My experience about good free directories And Bad Directories

Hello Forum Member:

After submitting on free directories. I have some experience on good free directories and bad directories that you should not submit your site to.

For example:

A free directory that has a name like ukbi.com or awsb.com, these such directories are not good and usually end less than a year or so.

A free directory that has a name like linkfree.com or submitdirectory.com, these are good directories that you can submit your site to.

I am not sure if my experience is right or not.

Thanks.

 

I've seen the same thing. What I see happen with a lot of the "asdf" type directories is that they start out as a free directory then after they get into all the various directory lists they change their site to a spam site. They end up as nothing but ads. Your example of aswb.com shows what they end up as.

Take a look at oayv.com and you'll see a directory that hasn't converted yet. Look at the bottom of the home page for a big list of crap directories run by the same people.

 

Thats incorrect, its nothing to do with the name.

Apart from cases like:

Someones just bought a domain with pr called dogsandcatsbreeds.com and puts it up as a directory and advertises it with pr, usually with a "submit to this new pr5 general directory"

If a directory is called qrsy.com i dont see a problem with that, its not going to influence its life length as a directory.

Added Something worth thinking about is theres a ton of directories out there that are appropriately named and been around 2 or 3 years but they may as well be dead as they are long abandoned and that type is no better than one that turns into a blog or a parked page.

An abandoned but still up directory is probably a bigger waste of your time because not only will it have approaching 50k pending but its probably harvesting emails to spam you later.

 

That's the point. Take a look at oayv.com and you'll see there are 29k pending links. Then look at some the directories it links to from the home page. Again tens of thousands of pending links.

jennypretty has a good point that 4 characters of junk for a url is a good sign of a low quality directory. Take a closer look at it before you submit.

 

I disagree thats what im trying to explain above, its not down to the url being a 4 letter domain of random letters.

 

I don't think the actual domain name matters totally but the likelyhood is that a domain which is a 4 letter domain (for example) will not be a directory or even online too long.

Of course this can happen with all domains but I think in the vast majority of cases it will be with these domains.
They are dropped domains picked up for pr..when the pr drops so does the interest in the site and they go offline or remain untouched

 

IMO the domain is not most important,
If you don't receive any spam emails from these free web directories,
It's very good.

 

I don't think the domain name has any direct correlation however, I do think that first impressions are important and I beleive that it's more of a perception issue. I have to admit when I see a acbd, wxyz domain, in the back of my mind I have doubts or wonder what the owner was thinking choosing the name.

 

I dont think there should be a doubt at all
if I have a directory called r8dUSU.com do you really think I chose it because it was a brandable name for a directory?
It would have been picked because someone saw it on a drop list and bought it, nothing else.

 

My position is simple... If it is FREE then I have no right to complain no matter how long it "lives". Considering it only takes 15 to 30 seconds to submit what right do I or anyone else have to yang about how long you get a free link?

 

I do not think that is right

 

True. If one is simply looking for free links then I suppose a link is a link and you can't complain.

I do think however, responsible directory owners should have some sense of responsibility and concern for the health and vibrancy of the "industry". Many of these dropped domain, WXY, flash in the pan directories contributes to a perceived, if not sometimes deserved, bad reputation.

 

Some directories are just being tested by the owners anyway, they hear from someone that they can make money from them so set up one or more, once thet realise its not that easy they move on, its natural to have some passing through temp directory owners.

I guess you could call them tasters

Directory tasters, a new silly internet term invented by me today, all rights reserved.

 

The domain name matters for ease of use for your visitors to remember it so they come back to your site.

As far as directories go, ones with a manual approval process that only except websites that have quality. Sites that have quality are those with unique content based on the category it's placed.

Pretty easy.

 

Interesting. While the domain name itself does not determine a directory's quality, it can certainly provide you with clues.

A few warning signs regarding directory names:

(1) When the general web directory has a domain name like www.guitarheroforum.com and it has PR, it's obviously is a dropped domain. It's just a fool trying to scam a few bucks off of people that don't realize what he's doing. Can you say QBC?

(2) When the general web directory has a name like www.web-directory-free.info. These long hyphenated names on .info or other non-dot-com extensions are usually registered by people that build dozens or even hundreds of quick directories...usually hoping to sell them later. QBC strikes again.

(3) When the directory name and/or the design is extremely similar to another well known directory (or other popular sites like Google or Wikipedia, etc..), just don't even bother submitting. Anyone trying to piggy back off of another site's popularity is clearly not serious about their website. And many of these sites will have legal problems down the road due to trademark and copyright infringements. So avoid sites that have names like www.deemoz.org (especially if there are green, use a lizard as a logo, and use the DMOZ rdf dump).

 

Someones just bought a domain with pr called dogsandcatsbreeds.com and puts it up as a directory and advertises it with pr, usually with a "submit to this new pr5 general directory"

If a directory is called qrsy.com i dont see a problem with that, its not going to influence its life length as a directory.


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I think this name assumption holds true for certain forum members...

Going back to directories: 'estimating' the quality of a given directory is as easy as judging what any other site is worth: one look is enough to figure it out. I wouldn't go by names only.

 

yes u are right, free dir but good high pr will be helpful

 

I agree with most of have said that the name is good indicator of the the site's longevity and quality.

 

well think about it..
you are thinking of a name of a directory..and you come up with... qrsy?
its the people who are picking up dropped domains who are ending up with these domains
tbh I cant believe im even trying to make anyone see this its so obvious