Hi Recently, I bought http://mustbookmark.me This is a link directory. Now I have started reading about directories but still my knowledge is very little on this topic. This website is based on Pligg CMS (don't have much idea on it :|) What does the exact purpose of this site, I didn't understood. What I understood is: People come to my site and submit their articles(few lines I would say) and post a link to their site. So in the end you get free content and they get a free back link.Seller told me you need not to do anything. Just sit and see your website grow. You see, I want to know what type of spam security/protection can be used to avoid BOTS. Because mostly on such sites, submitting link is done by a bot. Captcha is still installed, but you see now-days there are various scripts to solve them even. This website has fair traffic coming in on daily basis. GA shows 250+ UV whereas aw-stats shows 3000+ I don't know there is so huge difference?? :| And last thing what should I do to improve its quality and how can bookmarking sites be monetized?? Thanks a lot for your time in reading this post. I appreciate your valuable time & eagerly waiting for your comments. Regards PC
The problem is because pligg web sites are "attacked" by bots. GA shows only real visitors while aswstats shows any IP (bot or not) that visits your website.
dont waste your time with bookmarking sites. Ask yourself, when is the last time you went to a site like that to find information, and then clicked on the link to the site? Truth is it doesnt happen. Anyone visiting these sites legitimately are there to simply join, and submit their content, NOT to click on your ads. I get over 4k uv daily to one of my bookmarking sites (pligg too, nearly identical to urs) but looking at GA, and the reality is that its only 100-150 PER WEEk of actual human visitors! I believe that this is because once a person visits your site, they will sign up, and then use bot submissions to submit content to your site, so noone is actually seeing your ads. For my bookmarking site, I will just run it for a while until I get bored, but reality is that I wont be renewing the domain name when its due, as it is not worth it. If you have to pay for hosting for your site, then if I were you, I would just delete the site. PS. That site was listed on DP before, which means it cant be listed here again. So only other option is to flip it on flippa (big gamble as a site with no income might not sell on flippa), or play with it until you are bored, and then delete it.
Quote: For my bookmarking site, I will just run it for a while until I get bored, but reality is that I wont be renewing the domain name when its due, as it is not worth it. If you have to pay for hosting for your site, then if I were you, I would just delete the site. ----------------------- haha I love this. Yeah these are dead news man.. I was bored the second I arrived on that site
Appreciate your feedback!! But that's disheartening. So you mean to say, this website is a complete waste. There is no way we can monetize it??
only thing that I have left to try for my site, is spamming the 40k + membership list but thats not something I really want to do anyway. I need to emphasize is that if you put adsense on your site, I am allowed to hit you on the head. One thing that I learnt the hard way is that for most sites, the only profit to be made is in selling the site, not in the actual running of the site. Like the person that made your site, might sell one per week for $30-$50 per week. if the site really had a chance to be successful, I assure you they would have that site earning and keep it, rather then having to keep working hard to sell a site for a pittance.