hi i plan to create a webhosting directory and i need your opinion about the categories that i have to include will be free directory (no recip) and will allow deep links i will use an aged domain name with PR
Hi 1) Search for other "hosting directory" or "web hosting directory" on Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask etc.. 2) Make a graph of all categories from 4, 5 or 10 hosting directories you find. 3-A) Now, choose only those categories that all other hosting directories have, leave those categories that you have seen on 1 or 2 directories. 3-B) Also, You can see which categories has more listing by submitters, so you want to add those categories for sure. 4) Join the web hosting forums and start posting helpful information to others with your signature links so all other hosting company would be there too and they will see your directory to advertise their hosting websites. 5) submit your site to social bookmarking 6) now, find/search for: "hosting directory list" "web hosting directory list" "webhosting directory list" "Free hosting directory list" Once you find this list, make sure to advertise there. 7) If you liked our suggestion, you can advertise your site at our "List of website hosting directories" 8) You need to change <title>Free Web Hosting</title> to "Free hosting directory, add URL, submit a site" and make sure to add "Keyword Meta tag" I hope this suggest with help you for your success,
hdtvchris, I'd visit forums that talk about the issues related to web hosting and study the posts like "I need a webhost for this...anyone have any suggestions?" I would think that would point you into the right direction as to categories. The problem I see is that many hosts provide so many options that you either would have to give them listings in multiple categories or put them into categories by alphabet and then allow searching by all the things folks want in a host. I don't mean to discourage you in any way but I think you might want to consider organizing the site differently than the typical directory or allow each site to be listed in several places. And whatever you do, don't make your directory so complicated that the listings are 11 levels deep, like our oh so helpful spamming friend.
@cm2010 i dont talk about my free host directory, thanks for your ideas @ YMC you are in my mind, the problem is that hosts have many options and thats makes the categories complicated the idea is to try to make a quality directory, not only for the hosts but for visitors too
Yes, I had earlier started to answer one way and realized quickly how complex it could become. Seems to me the only way to make it truly user friendly is to cross post many of the listings. The trick with that is not making all of the pages have essentially the same content. I suppose you could offer each host up to three listings in three different categories as long as each one has a unique description - that would provide more info for users as well as give you more content. That way the hosts themselves define what features of their offerings are most important and they would probably know best what people want anyway.
Keep in mind that that "aged domain" and "PR" will most certainly disappear in time if its associated with anything other than when or where it earned that PR in the first place. So the overall benefit you seek may be short lived for you and your submitters.
What is the deal with "free" in your sig. domains? Are you going to list only Free hosting stuff in your directory? fastreplies
@ YMC i may offer multy category listing @ MIA the domain with the PR that will use for the directory is a hosting blog so is relevant @ fastreplies the free host dir on my sig is different project, i talk for a new dir for pay webhosting the problem is most hosts offer way too much options, from cheap hosting plans to dedicated servers to email hosting and this make hard for me to find the right categories for my dir
How is it relevant? When the content and links begin to change and google notices that, bye, bye PR...
you should include category like Dedicated hosting, shared hosting, virtual hosting, server hosting, application hosting...