, great! If not, then you'd end up with Auto submissions every hour - ouch. It would probably work as long as they were the only ones doing it.

Ian

[Scottie]

OK- that makes sense to me.

< nerfs... love it! >

[SearchRank]

I don't know if they were bought or not but I can no longer log in as an editor and they do not respond to emails. They were rebuiding the directory and then at some point everything that was formerly in the directory was back, like they were able to find a copy of the database or something. Then they put it up for sale and locked out us editors (or so it seems).

Are there any other editors who cannot currently log in?

[Jill]

Uh oh...someone bought Debra's xmas present before I had a chance to buy it for her?

[OldWelshGuy]

well at $10,000 it was a snip...

[Randy]

ermmm...but wasn't the 10k figure only the minimum bid OWG or what you had to pay to even put in a bid? That's what I seem to remember reading on their site a couple of weeks back. I hope I read that right, because if I'd thought all of the database, etc could have been had for that cheap I'd have certainly bellied up to the bar just to have something new to play with.

[SearchRank]

ermmm...but wasn't the 10k figure only the minimum bid...

Yes $10k was the minimum bid. Haven't heard if they sold it or not. One dumb thing they did IMO is to completely reorganize the directory with all new URLs so that all the categories that used to have a good PR value and as such provide a valuable link to anyone listed there, now have a 0/10 PR value. So in essence they are starting over. seems to me it would have been more attractive to buyers if they would have left the directory structure the same?!?!?

It is also extremely slow now, like it is being hosted on someone's home server or something. When you conduct a search, might as well go get a cup of coffee, go to the bathroom, read the funnies and then come back and hope your search is completed. I feel sorry for anyone with a dial up trying to search there.

[Jill]

Minimum bid was $10k. I was thinking of offering no more than $2k and I don't even think it was worth that much, personally. The only worthwhile thing is that they have a bit of branding built up with the domain. Would be better if it were .com, though, imo.

Wonder if someone did buy it, and for how much.

Jill

[Randy]

Haven't heard one way or the other yet on the sale. I'm sure it'll all come out eventually.

If I were the buyer my main concern would be the legal side of the database/back end ownership. The recent separation would have me quite nervous about that, no matter what the cost.

Jill, you can probably buy the .com if you want. Looks like someone is squatting on that one. I bet they'd sell it.