redhex.hedir

There is currently quite a fair bit of activities going on. OpenDB of hedir listings. Release of FF extension. And other discussion to name a few. All is moving towards a positive direction.

I had looked that the review center (one of the BEST tool in hedir) and I did notice a trend. The participantion in hedir in terms of submission, had been mostly done for the sake of getting a back link and hopful to be indexed by search engines. Nothing wrong with that. There are few who submitted, hanged around to brave the reviewers’ comments and even fewer who acted on the comments to sincerely get their site listed. And from these few, comes the god-given active reviewers who form the current core of the hedir community.

From what I see, going at this rate, the community will grow very slowly. The audience that comes to hedir does not fit the bill most of the time. A backlink is all they ask for. A community must have something that draws them back. For me, at the very start of my hedir experience, I was very impressed by the different type of website submitted. Of all size and shape, in all colors you can name, different themes of the many CMS and blogs you can find. Stretching across a great number of industries and social spectrum. For profit and non-profit. I will relate that to a mini virtual United Nations.

After time, spam and bad submission crept into the picture and starts to take the toll on reviewing. Looking at one bad submission after another one simply does not make up a good reviewing experience. For once, I started asking myself where are all the good sites? Why are they not submitted to hedir?

Then I pondered and decided that a fundatmental change in mindset is needed. Simple and elegant. Norah did it once with the submission of phparch.com . As most could had guessed by now, the solution is to perform social submission.

Social Submission: To submit sites that reviewers themselves find to be useful and of hedir-quality. This increase the listing in hedir and at the same time, improve the reviewing experience in the community.

There are two ways to do it:

Method one: Submit the site physically yourself. Placing a note stating that it is a social submission and you cannot perform any changes to the site.

Method two: (Recommended) Drop an email to the website webmaster and request him to do a submission to hedir. He/she will have control over the comments and changes. At the same time, hedir.com gets more exposure.

It is like a pay it forward action. You perform the act because the benefits it brings is more that the effort needed to perform that act. It makes a better reviewing experience for the community with a quality site. I always enjoy it when a good site with interesting content is submitted.

Making the web a better place, one review at a time.

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