Hey Guys, I have 40 directories - I guess you'd call them, Swicki's - is anyone familiar ? Well eurekster - the company that own and run them (or host them for free) call them a Swicki directory / search engine. I have several Questions : A) How much should I charge to list peoples sites in them / the swickis ? B) How do I market them ? About the Swickis, I will give you examples from my best performing Swicki, so you have more information to judge the worth and value. This is my Big Brother Swicki/Directory. (has some adult content - I do apologise) Now it has over 2000 uniques and searches per day: This Picture is of the top performing results/searches mainly from Google direct links. This is the estimated worth etc. done by Swicki Team , unfortunately I can't have adsense running because of the content within - when I did I was making a lot of dough. This is the daily averages of uniques/searches daily - mainly from direct Google Links. Now the spec's from Google : The Number of Indexed Pages. (click) The Pagerank specs (click) Pages with PR within search results and tags. (Click) many pages within aren't listed here, but as you can see the (some of the) internal pages have PR2. How much do I ask for : A) submission into the Swicki when I submit a link to 35 pages / results - that's how many pages I can submit into for each individual URL. B) How do I market these Swickis ? C) How much do I charge ? D) Anyone interested in marketting for me ? Please remember that I have 40 of these, the above sample is the most productive and busiest at this moment, the other 39 have PR as well and aren't all adult. Thanks and I hope this makes sense and isn't to confusing. Jason.
? so you have a directory worth 95K and you want to know how to run 40 of them and prmote them with 3 K visitors a day ?
Yeah 95k LoL - I can only wish. I can manage 40 and doing OK. I just want some advice or help promoting them ie. selling submissions to DP members and the public. 1) How to properly explain to people, that's the toughest thing - ppl just don't understand the value or worth of having 35 one way links on these. 2) How much to charge people for 30-35 submissions into each one. And basically marketting them. 1) set up a site to sell and explain them on. 2) I don't know that's why I want some feedback or help.
I am not too clear on exactly what it is you plan to offer but I don't think a link in every one would be good for most people. Folks would be interested by topic. I would promote the ones in a similar niche together.
Yeah I have a link in my sig. where I grouped specific neiches together and I was trying to sell a submission into 6 Swickis for a total of 200 links for $10. I though 5cents a link into each search/page was a decent offer. (considering the amount of pages with PR.) So that's what I was planning and even attempted to offer. Maybe I could do some free or cheap offers first and get some reviews for my service ? Do you think that would work better ?
Mate your an Aussie, and we don't have darn swikis or whatever they call them, so that term needs to be tossed out. find suitable directories to advertise in per neiche as jg123 suggested, but as said its hard to see clearly what you want to achieve. it baffles me when people say i have 40 directories, xyz views but how do i drive it. but from what i am reading i am confused, so maybe a quiet sit down before doing anything to clarify exactly what it is you want and the best plan then to achieve this before just running around trying to sort stuff that may not work.
So these swicki are hosted by another company, sort of like having a free blog on blogspot? Meaning they can terminate or take away your account and all your swicki's at anytime they feel like it? Also your traffic is also a bit suspect, you state your traffic is purchased and then you are also going to re-sell it? Just sounds a bit strange and overall confusing.
Yeah that's right, I have permission for adult junk and spoke to them several times, they allow us to monetize them and/or sell them at anytime - you can see in the above sample pic. the value etc. That's what it is there for. Nah all traffic to these Swickis comes from Google or Links on my sites, or where I have the Tag Cloud on my sites.
if thats worth 90 k im comin up to QLD and helpin you smoke some green that multiplier is 10 years not 10 months so it should be X . 8333 to give 10 months and even then thats a big call for what i am seeing, i would be lucky to pass over 1 k for that ste , for less i could make a better one in months
Yup maybe their script is smokin some LoL. That's just the default settings, they must be trying to get us excited. I don't or wont argue with that, presentation is lacking, I really need to work it over, but I am limited with my time and focusing elsewhere. Hence why I am opening this thread - I want some advice, help, possible make over (of sites) etc.
Oh, because you mentioned in your thread "I have purchased some". Anyways I guess the traffic would be ok if it was being redirected to a similar site. Does you music site get much traffic? Please rank your sites in order of traffic, I might try some. thanks
OK I will take a screen shot for you of all the daily search graphs. I will add it to the original post / sales page here at DP. If you want I can give you a cheap price and then see how it goes for you, in exchange for a quick review on the thread, maybe that'll help me out. Located here (<<<URL)
Sorry I overlooked that reply, That's a little tricky, as Swicki is what they're called by the Company. Well I am trying to sell submissions into them, thus giving the webmaster a handful of links and boost their search engine results. I know how to drive it, when I want I can increase the traffic to them imediately, that's what I have achieved, I am just searching for an alternative way to boost my earnings and help others boost their results in Google etc. I am after a way to market them. I have tried to, it's a confusing and new site/widget in Beta mode, I am sure of the plan or what I want to achieve, just wanted some help, tips, advice etc. on how to do it and to see if someone had new ideas.
There are thousands directories being created each week, and only a handful of them are of quality. Usually people who submit to these sites try to weed out the "link farms" (spammy directories). Just the term "Swicki" which sounds like quicky, makes me think spam! I recommend you to read up on some directory discussions here in this forum, and learn a bit on the industry. Hopefully, you will be able to make some better decisions based on your readings.
Yeah I will do, I wasn't sure if it's classed as a directory or search engine. I've always used them for my sites and had good results in search engines. Swicki is actually meant to mean : S = Search or Search Engine Wicki = Wikipedia (community type of project). So the two combined are supposed to mean : A search Engine that's managed by it's community members and efforts combined. The community part is because members can add a site manually to each keyword or tag for approval or recomendation, also the voting options that are in place ie. Digg style voting.