Some questions i have: 1. How hard and competitive it will be to promote a directory? 2. what is your main income from a directory? 3. How much you charge for a link based on your PR of the directory 4. What keyword on the domain is important to make a successful directory based on SEO 5. How much you spend on marketing it 6. is country coded domains are worth any good if i want this directory to be for world wide? country domains like Co.UK and for example only, ORG.UK?
1. How hard and competitive it will be to promote a directory? Extremely easy - just fork out $$$$$ Create the Buzz 2. what is your main income from a directory? Submissions 3. How much you charge for a link based on your PR of the directory Based on Traffic -- Quality and PR 4. What keyword on the domain is important to make a successful directory based on SEO Anything that is remotely related to a directory 5. How much you spend on marketing it The more you spend the better-- no upper limit --lower limit $3K if you want to get noticed. 6. is country coded domains are worth any good if i want this directory to be for world wide? country domains like Co.UK and for example only, ORG.UK? It does not matter at all -unless you project it otherwise
1. How hard and competitive it will be to promote a directory? Its a 365/24/7 process that is continuous 2. what is your main income from a directory? From Reviews and Home Page Daily Listing Mod revenue 3. How much you charge for a link based on your PR of the directory Difficult to give price, depends a lot on the traffic and the quality of your reviews price varies considerably 4. What keyword on the domain is important to make a successful directory based on SEO Multiple keywords give you multiple options especially by using unique content to drive unique traffic 5. How much you spend on marketing it Approx 100% of the site revenue for the 1st year at least 6. is country coded domains are worth any good if i want this directory to be for world wide? country domains like Co.UK and for example only, ORG.UK? Preferable to go for .com .net etc before country specific, unless country specific niche directory
1. How hard and competitive it will be to promote a directory? everything depands on your skills, talents, Previous experiences and Goals, if you can think out of the box and see where the potential of this industry is then your directory May go BIG, if you start your promotion by buying avatars space, then i dont know... 2. what is your main income from a directory? Submissions of course. but if you get a high pr and a good traffic for your directory, you can also considere selling site wides and advertising space. 3. How much you charge for a link based on your PR of the directory thats depand on the marketing and vision of the owner, some owners will lower the price to get more submissions (quantity) and some will set a high recurring fee to get quality submissions. the pr is not the only criteria. 4. What keyword on the domain is important to make a successful directory based on SEO Since most the keywords that we target contain the word "directory", (web directory, Business directory, bid directory, real estate directory, shopping directory...) having "directory" in your domain name may help from A SEO point of view, but there is other things to considere when buying a domain name, like if its easy to remember, brandable... 5. How much you spend on marketing it personally i spend more time than money promoting my directories, but.. once again depanding on your talent and skills, anything from $500 to 5k per month is a good start. 6. is country coded domains are worth any good if i want this directory to be for world wide? country domains like Co.UK and for example only, ORG.UK? No, dont choose national Ltds when you are targeting the global Market.
1. How hard and competitive it will be to promote a directory? ans) Very very hard and competitive! unless you have $$$$ don't think of getting into directories! 2. what is your main income from a directory? ans) Link reviewing and approving the good links, we charge for that 3. How much you charge for a link based on your PR of the directory ans) Price deponds on various factors! on bidding directories there is a minimum bid and no maximum limit, on regular directories it deponds on traffic, pr, deeplinks etc! 4. What keyword on the domain is important to make a successful directory based on SEO ans) if you want to make a good, web directory, it dosenot necessarily mean that you own a domain like goodwebdirectory.com Though if you have domains like businessdirectory webdirectory etc it will sure help you on the serps! but those domains are all taken, so i suggest you to register a nice, brandable two word domain!! 5. How much you spend on marketing it it deponds on how big you want to make it! it deponds on your budjet! 6. is country coded domains are worth any good if i want this directory to be for world wide? country domains like Co.UK and for example only, ORG.UK? a .com is absolutely recomended! Gii.in is an example of how country code domains can get success! but then if you go for it, get the .in not co.in! hope you get the point
Well, i was watching this thread, without replying so some say it is easy to promote, if you have the cash, some say it's not. i guess it's not so competitive as web hosting business is. if you can make a trust and reputation with your directory, with traffic and PR you can ask high prices for links. the domains i had thought about (and now i just booked them ) are: webdirectory.co.il and directory.org.il each one cost me $18. in anyway i think they worth much more then that when it's comes to israel domains. (not just domains, everything here is expensive) so... what u think? how do u think the SE would react to this 2 domains? tnx
simple words:: either high $$$,$$$ oR spend all days long working on your directory and get it to top search engine i.e. create something new rather than a fly by directory.