i have been changing the detail pages at one of my directories and was wondering what people like to see on a detail page Here is what a typical detail page looks like at my directory as you can see i have used a different alexa grapgh than most directories and also including bookmarking tools and stats what else do you like to see on a detail page. one thing i am considering is adding related links to the detail page showing the top 5 links in the category
No follow tags to google, yahoo, bookmarking tools, etc in detail pages always help. Have a look at: http://www.blogaboutmysite.com/directory/detail/link-94.html Try showing the PS, Technorati, edu backlinks, gov backlinks etc... there are lot of things more!
This is an interesting details page http://www.forplex.com/detail/link-483.html Lots of features to see take a look
PR, backlinks, PS, technorati links, gov links, alexa and all that stuff have no use to the regular visitor, I don't know why everybody is putting them unless they are only targetting webmasters. you should put: bookmarking tools, a thumbnail that you let them upload or just a snapshot using tools. You can put contact information if available, related entries to compare, related categories,... something useful to any visitor.
Check detail page here also at bidding directory. Showing lot of things there. http://www.topbidlinks.com/link/11.html
I would like to see the link title near the top of the page, and maybe something to highlight that it is a featured listing. But overall its a very good detail page, better than most.
And don't forget of more advanced features offered by DirectoryDump.com http://www.directorydump.com/audio-and-video-editing-software-link-497.html or LinkForever.net http://www.linkforever.net/info/blazempcom.html
Nice work there Choice. However, I think it will be better to have the "link description" on top and Alexa, Social Bookmarking below the link details. (Just a thought)
For general directory I think you already doing great. Adding related links in same category, or links own by same owner mods might be useful. But I agree mhamdi in this regards: ps, backlinks, alexa stats, etc is for webmaster. If you run directory of directories or directory list, then this info is very useful. If you running a niche directory, you can provide a lot more useful info in detail page. Here is one of my favorite detail page : http://www.bigfreeguide.com/camping/detail/campsites/east-bowstrips-caravan-park/53.html It is very informative for users.
I see most of the directories have some thing like this http://www.directory.com/link-detail-web-hosting-697.html This is not good from SEO point of view as you have some words like 697 and link detail I am doing deeplink Mod for my directory just see this http://www.webcolor.org/computers_and_internet/web_directories/ click on ElegantWebdirectory (www.elegantdirectory.com) http://www.webcolor.org/ElegantWebDirectory.html It can be also changed into like this a domain name ( E.g http://www.webcolor.org/elegantdirectory.html I have not completed it yet I hope to complete it soon!
http://www.webcolor.org/ElegantWebDirectory.html Yeah, and what we see? Complete chaos. Double header or top_bar, no link info .... Also using TITLE string for rewrite is unacceptable, can cause many errors.
dagre the chaos is design it has nothing to do with the rewriting. I think that's interesting to get the details of the page using the same detail.php without passing the id. @seventh, that's a great details page for a niche directory
I don't think that owner name is necessary for the visitor. hits ,may give an idea on how popular is a site but more used to show if a directory sends traffic so not really useful for the visitor. I might add a snapshot though
So if you wanted to show rewrited URL - it's also unacceptable in the style it is used. There must be something characteristic for such URL other way it will cause errors for some links very soon as it's not unique enough. I use friendly unique URLs for detailed pages but made it unique enough.
Actually not even the details page is necessary, yahoo, dmoz, business.com, skaffe, botw etc don't have details pages. So what I actually meant by "necessary" is "what I like"
That's what I am waiting for him to explain too, but I like the idea if it is feasible. He cannot retrive the link details using the title, not only because it can me used for many listing but he is also removing spaces so he can't recover the link using just a modified string. let's see how he did it.
String can be modified but still such links can be duplicated... So what about my links? Domains are always unique http://www.linkforever.net/info/audiotopnetcom.html http://www.linkforever.net/info/blazempcom.html CLEAN,SEO-FRIENDLY,SHORT and UNIQUE