when I start my bid directory www.ventedoy.com on december, I never mean to make it a full features directory like phpld. For me, its only for advertising purpose, like all those unique advertising site, milliondollarhomepage.com, linkexperiment.com, kingofthebills.com, 50pageswebsite.com But, to avoid it to be a linkfarm, I add a category to it, so only similar niche sites listed on same page. And, I believe, this is the real purpose of bid directory, for advertising and to give traffic for the top bidder. It will never replace the traditional directory. Like some of you said, you don't have any control on where your listing will appear on traditional directory, some sort by PR, some sort by alphabetical, some sort by hits and some sort by date. But, in bid directory, all listing are sort by value, so, if you willing to spend more, you can get your listing on first page. If you don't mind where your site will appear, just pay minimum bid. I'm looking forward to see bid directory to add more features for seo purpose, like deeper categories, detail description, meta keywords, meta description etc. In fact, I'd start implementing this feature on my bid directory.
yea, off to bed too, have an audition for Dancing With the Stars in the morning, and I know I have a pretty good chance. , wish me best
hehe, I think people are getting smarter who to submit to and look at credibility before pagerank(strength) now
If no one is after the fist page, in my opinion it will be same as PHPLD. After a while people will not bid to be in the fist page because they will think the price is not worth. Easy solution for not exchanging bidding links(buy mine I will buy yours), no one excepts bid directories to bid, And Done.
as in real life, the pyramid ends somewhere and the final bidders cant affor the $10,000 or however much it reaches....
For those that are going to do business unethically anyway, it would not matter. They would just do with different sites they own (non-bidding). So, a step like that would only put restrictions on the legitimate.
Yes as we have the rules of ethics that you cannot bid your sites high, so you must be trading links or bids and for putting such a restrictions it is just not fair for those who do business right.
I guess the hardest part is knowing just exactly goes on "behind the scenes" on these types of directories. It is not a case of having a flat price that everyone pays. And to the average customer that knows nothing about you, the have no way to make judgement about what happened. I think the concept can work, and I'm already thinking about some things that will help insure good practices.
Very rare and almost impossible you will ever find that. I've experienced it first hand from a handful of people, where they are your friend one minute and then backstab and lie the next. I can actually count those whom I trust on this forum with ONE hand. Nothing can be ensured with the way people are these days. They say one thing one day and play dumb the next and/or try to slither their way around and out of things. I mean, what are you thinking of that could possibly work; a hand written contract? Other than that, there is nothing to go by to give any reassurance at all. This is coming from first hand experience and not some second hand he says she says crapola. To give my .02 on everything, I see darker days ahead on all facets of what everyone here is a part of, before things brighten up.