Do's and Don't of Building a New High Quality Directory

Thanks. We'll see how it goes. I need to understand the content visitors are looking for and deliver. I think the rest will follow. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Rich

 

I have to be honest, I'm not sure that the average person will be associating the domain name "Links.com" with high quality content. I'll be checking you out to see how well you can manage that one.

Frankly, I fear that might just be one domain that's begging for trouble. "Links.com". I would imagine most people will be going there for "links" rather than "content."

In any event, good luck with your project.

 

You are right. I'll be providing links to high quality sites with some extras such as news, blogs, ratings, reviews, site descriptions. It might sort of work. But we shall see. Thanks for your encouragement.

Rich

 

While many may not associate it with high quality content the short url thats actually a "word"
will be worth its weight in gold to someone whom seeks the url name.
Take for instance the domain pizza.com that sold for 3 million a few years back...


Off the wall stats for those that think that directories are a waste of time
take a sneak peak at this http://www.clickforensics.com/Pages/ClickFraudIndex.aspx

thx
malcolm

 

Click Fraud? did you post the correct link Malcolm?

 

Hello...

Actually i was re-enforcing what i had mentioned above

"Many will question whether submitting to a directory is worth the time...
I suppose that you will have to ask that question to those that are sitting in the top 10 spots for
their keyword rich titles if it was worth the time submitting to directories compared to the PPC campaigns
that are growing more expensive every day with no guarantees of a sale or traffic."

Sorry to go of topic.... just found it interesting


thx
malcolm

 

I see what you mean now, yeah its a good point actually.

 

Hi Malcom,

I would be shocked if anyone associated links.com with high quality content, since it does not exist at this time. But I am trying to find the right niche and the right content so that this may come to pass. For lack of any better ideas, and because my organic traffic revolves around entertainment, I thought that a high quality site that has reviews, ratings, blogs, and news of entertainment sites might at least be worth a trial. There are other niches I am thinking about, but this would be the first one that I will try to develop. I want to specialize in topics that have international interest (since my traffic comes from all over the globe), is attractive to the younger crowd (who are always looking for new sites), and topics that are fresh.

I am hoping that this works. If not, ....

Thx for your comments.

Rich

 

Actually it is not . That the pcc industry has a level of fraudulent activity is, on its own, not a good reason reason to use another industry who is populated by a vast (and ever growing) number of cyber snake oil merchants.

The reality is that apart from a infinitesimal minority these directories have no value to the searching public and what little traffic these directories get they is from webmasters promoting their sites, or search engines crawling their pages to work out if further penalties or devaluations in serps are required.

In such an environment poor gullible webmasters who have parted with their money are are wondering where the benefit is. How often is the answer provided by kindly directory owners in the form of manual, or automatic referrals from their directory. In a world where pay for inclusion directories are desperately trying to justify their existence I would suspect that referral fraud by directories is endemic.

Recently an employee of cantufind even admitted that this sort of thing happens.

 

You have a great domain.
You can do well with that site.

 

Thanks for the encouragement. I hope that the niche directory does form a good base for increasing traffic to the site.

Appreciate the comments.

Rich

 

I agree with others.. Nobody will pay you for a nofollow link nowadays. "IF" each of your directory pages get 1000+ pageviews a day and it leads to 'some' clickthrough, that's only when they would realize the payment's worth.

Do announce the directory in 'solicitations' forum when you launch it

 

Yes I agree. My objectives are different. My primary objective is to increase traffic to the site. I would like to eventually get revenue from ads and possibly paid directory entries. But it is important for my site to stay within Google guidelines in order to get the SERP and the traffic from the SERP.

I am not sure it is possible to drive traffic to a directory. Some sites have been very successful. I am trying to find the right formula.

Thanks for the comments. And I will announce when I am ready.

Rich