www.cascandra.com this is my own directory and im using skalinks directory script but i changed orginal script about %70 rate.
One of the first things I learnt in business was be aware of similar products but don't go about knocking a competitor selling or making the same product Why, coz they sure as hell will bite back sometime In a competitive and free market Sure knock inferior/poor quality/rip offs/scams etc
To EveryQuery, Only dumb asses use videos, signals or pictures to express themselves, or may be you couldn't do more than taking scripts off-the-shelf and have a directory, two or many as I see. To other dir owners, I have to agree that good coders make good directories out of any script, but using phpLD as it is - is not a good idea. Cheers
So is your problem the market dominance and your concern over the effect that has on SEO? Or is it just that you don't like seeing one script dominate? Or is it the directory owners with their lack of creativity in skinning and cataloging the directories?
Why spend thousands for someone to code a directory for you when you can take a ready-made script (that is a damn good one) and customize it? You can't be too greedy..But hey, if money isn't an option. Go waste it!
Here's one I wrote in java/jsp. It's a recreation and entertaintment directory. You can submit tourist attractions and the like. www.whenwegetthere.com I also have another one for restaurants. www.whenwedine.com
Grokodile is a custom coded directory. However, I don't think it is appropriate to knock the directory scripts out there. There are some very fine directories based on basically each of the scripts... it just takes time and effort to spruce up the default interface which some webmasters don't bother to do.
i am using esyndicat at Adult Directory and I am also trying to code my own script with little knowledge i have in php But don't tell phpLD is stupid its too harsh on one's part