Web Directory List Under New Ownership

As some of you know, I recently purchased Web Directory List from Nick. There are a few things I wanted to mention.

As you can see, it has been moved over to my custom script with categories. The original site did not have categories (was alphabetical). If anyone truly feels their listing is in the wrong category, let me know.

No offense to submitters, but the descriptions that were there were quite bad. I think a lot of it had to do with the character length limitations and confusion with the two lines method the original script used. So, I spend a lot of the day yesterday re-writing every description. I tried to incorporate information from the original descriptions as much as possible, and confirmed changes, etc. Again, if there are any corrections, let me know.

All listings that were on the site before I purchased it have been manually re-entered into the directory, and have the exact same bid amounts as they did before.

The goal of the site now is to be a quality resource for web directories and directory-related sites. This will be the list I use first when submitting new listings, for example. One thing I like about the bid concept is that it helps show which directory owners invest into their directories and promote them. So, they should be pretty much sorted that way, which makes for a good list when submitting, in addition to Jeff's excellent run-down, of course.

The site was PR3 when I bought it (looks like it is moving to PR4 with this new PR update). Promotion is now beginning on the site, though. Expect to see good things for it in the future. It should develop into a quality resource offering strong backlinks in the near future. I suspect it will be PR6 or 7 with the next update.

Note: You may notice that my directories are in the top positions on the homepage. I did not add those after purchasing the site. Those were the positions from before I purchased.

If anyone has any questions or comments, feel free to let me know.

 

Good luck with this Chris! I'm sure it will become a very valuable resource.

 

It looks great, great value too.

It would be nice if we could set up subscriptions to automatically top up each month.

 

With all due respect, I think here there is a confusion between marketing and promotion. Marketing a directory is to convince submitters that a link from the directory is worthwhile. Promoting it means getting the best deals in quality links to your directory which gives strong backlinks to the submitters. The bid list serves to show which owners invest to market their directories.

 

Big BURN,?

Brought to you buy the top dwellers, already at the top of the ladder.

 

Chris, you may be fixing all the submitted link description and sorting them out, but all category links don't show listed links except the top 10 paid links.

 

I noticed this too.

 

There was a small glitch on this. Has been resolved now and a-ok.

 

nice going,and i will be adding my linksdirec site when i get home