Most directories are crap because they do not follow 5 simple rules.

or because their free and don't have the marketing budget to promote it. that's why I never waste that much time these days submitting to free directories as most won't offer any good link juice.

 

i cannot completely agree with that...

i believe most directories would publish submission guidelines. it is upto to the user who reads those guidelines. what i have found is most people who submit give a blank eye to read. All they want in to rush in and submit for free.

Editorial integrity is followed by most of directory owners. i dont think there is any problem with that

unqiue classification of directories depends on script used and editor who proposes the directory structure.

Whats important than quality is maintaining a directory which is spam free sites. Adding high quality sites is possible but for that you need good resources (editors and funding) like dmoz who search www and pick quality sites. Most of directory owners are small scale and want to support themselves in terms of money. The key for this is accepting free submissions on long term basis. but, the real problem is most directory owners look for money to keep their directory atleast alive.

Most of directory owners are themselves editors of directories like dmoz, joeant and skaffe and this shouldnt be a problem for those in directory business.

 

Yes, but I have sites that make no money yet , and I am still going for backlinks. Why should directories be any different?

It just appears that most directories are make a quick buck deals ...

 

That is the big problem so many free directories, what kind of quality you should expect from a free service.

 

What I don't like is the directories which are built on domains such as 3 dash .info's. They truly scare the living daylights out of me.

 

I think the domain name is not important but I agree some domain look scary LOL.

 

I agree that all of the five points go towards making a bad directory.

This one is important, but I'm not so sure that the word "unique" is essential. It matters from a duplicate-content perspective, but not so much for the end user. A description such as "Reviews of blue widgets in Texas. The site includes a forum for the discussion of widgets and widget research" will apply just as well whether this is the first time that description has been used in a directory, or the 100th.

I'm not so sure that those would be my top 5 points, although they are all valid problems with a lot of directories. The QBC tend to put out ones with no very few listings, as well as doing very little in the way of marketing the directory. Those two things are at least as essential as the 5 points mentioned.

 

just published a great informative article in my blog, its the rss fedd link next to my avatar ...

informative opinions, I reckon.

 

remember a lot of them are newbie in this field it takes time to learning something or maybe need trial and error ... i hope i'll be luck with directory business. and keep reading DP for better knowledge for this business

 

I think there is different ways to look at directories , but the decent one is to promote other people s links , yes some submit to get or build pr (backlinks) , some just try to get clicks in , it is all ok I don’t see it wrong to do that , this a network and we all build it by referring and back linking , if you are talking about the quality of the site listed in the directory , I bet you have to talk about the same thing when it come to google and other search engines why do they index such a “weak websites “ witch Is not my words because every website is a creation of it is own master and respecting other people’s work is something good to have , internet is a freedom of creation speak … that does not mean your website does not have something important TO ME that mean you don’t have the rights to live in the network 

I am not against any directory FREE which I prefer them because offering the service for free to publish and list other websites that are not indexed or needed more backlinks ….it is all good ,

 

this is why i mostly approve of niche directories . IMHO there are too many general directories by now , which would become a nusiance in days to come .

 

There are many general directories but there is a lack of quality directories, there is a big demand for high quality directories.

 

If the whole purpose of submitting to a link directory is to build back link, what should directory owner even bother with the 5 simple rules?

No 1. It cost me next to nothing to have a site up
No 2. I can never compete with DMOZ or Yahoo or MSN
No 3. It doesnt hurt me whether the submission is junk or quality. People simply just want backlink. I am merely a pass-thru.

Directory owners/submitters will wake up only when G starting to penalize those with a backlink to a low or pure crap LD. Until then, I think I will still continue submitting to LD, irregardless of their PR.

 

A backlink from a crappy directory is worth next to nothing and or shortly will be worth nothing at all. It is or will be devalued.

 

How is a backlink from crappy directory any better or worse than no backlink at all?

 

a back link is not just for PR (as webmasters think) but it is a Back link to peopl 's website to let visitors to come and visit the website (as simple Webmasters think) and it is a direction to head for more information ( As visitors think) and this is all good as (human beeing should think )

Tv

 

traffic from directories is negligable. Even the bigest nad best, yahoo, dmoz do not provide any meaningful traffic.

 

Thats why most crap directories never get any paid subimissions Only the good ones get paid submissions.

 

Free directories are not “crap” , first of the webmaster who design a web directory just to make money off of it I don’t blame that it is good , but people who chose to make it as free service does not make it “crap” , and I think a lot of free directories are so successfully going on the path of building the big network or what I call the INDEX of the links to the visitors , take for example Dmoz it is free submission but that doesn’t make it “crap”, when you try to compare between free service and paid service there is a lot that you have to take in consideration it all depend on the directory master on how he sees his business will go and what path he should take as a start , start free or start paid they are both good ways , yahoo did start the same thing a small website with preferred link of the master and it was free , but step by step you can see the giant now , I don’t try to follow this path that they did , I made this free directory that you can see in my signature just out of my coding fun time, I have many websites but this is my first directory , thinking of coding it all without other templates or codes it is all home made in max 3 days then it is live for 2 days now and I see already people submitting it after I post it over here and other places , I am coding more features that will help to make it easier more and more and will code the ranking system which will rank the websites that deserve to be visited depend on the keywords to show first in the search system , and it is all free and I will keep it that way but that doesn’t make it “crap”, I could make it paid with featured listing and more other features but still free directories are not “crap” .

Thankx
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