Do you think uncle "matt" will take that into consideration when he looks at the content within the directory? I dont think him or his staff is worried about how sexy the directory is rather the other things that make it what it is... though i must agree that a nice template will always be membered for its looks amongst submitters. thx malcolm
Of course. Uncle Matt and his robot friends will not care how dirsty the pub is, just how nice the beer tastes If we forget google, there are many advantages to a custom template
Excellent point, users care about the things on the surface ... like the template. Search engines care about the value your directory provides. A quality directory will cater to both.
I fail to see how the free links he is offering could be considered QBC... Either take the free link or don't... It seems to some are very fast to damn others before knowing what their plans are. If he took your $$$ and didn't deliver, then complain...
hes not QBC really, hes just going the wrong way about things i guess. Paid directory owners dont want him giving the directory market a bad image
Maybe paid directory owners don't want to lose submissions because of too many freebies... however everyone should know by now if you want a quality backlink from a promoted directory you need to pay a review fee. Even so, I will not put my nose up at a freebie I personally have no problem with free links... it only costs me a minute per directory.
Can I ask a question ? Is this a good directory or not ? Its a Free Directory with No Template and You be the Judge. Web Directory Please and an Honest Opinion. Thanks
I see a template... though im not exactly sure i would list it being that its a geo-cities on free hosting but thats me... I guess each will have his opinion but its just my personal view.. Hosting isnt that expensive and i see no reason why anyone would choose this method other then an attempt to save money but in a business is just not adequate. thx malcolm
Thanks Malcolm I appreciate that honest opinion. Anyone else ? Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 7 (5 members and 2 guests) popotalk, jg123, malcolm1, mikey1090, nate_king1, qazu Thanks
I just dont' see your point popotalk, you are comparing apples and oranges. My recent experience tells me when someone comes along building mutiple low quality directories and spends as little money as possible doing so they are really just looking for a quick buck. It happens every week on this forum and I think it gives the directory industry as a whole a bad name.
In your VERY EXPERIENCE Opinion Is that Quality or No. Just give me a straight answer. No pun intended I would like to have an honest if that is a quality site or no. Thanks and appreciate it very much.
The answer is not that simple, quality or no. My feeling is that this is not a well-kept site and could use more work (see my reasons below). I also think it is irrelevant to this thread. I know it has been around for a while and I have links to some of my older directories in it. The page says it has not been updated since Jan. 2007 so that tells me it is not very current. The listings should be categorized better because there are what appears to be hundreds of links on just a few pages.
It looks like it was a good directory at one time but now it has some link rot and the categories need to be cleaned up. Would I list it? Probably, but I'd check it periodically to see if the owner is putting work into it or if he's abandoning it. If it seems abandoned, I'd dump it at some point. I have no problem with it being on a free host.
i have a staff of 5 persons (including me) working with me daily on my directories to get the traffic, Backlinks and accept / rewrite the submissions. but i could certainly handle 60 directories alone if didnt own 370+ other websites and domains, and once again SERPS + Traffic/PR is all what customers want, people will submit to 1000+ directories to achieve that, and i personally believe that 50 to 60 directories are enough when building links, so instead of paying $20 to $50 per directory to have a link in 50 or 60 good directories, i created my own directories on different ips, with different designs, built them backlinks one by one, never interlinked them in anyway, those are totaly independant directories, Now, this is really funny, now because unlike you am giving a real Value of to my clients and improving their rankings am manipulating the SERPS. and the PR is not even a factor in my service. infact since they are 4 months old they didnt even get the visible pr since the google update didnt happen yet. i have 3 top Seo companies using my service every day, and The only thing that their clients need to know is that they are now beating their competitors. it matters when u have 100 .info duplicated sites witht he same script and content, but When you have unique directories with different designs, different content (links and descriptions), different ips and you set your whois to anonymous (WHOIS Domain Name Privacy), then there is no problem. as for me being associated to this .info "directories" project is really an insult. to me and to all the owners of directories and real directories networks, personally i sptent thousands of dollars on this project, built it from scratch, am giving a real proven value to my clients and i can name at least 5 persons here who own top quality and legit directories networks. u got it all wrong again, u are trying to get traffic for your tools and make ur clients work on ur directory , but a quality directory is meant to send traffic to the client and improve the Serps of the client. BS, Ahority means that you are a Top player or that you even rule your industry and are linked from very relevant websites that are authoritative in nature too. I was talking about "Quality" not only SEO and A unique Design means that the owner is serious about his directory and ready to invest and work on his project to delivere a real value to his clients. its a very strong sign of quality. Not only PR is definitely a SEO factor but The More the pr on a page is important, the more the page gets crawled by the spiders and so the clients websites. Actually i work mostly with SEO companies and i dont have to rewrite anything since they give me different Descriptions and different anchor texts. i really dont mean to be rude, but i must say they u are very confused and have no idea what is quality directory, a quality directory is a directory that gives traffic maximum link juice to the users (for SEO purposes). this is only an advice forget your tools and build a strong athority directory Romow, Aviva, Alive, Biz-king, Forplex just to name a few.. and boy for the love of god forget about your tools, u have absolutly no idea about what is a directory that delivere a value to its clients, its not about tools or mods it about Traffic and Serps. I never gave you any red reps, its not worth -1 Bye.
Ok .... so tell me is this quality or not... http://www.cavemanscrib.com/Two.html heheheh just found it lol laterz malcolm
Opinions are like (_o_), although with 360 sites yours looks more like (_[]_). Trusting SEOs to give you unique content is foolish, just run some descriptions through copyscape and see what kind of company you keep. Traffic finds their way into my directory via the SERPs and comes back because of the awesome tools. I've got hundreds of users that have registered in ~ 6 months. PR has little to do with the frequency of a crawl. If you spend 1000's of dollars they you overpaid, buy yourself a good programmer and start making some real sites. Authority is spelled like that and does not come the way you are saying it does boy? you better feel again! I'm into personal shots and can take it like a man but saying my directory contains no real value is a farce. I'd love to compare compliments and see how many people have asked for your script, ooh wait, it's right out of the box isn't it! We have very different ideas on many different things. We can go round and round if you want but why don't you open another thread and invite me there rather than hijack this one ... woops too late, sorry people.
Though my primary language is not English I can distinguish what's an apple and whats an orange. But can you distinguish an Adobo from a Lumpia to a Siomai ? It is true and its not a well kept one. Sure. I was asking since if someone sees a site like that would you jump into it ? Knowing that the surface is of low quality ? Though the listings are not updated it has some rich content that most others don't. If it was updated on a regular basis that site could be one good resource. It's FREE and would not be a QBC. The owner tried his best to categorized the links in his own way. Maybe better than just a category dump. And other QBC's that makes a Web Directory getting some links, building a little bit traffic, selling some featured or regular and after a year abandoning it. That site makes it more respectable than QBC's. Just needs a regular update. hehe Malcolm what is that site all about i see A Cavemen Can Do It Easily but whtas his message ? Nice design though.