This auction is for text link on 34,350 Google Indexed Pages for 2 months! Majority are PR6 and PR5. Nevertheless expensive for the directory quality.
I thought it was owned by a DP member,just got to know the owner.. Great deal,Congrats,Asim(aka.coolweb)!
Also, IMHO pagerank of the directory won't hold up (of course buyer could do something about this). But congrats to coolweb! I'm sure he's a happy guy!
I am not sure on this point Jeff I will need to look more closely at his eBay sales, but what about credit for his marketing ? I don't feel qualified to question his sales prices as he was astute enough to find the buyers and they bid the prices that they sold for Nothing surprises me more about eBay Sales than what buyers will pay for a product
Taking notes onlinedude hehe he. That was a good deal that is if he makes $700 plus a month on revenue and sold for $8,000+ then the buyer got a deal. I would have held out longer if I owned a pr6.
It wasn't meant as a criticism - he's certainly done well and can be proud of that. I'm just shocked at the prices people paid, that's all.
I think coolweb already sold it around few months back to somebody. Anyway its really nice sale from its owner.
DirectoryDelux.com has 14,500 Pages Indexed at Google and another 20,000-21,000 indexed at other major engines. Check it yourself: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:directorydelux.com Our site is very highly trafficked and has an Alexa rank of 42,000! Interesting that I'm only seeing 2K pages indexed in Google, a single page in Yahoo and 700 in MSN. Or am I missing something?
Of course no inference was made, I like you are surprised at the prices But maybe for consideration it appears if I am correct that maybe a tiered scale of charges in link price sales was adopted by the seller For example the eBay rates,are rates that could be classified as commercial rates for links focused at the eBay clientele which is so mixed and cover many potential buyers from private and/or business sectors Then a set rates for links that is focused at the DP type market places, Webmaster's, Directory Owners etc
I must give props to coolweb for having one of the most successful directory sales of all time. We can criticize and question his trustworthiness now, but he did it, and he did it right. The directory is sold, and it sold pretty good. Ask said That is very true and if you know what to do, you will only gain from that effect
To me the main deciding point of the value of a directory is the the size, quality and uniqueness of the data in the database. The seller said he had 25,000 unique entries. If they are quality entries and include unique descriptions, that alone makes it worth quite a bit.
How many directories you know, that have original descriptions? I don’t know what the seller meant with unique, probably 1 site = 1 listing.
Whether the directory is set up like that at the moment is irrelevant. If the data in the database is set up nice it would probably take less than an hour to create 25,000 unique pages. As they say, content is king. If the content in the database is any good I would say whoever bought the site got a bargain (all depends on database content though).
Hi,I started the thread and bidded up to $6000 on ebay yesterday. No higher though as I dont feel I have the experience and concrete marketing skills "yet" to ensure a decent return on my money. It was good to here your opinions so I can see different view points and learn a bit reading through them. Thanks