Hi all Over the last few months ive kept saying that i wont add sites manually to my directories, ie: looking for good quality sites for the various categories. And i spoke with various owners here that do and now i am beginning to consider doing this myself, im always open to a change and although i can imagine the obvious benefits from adding sites for example the categories not being empty, quality resources listed for visitors etc.. I would like to know of any other benefits you see from doing this if you dont mind sharing your thoughts? Note: If i do go ahead with it i wont go over the top with it as the way i look at it is others submit their sites and pay for their reviews and their sites shouldn't be buried under a load of sites added manually.
Good decision. I have been doing it for a while now. When you start seeing hits to your detail pages from google to the sites you added, its worthwhile. For every 15 sites you add if only 1 gets a hit from google every day and you added 1500 sites, thats potentially an extra 100/day in traffic. The content/traffic benefits are the best.
Hi Pipes, I am planning to add a few crucial sites per category, Government sites, Research institutes, International or UN organisations Sites everyone might need, but which won't submit to any directory of their own initiative As for commercial firms of any type, probably not
Thanks i know i kept saying i wouldn't do this in the past, but it now seems like a good idea indeed, especially after reading what your saying mikey. It sounds good.
Till a month or so ago i for one also had a critical view of adding sites on your own, one it doesnt look good, (slightly despo vibes) ... and two too much effort! but ive also been talking to other directory owners and am advised to do this for various reasons, 1. a blank page saying "this category has no sites", gives out vibes of a dead site! (thats the kiss of death) 2. on empty categories you get no PR, unless you have other content! so i think i should start adding sites also M.
Hi centime, that sounds good to me, as you say they wouldn't be submitting anyway, and at the same time its not like your giving listings to sites that could be future submitters. So good information sites mostly it seems would be useful.
Hi msolution, much like yourself im beginning to see how beneficial it could be, i wouldn't go OTT with it, but selectively its seeming like a sensible thing to do now.
I think centtime makes sense here, add informational sites on your own, and let commecial sites submit on their own! M.
I add sites that i think the user will find interesting. That includes the shopping/business category. Saying "i wont add that because i want the cash from their submission" doesnt make sense to me.
i do that for my regular directories! but what about bid directories! should we add sites manually to them too! with minimum bid amounts! Most bid directories have empty categories! may be it's time to add some good links manually to our bid directories too
Uttoran, i made a start with zorg links. Adding quality sites at $1. http://www.zorg-links.com/advertisement/ I stopped as im waiting for version 1.4 with sub categories.
I didnt mean that! ... i mean afcourse thats the end of opening any site! but a balance has to be maintained between making your site a "resource", and economics of the site! What i have seen though if i have a e-commerce site of a perticular niche doing well in the Serps, i get more submissions in that niche! coz some people submit via the Serps, hitting out at their competetors! so if even if we add 2 sites in a manner they do well in the serps! ...ummm ... M.
that's exactly my thoughts! but then, say minimum bid is $3! so if we add $1 links then it won't compete anyway! yes, i though too but never really do it, adding bids manually in bid directories gives a bad feeling actually But, at some point we have to do it, as filling up every category is not quite possible if we don't add sites manually! also the really good, government etc sites will never submit on there own! Looking foreword to the sub cats, may be that could help!
This probably sounds cliche but I want my site to be a quality resource for visitors. A good resource will bring traffic. One thing that makes a good resource is when a visitor clicks on a category they should find something there, so I don't want any empty categories in my directory. I do have very few empty categories that I am working on filling. When that is done I will probably keep adding a few a day because content is king. Part of what makes up content is quality listings. I don't think any of those pr 9 and pr 10 quality resource sites are going to be submitting to any directory any time soon so the only way they will get there is by manually adding them.
A great solution for manually adding sites to a new directory I am sure the concept can work for an older directory too.
Personally, when I see a large fee for a directory submission, my first instinct is to look @ the "latest submitted", and check the dates for submissions. Basically as a customer I'd like to know that I'm getting something worth my dollar. I like to see that the directory is busy and is worth the submission fee... Most big directories seem to be doing this. Before the PR's(poop) dropped I was getting steady everyday submissions; so I didn't bother doing this, but now I am thinking about doing this myself.
Hi werewe, it seems like a healthy thing to do doesn't it, it wasn't very long ago that i said i wouldn't do it but after giving it some thought it seems sensible if done properly.