Web Directory Reviews is asking for your feedback

As you know some weeks back we have starterd a new project with another well known member of DP.
Web Directory Reviews, reviews directories and will continue to do so.
I would like to know if the way the directories are being reviewed and presented, is something you like.
Would you like something else?
In a few words, what would you like to see on our site?

Your feedback is valuable.

 

That's a good point you have there mickey.
And that's a good place for me to post my # 500 post

 

I think you need a new logo, the one that is there looks amatuerish. Also the top yellow bar is a little broken in IE6 so the words are partly in and partly out.

I think your reviews are a little to personal and friendly, they need to be more professional and you need to present facts instead of 'thoughts'. An example would be when you say a site loads fast (faster than most) you need to give a time and an average time to compare that to.

My advice to you is to break the review down into categories and rate each category with a total rating at the end. Example: Design Appeal, Ease of Navigation, Site Load Speed, Pricing, Additonal mods and value, etc...

One thing you might want to also do is have your site edited by a native English speaker so it will appeal to the widest audience.

 

Great to know that its working, we are not providing professional views, cause there are no professionals in this field and those who consider themselves as professionals are kidding themselves, *cough cough does the name Rand Fish , remind u of something ? These are all personal view points , site is supposed to be friendly the main title reads " Providing Web Directory Reviews as stated by the People " , and how many out there are "Professionals" , we are aiming at setting a common platform for all the directory owners, to let others know why someone should submit to their directory and their motives behind the directory.

And if we start calling us professionals we in for a "bash ride" of the lifetime. Hence we are trying to stick to personal and friendly reviews, and as per site speeds, they can vary from time to time also, so we cannot have that criteria, cause if i remember correctly my server does backups every night and i am sure at that time sites load slower than usual. So one cannot put site speed as criteria, we can add that no problem if you want using alexas stats as they mention the site speeds also. What would you say, shall we go for it ?

And regarding "Value " , well to be frank after what happened to "UncoverTheNet.com" how can we put a value to something we are not expert about? It will be just as wrong as saying "Mikeys zorg link has low value compared to Aviva or Alive " , but we all know it has potential and putting a value on some directory i personally feel is wrong , as all it does is, makes directory owner pissed about us , just like who are we to judge who is QBC or not, and how exactly will you suggest we put value to a directory ? What factors to choose? There are so many factors involved while running directory.

And remember websites speak what their owners want them to speak, so if we put value to a directory, i personally feel that we are putting a value on the person behind that directory.

Regarding the Pricing comment, someone can find $1 expensive and someone can find $200 cheap, so i find it hard from my viewpoint to say if the pricing is right or not, cause thats a factor that dictates the promotion of directory at times.

@ " One thing you might want to also do is have your site edited by a native English speaker so it will appeal to the widest audience "

Yes yes my finglish no goody, will see if we can find someone to help us out what about sakes u find his good , if so i can just let him do all the posting..

@Logo, yes yes check http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=420936 i am trying to get feedbacks collected on that issue. So do join in.

Ok i wrote too much and probably in too bad of a finglish so please pardon moe.

But i shall ask others , shall we stop posting too personal and too friendly reviews or you guys happy with that ?

By the way i have been brining shortcomings of the directories i noticed to the respective owners, like Vic, and to Silky, you can contact them to confirm, i just do not post much about that on the blog itself as those things reflect bad, and we are not about bashing other directories, those directories who we feel are not worth getting listed do not get listed.

 

sakes = me (dsakella) in here.
Interview looks friendly, and this is what we tried to do. It's the same interview for all webmasters, so noone can say that some questions are in favor of a specific one. We let people see what the webmaster has to say about his/her directory and then we add our comments, and trust me we do not hesitate to point out our objections where they exist.
We try to be as objective as possible.
Keep in mind that we know most of these people through DP only, and reviews are being made for free, so we have no reason, or motivation to favor one over another.
Of course we will consider all things mentioned here, and we will definetaly improve through time, as site is new. It will build a character soon.
Thank you all.

 

paidhosting you keep saying 'we' so I guess you are involved in the project.

In your reply you keep saying: we can't do this and we can't do that. I just think as a review site if you don't come across as professional and provide some sort of measurable data then the reviews taken as - "one friendly directory owner thinks of another friendly directory owner."

I don't think there is anything wrong with it if that is the kind of impression you are trying to achieve but I don't think the site would ever become a resource for potiential customers outside of the DP webmasters/directory owners.

dsakella also mentions that the review is partly an interview, maybe the serperation between those should be a little clearer.

Either way good luck and you can always alter the site setup down the road if it is not working out. I look forward to reading other opinions.

 

The review is partly an interview, where the owner talks about his directory. This is his opinion and of course it is a bit subjective - supportive to his site. It can still reveal some facts about the site though. After all we think that the owner of a directory is the #1 factor for its success. After this we add our comments, in a more objective way, and we point out anything we like or we don't like about the site.
Improvements will be made all the time as our target is to provide a whole review on the site, good and bad things and include as many aspects of it as possible.

I would also like to see new thoughts about what other users want to see on Web Directory Reviews, and be sure we take every opinion under serious consideration.

 

LOL!! Sorry mike. I guess the name mickey is under heavy copyright
I'll keep this in mind. Take care.

 

One little suggestion that i will like to put is "Go slow" ... (Let me explain)

I mean to say, there should a limit that One post each day (at least) or better one post/review after X number of days. I am saying that because, having too many reviews threads can just decrease the value. (My opinion)

If there be one review, there are better chances that more users will read it and add their comments/suggestion to it.

(Sorry if that doesn't make sense at all )

 

That line made perfect sense .

Anyways how bout contests ? Monthly contents for both the interviewers and for those posting comments ?

 

lol
I knew something is coming at me

Contest for people who comment ?? .... Nope ... you will be getting more spam then useful comments ....

 

You think we will have contest for spam or who makes most comment, nada, more like quality comments

 

Well, sure things can work out if done under some strict rules.

But if 100+ people will "attempt" to make "quality comment" what will you get??

 

Hmm, a Blog with quality comments ?