With 50 new directories a day, and almost null barriers to entry on the low end of the market, to successes you have 2 options capital or creativity. The high PR 6+ directories as become capital intensive game you have to invest high amounts of money to achieve and a high monthly bill to keep it. The mid range PR (5-4) is a innovation and quality converting traffic game. The low range PR (4-0) is a low / free submissions and high quantity game.
Yes, it's possible For example, the owner of SevenSeek Web Directory are making $8k monthly,See here I have made $500 from my entireurl directory and still growing.
Its good money but $96k a year is hardly rich. The thing about directories compared with other businesses is only the top few are making good money. Lets say the elite bar yahoo is botw which probably makes x,xxx,xxx a year, for the top industry company thats not a lot. The most part of the directory industry also is so reliant on search engines, one algo change could cause a lot of damage. Also even a directory loosing PR will cause a large drop in income.
So you think in 1 years time, you'll have 1000 high PR (6+) directories? The most I can do is wish you luck. Affiliate marketing is some of the easiest money you'll ever make...why not do it? It's instant cash. My first 10 days in affiliate marketing (when I was a total noob), I made over $700. You can most certainly be a leader in the affiliate industry, check out Shoemoney, he was known as the King of Ringtones.
This is really great topic, I'm starting on Directory Website!. But my directory's scope only in my city.
Well im glad you made a couple bucks , what you made in a week doesnt even covor my hosting. Much like !ASK! said above..... We will bringing New "Quality Control" standards to the MUCH needed directory arena. We will raise the Bar and make others think before they just grab a free script and get involved in our industry. Free directories converting to paid will have to upgrade thier systems to be considered "Quality Directories". Anything less and you wont get sells....period! The day of dealing with Spam directories and fly by nite directory owners is coming to an abrupt close. 1000 directories was an estamated guess and nothing more. We will continue to build quality directories till we say its time. We will Bring Back the TRUST, QUALITY, FAIR PRICES back to industry standards. thx malcolm
Thats a good dream, i spend a lot on submissions daily and seen tons of directories yet every single directory i go to is the same, i see nothing innovative in any of them. BOTW offers some good services that you don't see everywhere else but apart from that how is this bar going to be raised? Where is the much needed quality? Unless you call building deep links to each category "raising the bar"? I doubt many normal web users use directories anymore, theres far quicker ways to search. The only thing keeping them alive is webmasters, if one day google doesn't like directories anymore then thats pretty much it. Basically every directory owner starts a dir, buys links for pagerank gets a good pagerank then sells links. Exactly what the search engines don't want.
We can sit here and "rant or rave" all we want..... it will make NO difference... as we upgrade all network directories with the newest tech and mods the industry currently offers we will control standards till google says different. Im sure you will agree that change is needed and that others follow by example.... Simply, If they Dont they will not be able to compete. To dream is human.... We all have them. To first accomplish your dream you must TRY!. We all have our agendas to deal with mine is.... Elimanate the 1000s of Needless or worthless directories being created daily buy raising the "Whatever You Want To Call It" This is Not a debate but reality in motion, others will try to downgrade and critisize or change the topic but will soon have NO choice but to comply to new industry standards or parish.... have a nice day! thx malcolm
If you compare youtube the top video site, to a useless needless video site, the difference is huge. Compare a top directory to a needless directory i couldn't point out the difference apart from PR, backlinks and all stuff that offers no benefit to normal users. But your right theres no point arguing
Do you guys recieve millions of submission with discriptions like: Nice site Keep up the good work Pretty much have nothing to say ... I had a directory and got tired of these submissions, so I sold it. .
Directories are a labor of love.... I think you cannot start a directory with the sole purpose of making money from it .... you have to put your passion (and money) into it, otherwise it will be like any other directory ... null and boring. The idea is you need to be unique, you need to get your directory to stand out - be different from the thousand of other directories out there. As malcolm1 said ... over time you will get the traffic and increased PR ($$)..
Im sorry to here that... As you fell victom to another directory owner who is trying to elimanate competition by trying to drive the rest crazy and ultimatly sell thier directories. If the script was phpld then a few bucks would have saved your directory buy simply adding a mod and a few bucks spent. You have allowed him to win this battle, he tried with us a and week later he is NO LONGER a pest and has been terminated. Regardless i wish you success in your next venture. thx malcolm
Just because someone gives you a hard time does not mean that you need to give up what you worked hard to build. There is a someone from Germany who sends me an email every single day through one of the free sections on the directory trying to get a free submission with his viagra sites and what not. But it only takes a second for me to delete those so it is really no big deal. I know I could block the ip and all that stuff but I have better things to do then worry about spammers.