How do you keep traffic coming to your directories?

Do you continuously advertise? Do your visitors return? I would expect not, but I could be wrong. Do you get a lot of traffic from the SEs?

Thanks!

 

I get quite a bit of traffic for www.frogengine.com and www.mikedammann.com from search engine listings, mainly thru individual frogengine pages being ranked for terms related to the categories.
Also a few month ago type in traffic started kicking in. People are emailing me telling me how their kids love searching on a search engine with frogs

 

Wow that's really nice Mike , i love your frogs too !

To the question about traffic, if you have a free directory and you do things right with it you should not worry about traffic.
If you have a paid directory the way to get traffic is to buy links on other sites

 

We advertise on related sites. Most commercial directories do, I think.

www.searchenginejournal.com is a top referrer, as is v7n forums. My blog also sends good traffic, and various affiliates.

 

If it is free submit to free directory lists

 

John on your recent post on “how to make $50,000 month on a directory”, you write that you changed your campaign to target more companies and less webmasters.
Can you give some insight on what strategies, mediums you use for this?
Also if possible what strategies give the better conversion ratio.
Thanks

 

On search engine journal i see the following directories:

- Best of the web
- Aviva
- SEODex
- Rubber Stamped
- Wow Directory
- V7n Directory
- Sevenseek
- Umdum
- Alivedirectory

I wish i was advertising those websites, at least you don't have to worry about relevant/quality linking!!!

 

With no advertising at all, I get about 500 uniques a day. All comes from search engine traffic.

 

I know your modesty, and while you won't post a link to it, i will Blog Directory p0w!

 

Damn! now I can't use the "No advertising" scheme!

 

well... technically you're not advertising

 

Google sends me about 30% of webmaster traffic, the other 70% comes from bookmarks, offshore links, etc.
All I have to do is to keep them happy

 

An0n just love your Avatar very well done, the coolest Seven Seek Avatar around.
Just hope this Avatar craziness stops soon is very hard to identify DP members now.

 

hahaha Thanks.

I asked Jeff if he would mind if i gave i a more x-mas and comical feel to it and he let me do what i wanted

 

The frog Engine...

Well, in my country Frog == Sapo

If you go to sapo.pt you'll see the biggest ISP and search engine in Portugal.

 

Their Frog looks kinda gay



This one is better heh

 

The engine frog wins hands down, cuz it looks like its ready to pounce.

 

When you say your traffic comes from search engines, what does that mean? Is there a way to submit to search engines and then create the buzz elsewhere to have unique traffic pour into your sites?

 

pounce on whom, me ?

 

And it has been designed by Corena, one of the best members DP ever had