Directory Submission Service : What you expect?

Why don't you guys fix the price up a bit and battle it out on quality?

 

To be honest if quality is the main factor then the price must remain 45$ for 100 directories as before. And believe me that it will remain. I will take only 2 orders with this promotional price (0.33$) and then I will return to the original price (0.45$).

 

Fix it guys. Fortunately, we have no big competetion like SEO firms. We can have directory submitters association..

I'm ready. Decide and fix.

Cheers,
Tuning

 

Perhaps a topic for another thread?

TOPS30: What is your definition of quality? IMHO it is mainly about the range of services. Eg. I even do a different submission each time (each description slightly different, and like 10-20 variable anchors) - for those who know what they want.

The problem of quality is 90% about the quality of directories submitted to (and I see why Nicholas only submits to 100 best ones of the 200 or more that are out there) and the quality of the client's site/title/description.

 

I wouldn't openly fix it guys That's a crime in many countries. I just think you guys could be making more out of this since 33 ct is IMO rediculously low.

With quality I mean professionalism in communication and ease of making use of the service. Variety of payment systems accepted, reporting and good submissions with optionally a variety of anchor text etc.

PS if someone starts a new thread I'll cut these posts away in there to get this back OT, sorry!

 

Only submissions to text-based anchor link type directories that allow robots to index them. No redirects. No java no-follow links. No rel=nofollow.

All others are worthless.

 

Thats already done. All the directories in the list are SEO friendly and doesnot involve redirects.

 

Well, what should the hourly rate be?

I figure it takes between 1-5 mins per directory per site when I submit. Let's say 2 mins median. For this kind of thing (fairly simple, but has its nuances) you could maybe get away with $20/hr? $30/hr? 100 directories would take 200 mins = a bit over 3 hours. In which case yeah, $45 sounds incredibly cheap to be honest. I'd be charging at the very least 3x20=$60. It's a boring job, 100 directories is plowing through a lot of crap, and it's time many SEO's (myself included) simply don't have.

If I had a budget, and I felt I could trust them, I certainly wouldn't mind paying $60 or more for that kind of job.

 

2 minutes is way too low estimate IMO. Should be 4 or so IMO. With browsing to it, finding the right category, reading the submission guide just in case there are special requirements, copy pasting pre fab form entries and filing away the auto e-mail 2 minutes is pretty fast IMO.

 

I'm just doing something that takes me incredibly long at the moment, guess maybe even 6 minutes or so. But 2 is also possible in some cases. It is always about what you are after.

Sometimes it is well worth the effort not to list in some extremely crowded category, but submit to another empty one yet related, and that takes a lot of time, often you have to research more trees in the directory to find related subcats. Some subcats are in completely unexpected categories. Sometimes you have to slightly change the descriptions, so that it "feels better" for that category. And so on.

 

you can probably get 150 to 180 one-way static links in one sweep of the directories.

for $100 you are looking at $0.55 to $0.66 a link. Dirt cheap if you ask me. Why drop the price? If your site has the traffic, personally I'd be stepping it up a notch. Can't compete? then fold.

 

Thanks for the info silencer.

I'm not going to increase the price anyway. It will be same for atleast 6 month. Anyway, I'm satisfied with the revenue generated.

Best Regards,
Tuning