Oh the sweat and long days staring at a monitor trying to create and maintain a useful directory. I know there are some of us out there with more than 5 directories. It just makes me wonder, how can a single person manage more than one or two directories? Are we too focused on quantity and not quality? or am I just weird?
I'll agree with you on that one. a lot of people are focusing too much on quantity and not quality these days. people need to focus in and narrow down their scope to make quality directories [sites] rather than just creating a lot of them..
I just have one. I would rather concentrate on building the one to its full potential than spreading my attention over several.
I have 11 and i'm fed-up.. I don't have time for all of them. I starting to feel like I need to reduce my inventory to focuse on just 2.
I have one and it keeps me plenty busy. We have only been around for less than a year and it has been a learning process. When we were new we were concentrating on quantity of submissions that we received and approved, and we were wrong in doing that. It took quite a bit of time to clean the site up, but we learned that quality is most important and that it takes time and dedication to do the job right. So I guess what I am trying to say is that for me at least, it is best to focus on quality and it takes a lot of time and dedication to do so. I don't know how me personally would be able to handle more than one directory right now. Cindy
I agree, there are people building dozens of identical directories changing only the logo, they think that if has 20 directories their earnings were multiplied by 20, but I believe that in some months those domains are going to be available again..
I have 1 right now. Its at a point right now where i feel ive done my best to make it work the way i want it both technicly and visually. Its also growing daily on its own and getting constant increasing traffic. Its reputation and brand is getting out there as well. Now i will start another. I will repeat my process to get it to a point where its self sufficient and high quality, then create another...and so on. but it WILL NOT create more than one at a time and i will not give up quality for quantity. Quality is what im about.
I agree and yet disagree that there are too many. This all depends on the motive offcourse. I am starting with dir #5 as I speak, but in the future only two will be a directory. I'm building PR on the domain. In the past four years I have had well over 100 or so domains, some where use and others where not even activated until I sell or let it expired. I figure it might aswell be a directory and gain a pagerank now 'till I figure what to do with them.
Well, I just have one at the moment It is already taking too much time, I do not know how you guys handle many directories.
Same here I just have one and its very new and i havent even launched it. I'd rather concentrate on one directory and make it a success rather than having 20 of the same.
Our team has 4 and thats it. 1 person for each directory. 2 of them are sitting on own templates and building quality backlinks. Aviva Directory and Abilogic But I'm surprised with the others who can manage 20 plus.
When you go through the Vilesilencer lists, it's clear that a lot of the general directories are owned and run by the same person. It's not just a matter of seeing the same script and template over and over, but also the same style of logo and other giveaway signs crop up again and again. I have 2 niche directories, and soon I will add a third. My aim is to have very little overlap between them in terms of the links added, so that they don't end up competing with each other.
I own 2 but i am actually looking to sell my general directory as i dont have the time to maintain it... i also feel that there is more money to be had in my niche webmaster directory! The issue i have at the moment is that the directory i want to sell is on a sub domain so i'd probably need to look at allocating a new domain to it before i could think about selling it... then wait for the PR to transfer across or something...
Thank you! I've no idea why they do run so many directories,what I believe is that having one quality directory can make far more than 100 crappy directories!