Is it hard to create a directory that makes decent money?

Ok always been curious from those of you who have directories running. Sure I know you spend time editing and checking peoples links, but how profitable has it become for you?

How difficult would it be to start a directory from scratch and really get it flowing with good traffic?

 

well, i had a directory 2 years ago, and it was PR5, i used to make it from $150 or $170 per month. so if you have a directry with high PR, then you will make money.

But if you start a new directory, you need atleast 4 to 6 months then you can start making money. but keep in mind, you need high PR to make money.
Traffic really doesnt matter for directory, all about PR

 

What's your criteria for 'decent' money?

Like all other projects DIRECTORY is also tough to make money and require lot of hard work and marketing

 

You are definitely right about the PR. I still notice that people try to put a crazy price on links when they have no PR. I notice some sites pages have really high PR and others have none. Whats the deal there when people are paying good money to have a link on a 0 PR site? REDICULOUS!!

 

So where will your submitters come from if you have no traffic?

 

Like this you mean: http://www.bidforplacement.com/ well they're all obviously idiots Or possibly savvy webmasters investing for the future

 

Well, thats is because The owner of directory is from DP & next update that directory will get high PR. caz all the money goes to promote and baclink building. They trust eachother, thatswhy they buy link from PR0.

But not all webmaster going to buy link from PR0 directory. You have to be well reputed and well known guy here in DP.

 

It can be profitable if you manage your funds right. You have to invest an initialy amount of money, for the first period of time. After this, when you start earning you reinvest your earnings, and there will be a time when you will earn more than what you spend.
But as all jobs, you can't do it light-hearted. You have to work and gain trust.
You may want to check my blog, in the tutorials section I have some articles about starting a directory, and about linkbuilding on a budget.
You might get some info from there.

 

Really! I can't imagine that, but look forward to it

 

mikey1090 , i think you have missed my last post by minutes.

I have already mention why people buy link from pagerank 0, and you mention people dont buy link from PR6 , thats totally wrong. Why?

Of course people buy PR6 link more than PR0, you can go around and look
But yah People dont but those PR6 link which are Dropped domain. means those domain expired & ppl register and make a directory, Those PR6 link people dont buy.

But if you have 4 or 6 months old directory & have PR6, tons of people will buy your link, And i have seen they dont really care about traffic.

 

You don't need anybody to back you up

 

Eventually, and if everything goes according to plan.....hopefully.

 

Sure it's hard. But it's hard building any business from scratch.

With hard work and focus I'm sure you can do well with a directory.

PR changes all the time so I would not ONLY focus on that.

I still believe traffic is king. No directory got hurt from too much traffic and if everything else changes and you have traffic you will still be in geat shape.

Isn't there a limit of how much someone will pay for pr? But with strong traffic you can sell more ad space too for higher price.

 

if they make decent money would they be selling them for $100.00

check the sales threads and see you can get a decent looking directory indexed with pagerank for $100.00

 

Starting is always a difficult process
- creating unique category structure
- good unique template/logo/design
- installing script, modding/tweaking
- advertisement = lots of .........

Once you have achieved success and good rankings, it becomes easy..

 

if you are good at marketing then you can make a lot of money with directories, there is at least 10 Million potential Buyers and they are waiting for you to convince them submit their websites into your directories.

the question is can you ? and how are you going to reach those potential customers and convince them to put their hard earned money into your directory, do you have a strategy do you know how to contact buyers and how to find them ?

i can see a pr5 directory selling inclusions like crazy, and another pr7 directory with a bad promotion struggling to pay the hosting fees, it also makes laugh to see that most of new directories owners are doing the same mistakes and same weak promotion ways (Sig links, Avatars, Banner ads.).. DP is only small island in the ocean, you got to think out of the box to make some money

cheers.

 

I'm curious about directory income vs. other venues like adsense on a content site, etc.

Thoughts?