Can directories make a lot of money?

I've been deciding to start a directory for awhile now and I'm unsure if they will provide me the income I need.

So to the people who runs their own directory, do you guys make a good amount of money for it?

(need another income because I just been banned by google from their Adsense program)

thanks in advance guys!

 

No directories don’t make a loot of money, without you investing a loot of money first. If you chose to offer free listings you don’t make money and loose large amounts of time approving listings.

 

I disagree. I've made a ton of cash off a directory I barely put any effort into, it had a good pagerank on the main homepage. Just make sure it has strong backlinks and you'll be set.

 

In addition, you need to invest time and money promoting your directory due to the many competitors.

 

I started the ableshare free directory about two months ago. I agree that you can not make money from it. Unless you can combine it with other service, which I don't have interests.

Anyway I will keep directory alive for as long as possible since I have other projects as well. Maybe I will make a lot of money after 10 or 20 years?

 

“ton of cash” its a concept not a number a lot of money for you could me nothing for someone else , time is money, so normally you spend money or time.
People just think they build a directory in a day an they will get rich.

 

directories can make lots of money but you have to be

not cheap

it is a lot of effort in the beggining, but after a few months it takes up a little time, tons of profit if you smart and know what youre doing

My directory has a PR of zero but I've sold about $250 in my first 3 weeks, imagine after the PR update. You have to know some secrets to attrack traffic . . .

 

It did take 4 months for pagerank to update, but I really didn't do much else for it, I just had a strong homepage above it. Each persont o their own though.

 

Strong backlinks? People here are always selling useless backlinks. I am wondering how to get it.

 

IF you have a well designed and very unique directory, you can make a lot of money off it. Just make sure it's very selective, edited professionaly and SEO friendly. The majority of competitors out there are running generic templates, categories, etc... I don't consider them competition...

 

This is an excellent comment which I agree.

Plus you need to invest heavily in marketing and promotion providing a professional 'front line and control support services'

 

no it doesn't make good money anymore..

 

If you have a PR6 directory, you could make big money,otherwise it's hard to make good money

 

Yes, if you are talking of making money without working

 

I think directories are just in...and has a lot of potential in the future.

My premium directory network is doing good even before the PR's of some of them getting updated.

 

I personally think Directories can make you lot of money if you invest alot in getting featured premium listings and getting strong backlinks that give you a high PR. A unique design is not the main thing,but the proper advertisement and sources that drive traffic to your dir mean alot for you in the future.

The other thing is u need to either choose between which directory you can best handle, Niche directories are mostly good as the listings are of websites similar and in a General Directory you are in a jack of all and master of none situation and besides there are too too many General Web Directories as compared to the Niche ones!

My 2 cents!

 

Yes, you can definitely make money from Directory but you have to create more categories with tons of contents for people to get interested.

 

In my eyes: NO

I have for a while a paid directory.
I'm promoting it and I have spend a lot of money on it.
So far, nobody has paid the stupid low fee.

(I'm not speaking about my bidding directory in my footer)
That's another story.

So far, I have more costs, than profit with my paid directory.
I was also a long time a free directory.
What a waste of time: in the last weeks of beeing a free directory, I received 100's of spam submissions.
Think again, before you start with it.
I have more bad things with it, than good things.

I'm considering of letting my paid directory (not my bidding directory), just die ...
I won't spend any money anymore on it.
There are to many paid directories.
And also after promoting a lot, I still got PR 0 after a year.

Seems Matt Cutt is also busy, punishing paid directories as well.
I can't speak anything good, about this person.
To say it friendly GRRRRRRRR

Jason