Submission status on InsuranceQuotesExpress.com

hutcheson

Curlie Meta
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Mar 23, 2002
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Not eligible for listing.

The reason is a flavor of "insufficient unique content" (well, rejection is basically ALWAYS for some flavor of "IUC".) This form is a little more subtle than most (and we get a LOT of sites like this submitted), so I'll try to explain so as to perhaps dissuade the next spammer.

We call this a "lead generator" site. Its purpose is not to give out information, but to collect information: in the quest to illuminate the universe this is not a candle but a black hole. We only list websites that GIVE information (for, of course, a rather broad but not all-inclusive definition of "information".) So it's obvious that this site is no more worth listing than a blank page or 404 error code -- it gives the same amount of information.

If we were to consider listing these sites (which, as I say, we won't) then we'd have to consider which ones to list: and there is no way of looking at a site to tell that. This fact is what led us to realize we shouldn't be listing such sites at all.

But we took a long time to figure that out, and I personally feel a little bit stupid for taking so long to notice such an obvious and critical fact. (As a partial excuse, I can only say that the submitters of this kind of site as a class included the most viciously _deceitful_ submitters I have ever dealt with.)

Summary: lead generator site == instant rejection with the most extreme prejudice conceivable.

I should also mention that this is not a reflection on the legitimacy of the company or the morality of the webmaster -- whatever our experience leads us to presuppose about those, we know that some legitimate companies have created such sites. It is simply based on the nature of the website.
 

mrdon

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Jun 18, 2004
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Hi hutcheson,

Thanks for your reply. I don't want to be tagged as a spammer, though I understand why my type of site is seen as such, since there are a large number of sites similar to mine that do take that approach. I actually had no idea that my type of site was not eligable for a listing, as I have seen several sites similar to ours listed:

www.4freequotes.com
www.MostChoice.com
www.NetQuote.com

These were jaust a few of the many that I found. Is the reason that these sites are listed because of some additional content that they have? The reason I ask is that, we are currently building content for our site that provides information specific to each type of personal insurance for every state in the US, with helpful links to government agencies and organizations

Here are a few that we have just completed but have yet to add the links on our main pages as of yet:

http://www.insurancequotesexpress.com/florida-health-insurance.php
http://www.insurancequotesexpress.com/california-motorcycle-insurance.php

Would unique content like this help get the site listed?

Thanks again for your reply,
Brandon
 
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