WebProNews Buys Magx Directory

britishguy

Jul 29th 2007, 8:21 pm

Breaking News in the Directory Market
Web Pro News
http://www.webpronews.com/
have just acquired
Magx Directory
http://www.magx.net/

This is just the news the Directory Market needed confirming that the Directory sector continues to go from strength to strength

Exciting news as big players continue to enter this strong, solid, expanding market place :cool:

SearchBuster

Jul 29th 2007, 8:29 pm

Thanks for news Pete, will be interesting to see what they do with it.

deluxdon

Jul 29th 2007, 8:31 pm

NeoGen

Jul 29th 2007, 8:36 pm

Wow! thats a news that iEntry, Inc. has acquired a web directory...

Do they own any other directory? Or is this their first foray into directory business?

jhnrang

Jul 29th 2007, 8:40 pm

Wow--thanks Pete for the news. It really is a great news for the industry -despite some fools dismissing directories as waste of money.:D

malcolm1

Jul 29th 2007, 9:03 pm

Im happy for him but was waiting to buy it myself.. :D

I know the links it had behind it as that directory was just as powerful
as Biz-king and Sleeks with several PR7s and tons of PR6 links..

How much did it go for?... Nevermind it dont matter i didnt get it .... lol

thx
malcolm

mystikmedia

Jul 29th 2007, 9:10 pm

Congrats Matt. I remember doing a large ezine advertising campaign with iEntry back in 2000 and 2001. Glad to see they're still doing well, and hope to see great things with the web directory too.

CReed

Jul 29th 2007, 10:20 pm

Do they own any other directory? Or is this their first foray into directory business?
Yes, they do own other directories:

jayde.com
allyourlink.com
webfeeds.info (looks famliar) check out the pending links -7K :eek:
i25hotlanes.com (another familiar template - SpringBreak)
whichforum.com
oyez.info (v2.1 w/linkback removed?)
tugf.com (v2.0 without link again?)

balkanboy

Jul 30th 2007, 12:33 am

Interesting news-thanks for letting us know.

Yes, they do own other directories:

jayde.com
allyourlink.com
webfeeds.info (looks famliar) check out the pending links -7K :eek:
i25hotlanes.com (another familiar template - SpringBreak)
whichforum.com
oyez.info (v2.1 w/linkback removed?)
tugf.com (v2.0 without link again?)

I wouldn't expect such a large company to remove links from templates. Last one www.tugf.com is using template under ownership of Aviva. If they didn't pay for link removal they are candidates for QBC site.

pipes

Jul 30th 2007, 4:05 am

Wow, thats excellent, where can i read more about it? or have they not written anything regarding the purchase.

mikey1090

Jul 30th 2007, 4:39 am

Thanks for the news Pete. How did you find out? Will be interesting to see what a big company can do with a paid directory:)

vicdigi

Jul 30th 2007, 6:28 am

That is truely amazing news. I think everyone will be watching to see what they do with it.

onlinedude

Jul 30th 2007, 6:35 am

Congrats Matt - that's fabjlous news!

I wouldn't expect such a large company to remove links from templates. Last one www.tugf.com is using template under ownership of Aviva. If they didn't pay for link removal they are candidates for QBC site.

No, they did not pay for this. Also, the template on whichforum.com looks like mine too and they did not pay for link removal :-( Very shocked that a big company would do this (also surprised that they don't just pay for custom templates).

coolsitez

Jul 30th 2007, 1:47 pm

Yes, they do own other directories:

jayde.com
allyourlink.com
webfeeds.info (looks famliar) check out the pending links -7K :eek:
i25hotlanes.com (another familiar template - SpringBreak)
whichforum.com
oyez.info (v2.1 w/linkback removed?)
tugf.com (v2.0 without link again?)

I think they own more. I can't recall others. I hope they don't remove links at Magx because I just bought few on it ;)

vegabond

Jul 30th 2007, 2:28 pm

Congrats Matt - that's fabjlous news!

No, they did not pay for this. Also, the template on whichforum.com looks like mine too and they did not pay for link removal :-( Very shocked that a big company would do this (also surprised that they don't just pay for custom templates).
I think Rich Ord have not noticed about template sponsor, he just takan the site by paying an amount!

just my 2c :)

MeetHere

Jul 30th 2007, 2:50 pm

Thats a good news that big companies are interested in directories too..

Congrats Mattevers.

Obelia

Jul 30th 2007, 3:15 pm

No, they did not pay for this. Also, the template on whichforum.com looks like mine too and they did not pay for link removal :-( Very shocked that a big company would do this (also surprised that they don't just pay for custom templates).
This suggests to me that they are expanding their directory share by buying up directories rather than starting new ones, and not modifying what they have bought. Let us know if you can get this cleared up with them.

Fastian

Jul 30th 2007, 5:57 pm

Thats really good news.

Congrats Mattevers.

Now you can study in peace. ;)
Best of luck.

insidedesign

Jul 30th 2007, 6:18 pm

Interesting, thanks for the info!

jetbrains

Jul 30th 2007, 6:32 pm

Congrats Matt. Thanks Pete for the news.

Badlands07

Jul 30th 2007, 7:39 pm

This is very interesting news, thank you for sharing. I am dying to know what it went for...:-)

Hamsap

Jul 30th 2007, 9:04 pm

Very good news for all directory owners and best of luck to Matt. I really really wish I had the money to buy it myself :D

onlinedude

Aug 9th 2007, 11:21 pm

FWIW, I just saw another directory on Sitepoint bought by Web Pro News.

As well, at least 2 of the directories mentioned by CReed were just recently bought by Web Pro News.

I find it really interesting that a large company suddenly is purchasing lots of directories...

Also, I believe that they "monetize" their directories (at least at this point) primarily through a newsletter rather than submission fees.

CReed

Aug 10th 2007, 7:42 pm

Also, I believe that they "monetize" their directories (at least at this point) primarily through a newsletter rather than submission fees.

Anyone else starting to receive unsolicited newletters? Check out the option at the bottom - by opting out of the newsletter, you're also removing yourself from the directory.