First you have to Buy Links from us (from all those who posted here) . Seriously, you have to improve your directory by promotion, marketing, quality link buying (a lot of it). There is more to that than just making money instantly or you'll end up scrapping it out.
Omi, there are some nice tips in your post thanks. Can you describe more about yur experience with TLA? I want to join them and would like to get some tips about them! For example, howshould i decide on the price of the links? What price do you suggest for a site having 300+ content and PR5? Do you charge low to sell links?
Less than 100 for my free directory - sold few featured links only.. Other paid directory receiving 0 submission
Casperl - TLA decide how much links on your site will go for. I have been working on my directory for nearly 2 years now. The script is custom as is the template. You need to put in a lot of work to make any return. Putting up PHPLD clones is not going to help anyone, in the long run it will probably hurt to directory industry. You will soon realise that reviewing 100's of submissions each day quickly becomes a chore. A directory is like most sites in that you have to put in the effort, the uniqueness and stick with it for the long haul.
Hmm, is it really like that. May be we are talking about wrong services. I am not talking about CPC advertising, i am talking about link sales on your sites. Do we just submit our site and wait for their price?
Thats right TLA works by you submitting your site, a price is then decided by TLA. With TLA you are selling a text link for a month. You can use their link ad calculator to see how much you could get.
TLA pays me $85/mo. now. Even though some of the niches are NOT popular at all, they managed to sell links off my site. But I'm afraid, those link brokers won't last too long. It's been very competitive, so the prices will drop - good news for advertisers though. Your site has to have PR3 or more. They usually don't accept PR2 or lower sites regardless of heavy traffic even though they supposedly consider alexa ranking... After all it's all about PR, AGAIN.
umm I think I sell about 6 links. All of the pages are PR4. You can set the number of links you want to sell at the control panel. I set to 4, so I only sell 4 links on a page now. For other pages, I set 4 also. Hey, I must tell you that those pages are not directory pages. I have some niche directories that has bunch of PR4 and PR5, so they are very targeted to the specific keywords. I think it's harder for a general directory to make money via TLA, but I am sure if you got a high PR page to offer, they will take it. Make sure let YOU choose to who you want to sell links, otherwise they can put so irrelevant link on your site. TLA sometimes doesn't do a good job.
I vote less than $100, with $0 promotion so far. I have a PR6 website, so by linking from this website, my directory have PR4 and PR5. I just signup TLA, their calculator estimate to have $170/mnt Sound good, but currently no link from TLA ... still waiting ...