Hi everyone, As you can see we try to rebuild our community at Directories Forum! Today we launched a new concept in order to say a B.I.G. Thank You to all our members and to all the people who supported us and still believe that DF can become an important place for directory owners. Today we launched DFBid.com (DirectoriesForum Bid Directory). THis is not another bid for position directory! We would like to call it "Posting Directory" ! From now on every active member of our community will have the chance to earn money in order to bid for his link on www.DFBid.com ! Every post you make, every thread you start will be converted in $$$ which will be used to promote your website on our Posting Directory! Please be aware that spam is not accepted and only quality threads and posts will be counted! Here are the basic rules of the story: 1. Every DF member with minimum 10 posts is eligible to submit on DFBid as many links as he wants. We will give you $1 to start for every website you submit. Please fill in the details and forget about the second part (payment). We will manually approve your links. 2. Every 4 quality posts you make (minimum 20 words) we will pay you $1 to spend in our Posting Directory! 3. Every 2 threads you start (min. 20 words) we will pay you $1 to spend in our Posting Directory! 4. Of course if you are willing to pay for a submission you are free to do so (some people are to busy or lazy to post ) Our directory works as a bidding directory too. Every money we will make on this directory will be used to promote DirectoriesForum.com and DFBid.com ! 5. The Directory will be updated daily acording with everyone's contribution during that day. We will probably do it between 22 - 24 GMT We would like to thank you again for your support as DF members and if our directory will grow up and will help your websites it means that we give something in return for your time spent on DF . Thank you, Marius - www.DFBid.com
We just feel that we have to give something back somehow. There are things in life that money can't buy, right? Thank You
Sounds like a good idea Loredan. Sounds unique and should help you out with your directory forum. I will have to check it out. Scott
The only problem is that bids are inflated by including non-cash incentives ... Don't get me wrong you can make any offer you wish, but bidders would have to know quite clearly that incentives have been used. It is a very small notice on the home page and I don't see this notification anywhere on the submit page. Otherwise I think this would be great for increasing participation and traffic to your forum. Congrats! Ethical Bid Directories ... Rulz of conduct!
Rtchar, This directory has been set up as part of the promotion process at DirectoriesForum.com. We will not advertise it as a bid for position directory! This is our way to give something in return of the time spent on DF by our members and I doubt there will be people willing to bid money in order to get the first positions! However if a non member would want to submit his website he is welcome to do so by paying the $1 acceptance fee. The small notice you are talking about it is just under the directory name and it shows on every single page including the "Submit" page! Please have a look again! We will also modify the TOS and the FAQ pages in order to clearly show the main purpose of DFBid Thank you
I would kindly ask you to post in here the links you submitted in order to check membership. We have received 4 submissions so far which we do not know if belongs to DF members! If you are the owners of the following sites please post in here so we will know that you are a DF member: - Fosee.com - CyberWebLink.com - Wamchu.com - Aeoma.com Please bear in mind that the Free submission is open only to DF members with 10 and more posts! After the submission will be accepted we will start counting your posts and threads which will be converted in $$$ to spend on www.DFBid.com ! Thank You
I have to agree so far ... everything has been done ethically ... should be a great benefit to your forum. Glad to hear you will clearly state the forum relationship in as many places as possible. Some people are easily confused ... the rest just don't read the page.