how do you promote or market your directory? What is your advice and tips you would offer? Any minimum budget you would recommend? I have a plan to market my GoSubmit directory, looking for advice from directory owners.
Well last month i started my bidding directory. www.zorg-links.com is the site. I go to all other bidding directory sites, and buy a link so it is shown in the top 10. any visitors to those sites may see my link and come buy a link at mine. next you need to look no further than here. DP is great for getting sales. this directory forum can bring good traffic, just try write some useful posts and pop your link in there. Post updates or any changes to your site in the announcements forum, that will help bring traffic. I also sponsored lots of templates, like wordpress themes. So far i spent over $1500. Next go add the site in your signature, that too brings traffic. Blog posts is another way. go to the link sales forum, and buy some blog posts. anyone reading these posts will visit your site. as for banner ads, i have yet to give that a try. i have not bothered with any text link promotion, such as text link ads or google adsense. not sure how useful that would be. Mike
First focus on increasing its PR, so buy several high PR links. After you get at least PR5, start promoting it. Promoting a PR3 directory would not bring you good ROI.
It's tough so it needs to be continuous 365/24/7 You may ask why I say that, well thats easy that is what we do and we still find it very tough to compete, the top Directories just promote & promote, then they promote again It takes time a lot of time too
But of course, after a certain amount of time. Sit back and relax heh. But i wouldn't do that for a good few years.