Can someone help me? I want to create a business directory website to yield more visitors to my site as well as provide a resource for visitors to find goods and services that they need. I want the site to be similar to the yellow pages, but not as complex. I would just list general information, including a link to the business website, and other contact information such as phone numbers, email with a brief description of the type of business. Eventually, if my site generates enough visitors, I will profit from it by offering extra advertising. I use Dreamweaver CS3 because it's not as time consuming as regular HTML or PHP coding. I would consider myself an intermediate user at that. The site I want to create will allow visitors to "sign-up" on the site to be listed in the directory under a particular category. Once they enter their information, I want to be able to populate that information into the category instantly. I want to be able to track everything too. I hope this makes sense and someone will be able to help me. Please feel free to PM me if you can help. I am looking for some sort of tutorial, or instruction manual/book that will teach me the basics of creating this type of site.
Why not use a script? Check out Alike Directory in my signature,is that something you want to create?
You mean just a site without marketing and promotion? The script cost me $75 and design cost me a few hundred dollars,I also have a few custom MOD's installed..Around $500 I guess,without promotion. I have a few more sites like this one that I'm planning to sell,pm me if your interested.
Having some recent experiences with Wordpress and the customization capabilties it has, I came accross a plug-in that will create a directory page for links. I wonder how easy it would be to tweak this to your needs. http://www.alectang.com/wordpress-link-directory It looks like netvisits.com uses http://www.freephpdirectoryscript.com
Hi I wanna create the directory site, but I don't understand how to start. If you have any tutorial or any website which guides to create the dir site please do share. i am waiting for replay
Hey dude i have my own online business directory named callingbook.com. i am very proud of making this website . I Have given many features that make my web site the Best. Hope that can help you
I'm building a directory also. The places I'm seeing to get business listings are at sites (e.g., yellowpages.com) which warn against using their information (data mining). How are you finding your business listings? Thanks.
Directories are so overplayed in my opinion. Its the standard revelation of SEO's when in the early years of discovering SEO they assume they can make a directory website and get links within it from keyword similar sites to build reputable site and have it point back to their own site. That's why there are 'shfiffity-five billion and a heif' Directories on the web now. between 1998 and 2001 webmasters then were making directories and charging businesses a directory fee. That fizzled and Yahoo took over the Business Directory system for probably that reason and is the only reputable Business Directory given any GOOGLE rank score in the Google logarithm anymore. A directory pointing to your site looks like a link-farm to Google these days. If you create one I wouldn't spend any cash on it and use it to teach yourself scripting language like PHP/SQL with. Simple process. Create a script that pulls all info from database and displays it with a do/ while or foreach. It will display all business directory info. Then a Register page that allows users to enter info and submit it via form. It would be inserted intot he records of SQL database and now be recalled in the regular display area. The database info could be made to list the directory in alphabetical order. That's it for a site like that.