Hello Directory Owners community on DP, My blog has been updated with a new post - Interview With A Directory Owner Who Has 50+ Directories. Here is the sneak preview ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How many directories do you own? One directory, two, three, maximum five? Since directories require a lot of hard work, most members of the directory business do not own a lot of directories. Owning a lot of directories requires time, resources and more importantly owner’s skills and experience in the directory business. A friend of mine, Malcolm, owns more than 50 directories. Yes, you are reading this right, he has more than 50 directories! When I got to know it, I was very fascinated about the fact. In my mind, I thought that he knows something which helps him to run all his directories and thus I can learn something from him. I asked him a few questions, which helped me to understand the directory business better and thus will be useful to you as well. Here is the interview, I had with him: Q: First of all, introduce yourself to Directory Kit’s audience. A: Hello … My name is Malcolm. I am thirty six years old resident of PHX, Arizona USA. Q. What got you into making your own directories? A: I started out in 2000 as a Landscape Superintendent doing all the new major freeways in PHX, including the 101 and 202 as they were just being built and has been growing now for more then seven years at a steady pace. I’ve been in the directory business a little over a year and a half now since I started with my first site. I liked the idea of working on websites as the web is getting bigger and the possibilities are to an extent endless and wanted something I could enjoy doing and hopefully make a carrier out of it. Well, my first site was built in February 2006, and I did not know anything about SEO or for that matter how to get it were it would attract visitors or customers till I ran into a website explaining that i had to get backlinks and reciprocal partners for my website to be seen or even recognized in Google and Yahoo search rankings. I soon joined and started using tools and learned the basics, then I started submitting to the search engines and web directories that were available at that time. I believe that one of my first encounters were Thales Directory as well as Abilogic, Gongee and a few others. Needless to say it wasn’t long before I found a web directory forum (vilesilencers) and started submitting and becoming more and more interested at how they functioned and soon decided to build one. Q: What do you think is a quality directory? A: My view of a quality web directory is one that can offer its clients a fair and honest service that has the potential to raise their search engine rankings higher, and that offers the newest technology, design and trusted owner behind it. As for PR that comes in two ways - Time & Money. Q. What was the hardest part in establishing your directories? A: Time & Money are always going to be your toughest obstacles in anything you do, but with some hard work and effort a person can establish himself relatively fast online within a couple years in most cases and if someone plans and budgets resources correctly, then sooner. I would say a few are actually established as they are my oldest and strongest 5 directories. We are waiting to see what this PR update will bring as a few more will be made PR 5 and hopefully a few are shown some love and given PR 6. -------------------------------------------------- Here are 4 questions out of 12, to read full article please click here. Don’t forget to leave comments, to show your appreciation of this interview. If you are a directory owner and want to be interviewed then please contact me.
Nice interveiw slashpix and malcolm. Both of you deserve green for this. BTW when i saw thread title 'Interview With A Directory Owner Who Has 50+ Directories' then only person come in my mind (of course he is malcolm)
Nice interview Slash, thanks for taking the time. And way to go Malcom...will be following the progress of your directory network very closely
Slashpix: Nice website - good interview - Respect Malcolm: Great angle. I notice that you have chosen to run a large chain of directories as I have, although you have been a little more consistent in your development... I took a break after directory number 16 or 17. Now I am getting ready to get going again (just made number 18 after a development break of a few months). I especially liked to see that you too have had difficulties with TLC'ing that many directories... there is a short time needed for setting up one directory completely, but then you can spend forever trying to develop the right amount of back linking... Anyway, great interview. Thank you! /miko67
Thumbs UP Slashpix I really like your way of interview. Malcolm is among those who really inspire me and it’s always good to know a little more about them. Keep it up mate.
Excellent interview. Thanks to both of you. But my hunger for Malcolm was not fully satisfied with that. Still want to know how on earth he can feed so many mouths where-as I am having problem with just 4 Waiting to hear more from you Malcolm- in the near future.
nice stuff. well done malcolm. does your 50 dirs keep you each month? or do you still have another job?