Hi, To start with I am not a experienced person in developing and promoting a directory. it all start when i bought a new directory site around 1 year back. I bought this directory "http://devdir.biz" and did some link building in the beginning and then forgot about it. Never had the time to check how it's doing and to moderate submitted links. Few months back i even posted it for sale here in sites forum. Luckily there was no takers for it then. So I renewed the domain for one more year. In the last one month or so i had around 4-5 disputes in my paypal account. my paypal account has received 5$ around 16 times in the last couple of months. Those disputes came up because people had payed me for featured links. I haven't approved anything for years now. So i was not aware of my directory getting featured submissions. So i had to resolve those disputes by refunding the money. It was just last week I realized what was going on and logged into my directory admin area to find over 50000 links staying unapproved. So just few days back i realized my directory has got a pr-2 and getting paid submissions. It has been getting consistently getting an average of 7000 UV per month. so i thought i will develop this directory and dedicate my time for it. Now I need the help of experienced directory owners to get me started in this and also to review my directory and it's future potentials. I know that i can increase the traffic of my directory by posting it in the "Solicitations & Announcements" forum. After analyzing my awstats i found that majority of traffic is coming from directorycritic and addurl.nu. i want to know if there are more such places where eager submitters can be exposed my directory. Most Important Question Should I be looking for traffic from search engines. If so what should be the keyword that i should be optimizing my directory for SEO. Any valuable suggestions and advices are welcome. with regards Rajanmr [eager to promote my directory]
Im not being funny but before worrying about how you will promote it further, shouldn't you be concentrating on the 50k pending? Because you neglected it for a while you need to get it in order before doing anything else. The link to your about page doesn't work.