So what's happened to bidding directories?

Okay, granted the question of bidding directories has pretty much been exhausted but I'd like to keep in the loop on events. What is the current state, if any, of bidding directories? Are they still in existence, are they still viable or have they all simply conceded defeat and moved back to real directories? Or are there still people out there who think they are of value regardless of the recent onslaught?

 

Well I don't think that any thing has happened to the bidding directories & they are not even banned. They are & will co-exist with the other web directories, If Google proves me wrong then I have no option. I am still getting traffic & also bids on a regular basis to my directory.

Also If u check the S/A section, I think that there is a new bidding directory than is coming up each day

 

Markets support niche business, and the directory market is no different there is a bidding directory niche which will be around for some foreseeable time in the future

 

Im expecting to see some of the Bidding Directories make some significant changes and add some good features, i think they need to.

I still wont be starting one but best of success if your working on making yours something special.

 

Times are changing for the bidding directories. It is best to
realise the change early and adapt to a directory more conforming
to Google guidelines.

 

bidding directories are doing very well! bidding directories are just like other directories, the only difference is the submitter has a better control over the listings, so the submitters like this kind of directories, and that's why they keep bidding and keep submitting!

I still get enough submission on my bidding directories, am working on them, and am pretty confident that they will do good in the future!

 

Did anyone say they were banned? I concede to thinking they are a complete waste of time and wouldn't in a million years use one, if I thought they were viable I'd be doing one myself as I like money like the rest of you but I don't plan on destroying the 'real' directory scene as a result. If people are still using you and bidding on a regular basis then more fool them but its thier money after all and its not for me to tell them otherwise, its thier money after all.

 

come on how are times changing

you have the odd one or two running scared and either selling or trying to sell

then you have the others like myself and mikey and more that will keep and continue to grow there bidding directories regardless of what the morons of dp keep saying.

imo bidding directories have not and will not be banned by google and will be around for a long time to come.

hopefully with everything that has happened and is yet to happen you will see a lot of the crap and blatant QBC owners disappear and the real worthwhile sites will grow

 

sad to see that crap, when its no more than link farming and also throws good operators under the same cloud, but they will be weeded out I'm sure.

As for the question yes our new directory will be a BID MK2 and i have no fears or regrets about it.

 

I'd be prepared to lay an open bet that bidding directories are not the way forward, they are a gimmick, no business (real one, like joe the plumber) is ever going to submit to them let alone get into a bidding war so you need to get a grip on reality. but hey, its only my opinion with about two thirds of the rest of directory owners who are serious about making things work long term not short term. Let's just wait and see perhaps.

Edit: The one thing that tells me people are panicking about the future of thier bidding directories is when you start getting the anonymous red reps saying 'another stupid thread'; sorry anonymous red repper, this post is only stupid if it bothers you that I talk the truth. BTW, I'm colour blind so red away.

 

Still going strong for Blendz - holding the #1 slot for bidding web directory and a steady trickle of submissions.

 

Well I've just launched my own Bidding Directory. Will i make a million? Probably not. Will I break even? Maybe. It's more an experiment just to see how successful I can make it. I know it's going to be more of a long term thingy, just want to see if I can make a go of it

 

i certainly am not in it for the short term

unlike a lot of bidding directories who have registered there domain for 1 year mine is registered for the next 3 years with plans to increase that to 10 years over the next few weeks

as for nobody submitting i get daily submissions from all kinds of websites not just over directory owners

 

A bid directory , general directory or neiche directory all need good management moving forward, just owning say a nieche does not guarantee the right formula if freddy fumbles is at the wheel.

I deleted my offer to take up your bet, but will put it back on these terms ( no money as i dont want to take it from you ) but put on the table what you think cant be done or wont work and i'll bowl them over for you.

 

I don't really think you can say for sure someones not in for the long term just because they only register a domain for a year.

 

lol, this isn't cricket, that's the only time you'd have a chance of getting money off me for betting against an Aussie. It's not the driver in this case DU, its the concept that is damaging. You see, and god knows this has been said time and time again, google don't like paid links, by that they don't like link selling for the sake of link selling, they have nothing against selling reviews for links which is massivley different but when bidding directories came on the scene it started a false economy of PR chasers.

I've only done the internet thing five years or so, but know enough to see that no real life business or genuine site of valued content would knowingly enter into a bidding war just to get a link on a directory that is simply never going to get seen by the real visitor who they want to convert into either a sale or repeat visitor. Bidding directories are a gimmick thought up by one or two bright sparks who knew there would be people of little knowledge that would jump at them, they don't care who the customer of the bidding directories are just as long as they sell their software, they've done thier bit then.

I'm betting your a youngster like me, I may be wrong, so go ask your local businessman if they had two choices, they had the choice to get listed on a good directory with good content for $50 for example which gave them a real chance of getting visitors or ask them if they would be prepared to have an open ended checkbook to get listed in a bidding directory for an unknown amount. Let's say the businessman paid $50 for his listing, all of a sudden 6 other legitimate business people came along and paid $55, $56, and so on to get thier places. Your local businessman now faces a dilemma, does he risk another X amount to get higher than his competitors? Are his comptitors even real? He doesn't know does he.

The point of the lesson is that reputable directories that are in existence at the moment only ever offer one to five top places, no if's no but's top five and if you ain't there its alphabetical. I know my Dad's a pretty shrewd businessman and asked him the question and he was like a bullet replying, saying only a fool would pay for a slot that is not guaranteed to get them a place they pay for. His words were and I quote, "If I pay $50 for a listing I want that listing to be there for the time agreed, if there's a risk of that not happening as it seems in these biddng directories then that's not good business that's gambling", my Dad's a wise guy, I'll stick with him.

I'd hedge my bets and say that maybe, and its a tiny maybe, that just one or two bidding directories will ever stay the distance, but in whole the entire concept is doomed to fail.

 

ok lets rattle these of,

i understand the concept of bid directory mk1 and agree it is poorley thought out, i have a bid directory mk2 so need to be clear on that but we do agree on concept 1, but in that thats a choice and i dont knock those people as some will become very succesful.

you lost your bet re youngster i have spend 30 plus years in the selling game the last ten or running and or involved in national comapnies and sales at all levels

i agree with your dads comments and it does not apply to a mk2 directory.

my challenge stays open tell me what or why a bid directory wont work then i will show why it will ( mk2 )

MK2 directory is a bid that reduces daily or per click as in a feature not unlike google or yahoo. ( ref )

 

this has been a very good month for all 3 of my bid directories.

 

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The current craze is to open as many bid directories as possible like this guy here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=4756518 and to accpet free $2 bids, so someone else has to pay $3 to outbid - therefore is gaining money easily.

Giving "free $2 bids" is dishonest and fraudulent. As are fake bids.