Free Web Index - Even with Reciprocal it costs $39.95!

Can somebody please shed some light on how a directory can have FREE in the title and domain name and charge the following without a free listing available even though they try to pass it off in No.2 of their guidelines.

www . freewebindex .com/


1. Featured Links $69.95
2. Regular Links $44.95
3. Regular links with Reciprocal $39.95

Or is the title aimed at the normal public telling them they can visit their website for free.

Please excuse my ignorance...

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it's common, just like you can register .co.uk domains even you are not uk residents.

 

nothing wrong with that if the site caters to uk market.

 

I am not sure there is a relevance between UK domains and misleading the public and webmasters of what a directory really is!

We own UK domains because 1. we are from the UK, 2. our market is for the UK and 3. as mhamdi stated, if you cater for the UK.

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Another case of a misinformed directory owner trying to make a quick buck from unwitting webmasters. Try the REAL free index - freeindex.co.uk, they give me traffic month in, month out

 

That site is penalized by google btw.

It has a very good design though, I like it. Not the paid directory I'd submit to

 

Seems like a good example of poor branding in the domain name.

 

That directory belongs to mystikmedia the owner of the so called Alive Directory.

You should have easily got it seeing the cross linking which is still being maintained across all his directories. (one of the main reasons why his entire network was/is penalized.)

Moreover its just poor domain branding as swedal said.

 

I had noticed it was part of the mystik network which is why I had to ask the question itself. Especially since it is coming from a not so long ago top directory network!

 

its ok many people preferes

 

I’m not sure that I believe this was the main reason, one of my directories was hit at the same time and I never used cross linking. More likely for buying/selling PR, charging or encouraging reciprocal is just as bad in my mind.
As for the domain... many people buy a keyword rich domain without thinking of the end product, IE: a paid directory.

Thanks Brian

 

Hey Brian buddy,

I said one of the main reasons... There are a lot of other reasons, one of them you have pointed out on your post.

 

I've seen this bit of gamesmanship in quite a few areas not just directories. Do a search on Google for just about anything and the word 'free' and you will be surprised at how many sites offer absolutely nothing for free. Can't remember what I was looking for the other day but all of the top 10 sites for my search were selling via those single page sales-letter sites.

What was really shameful about the results I saw was more than a few only had the word free in their meta tags.

I am surprised that someone with so much experience in the directory scene should have made such a huge branding mistake or tried to pull such a big sneaky.

 

If I remember well, it is the same owner from alivedirectory.com chdnow.com... and so on. The famous directory network slayed by Google.

 

Its to attract customer to visit their site