How to make a Google Approved Paid Directory - Guide

I researched on this topic alot and thought i should blog it out, the whole story is here: How to make a Google Approved Paid Directory.

Lemme know your thoughts.'
Oh by the way i'll be releasing a modded version of WP/PHPLD that works pretty much like Yahoo! Dir.

 

Not really relative as Mr G do not own the Directory Market

Did not read or look at the article as they are not involved in our sector

 

Well i will throw a spanner in the works and say a lot of of that article is just one persons view, not wrong or right, but for me if that was the the front page of the paper i would not buy it.

 

Well, i never said that it did in the first place hehe.
And i say why have that little piece of disapproval at all?
So i did the research if i am going to make a directory it should be indexed by every search engine out there

Just a little something to make a perfect circle.

By all means if you don't support google, don't.
But atleast im not here complaining about how google is being unfair to directories, i'd rather find a way to make it work.
And whatever i post is not just "my view" its all the information and results i have from my experiments.

 

Everyone takes the whole Google subject a little too seriously, the purpose of this post was that why leave out google, why not have both Google authority and the clients?

I am not saying google is what makes or breaks a directory, its just another way of getting relevant traffic, and by saying that "i don't need google" you are leaving out a huge portion of relevant traffic.

Clients want links from relevant pages and traffic, Google wants relevant content, not that much to spread yourself on tbh.

And the basic message was to add more relevant content, and have more percentage of the content then the the paid links, ofcourse if the right links are in the right places they will get the ctr they deserve. And that most directories as said by many people, are link farms, adding more relevant content with a few tweaks can cut the whole "spam" look out of a directory.

 

Perhaps i should clarify, i never said i did not support google, i intend to be google freindly but still do my own thing.

I have never complained about google being unfair, in regards the "view" i then can say it might need some more work as i see a lot of errors or at best alternate options to the post so maybe a wider survey would give a more accurate " View "

NB not personal at you and in discussion of the article only. it is good to get these topics out for discussion and appreciated.

 

Well the only strongest dir i've seen is yahoo's dir, which is why i used it as an example in my post. ( I don't consider dmoz to be of any authority, the only reason it has good serps and a great pr is because of its backlinks )

And lol, i'm not saying that this is the right way, there can be tons more better ways, but the way i've posted on my blog has borderline approval from google.

After looking around alot i thought that gii.in was pretty unique too in matters of content but after viewing the amount of blogs they had on their, i changed my mind it just seemed like a splog to me in all honesty..

@Downunder

Hehe, yep it sure helps to see various points of views on a topic, untill someone shouts out and tries to make an anti-google movement lol.

The only thing i wanted to do with this post is to give an option to webmasters to have some authority in google while selling links on a directory, thats all
Oh and i was planning on another directory so i was doing research anyway so this post came alone in the right time.

 

Well its not spam but its up to a level where there are so many topics that everything seems way too irrelevant, this is a reason why i don't recommend anyone to go for a general niche based directory. (too many topics to cover)

 

No blog or part of content in Gii.in is spam or copied.
Each of the article there is unique and original, the opposite thing to a Splog!

It doesn't seem fair to be called as Irrelevant as a directory just can not be called a directory.. it can be built into a perfect resource with all topics of information covered in it. And this is what is being done at gii

 

So you are saying that with content Google will let you sell links?
Content is very important to any website but there is more than this to be Google approved and that's what I was expecting to read in this thread.
otherwise do I have a "google approved" dir here? http://www.enquira.com/

 

Yahoo! dir has news on the latest politics,tech,celeb not reviews on sites or products.

So it can be classified as Latest News (up to date news posted as it happens)

A splog is a network or a interlinked number of blogs carrying irrelevant or all around kinda topics. Spam isn't always dup-content, it can be irrelevant content as well, although their content is unique its not relevant totally, all the random car and cellphone reviews is what makes it so irrelevant and outdated.

Yes, it will.
A general or usual directory provides nothing else but tons of links and categories to those links, unless you have relevant content to contribute to the g-index your directory is pure unflitered spam.

As for your dir, your pr speaks for itself, if it was unapproved it would be 2,3 or 4.

I'd suggest working on the latest news only and leave out all kinds of reviews on products, also since its a general directory make sure whatever you are adding as content has little or some relevance to the link categories available at your dir, and make sure to link to that category once in that article.

To stay under the radar for spam go with SMM , you'll get atleast 40% relevant traffic through that, don't go buying backlinks until you have some kind of relevant traffic coming in, with that you can easily nail the relevant keyword. (Don't aim for the "web directory" keyword unless you have a 6 figure marketing budget)

To keep it short and sweet: Its a give and take relationship, if you don't have relevant content to offer to google, it won't keep you in its index.

 

I don't think that there such thing as "relevent content" for google. Everything is relevent as it is unique. Google don't have a list of search queries and indexes only content relevent to those queries. If you mean content relevent to the website, even news site can have all sorts of topics in their content.
for enQuira I have 16 top categories, which each one there is a blog of articles associated with it.
example:
category: http://www.enquira.com/health-fitness/
Articles: http://enquira.com/resources/health/

I also have a section for city guides, and more

 

Hello...

Im very curious about this new script

Let me know when its available

thx
malcolm

 

Uh, it does know whether a topic is relevant to its domain or not, you can read through matt cutt's blog if you like, they are highly sensitive about relevancy, if a site is based on "garments" then it should not have topics such as "science of dating" or "webmaster's guide to success" thats one thing and google does have a list of all queries as a matter of fact thats the base of their ranking system, rankings at google are based on relevancy and popularity (relevant links).

Ask any seo online about factors of a great ranking, Relevancy is their top priority.

And if you have top categories, then it does not make the whole site relevant, it just makes the category the center and the rest of the site/directory irrelevant. That just means people are coming in to find out about health and stuff and then they endup looking at links for directories/domains/webmasters/bidding directories, thats one user lost right there.

Hehe, sure no prob it'll probably be free though.

 

I don't think it is a question of giving Google relevant content. We have to give quality content to visitors and attract them to directory by providing information, news, tools or downloads or bottom line big list of quality sites. All of that in combination would be perfect and would be called Yahoo

Don't make sites for Google, make them for visitors and Google will follow. Every business depends of people and not of machines.

I think Gii and Romow are great examples of directories for people.Also, I think there are some more very valuable resources between "penalized" directories, but if they don't give up on adding new content on regular basis they must be back in Google simply because people find them quality.

 

Thats not what i've said in the first place, please read the thread carefully.