No matter what other say, and no matter how old fashioned it may seem, I still have a penchant for human edited directories and similar services like the San Diego yellow pages, Wikipedia, and Open-Site.
Although there are some biased factors when humans do the editing, and it generally may take time to get something listed, there are a lot of things that humans can judge which even a high tech algorithm are not capable of doing. In fact, ceteris paribus (all things held constant), human editors can be more reliable in pinpointing which sites are doing black hat SEO from the ones doing white hat. Then again, nothing is perfect. Human editors may miss a black hat technique of a highly expert black hat SEO.
Consequently, the best solution to have a better directory listing is to have a combination of automated and human-edited listing. What do you think?
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