Directory owners, i want to know your all views about judging directory’s quality before submitting to one. I have added a few polls, so please try to vote for the best answers and share your views by commenting if you think i missed out something as a factor which you check for judging quality of a directory. Please participate in the poll here - Rate the directory quality factors The main factors that i have focused are - Age Pagerank Alexa Page Strength Design Content Free or Paid Review Directory Owner recognition Feel like i missed out something? Please let me know
You left out my two biggies - adherence to category topic (are there listings that truly don't belong in my desired category) and no spammy sites (lotions and potions junk). Of you list content, design (mainly that it's not an overused default template), and price are the only ones on your list I worry about.
Those are all good points and will be factors in what will be the most important factor overall within 12 months ( my predictions ) That is V Stats ( visitor stats ) this one figure will emcompase all of those mentioned above as the final vote as to how well you have done. Bums on seats moving forward will be the most sought after figure. For me when i start to promote my directory ( soon i hope ) i will not worrying about PR etc etc but will want to look at V Stats and price.
Oh yea DownUnder, price will also be a big matter of concern when considering to submit to a paid directory. And MeetHere, yep Frequent cache indexing is also a good point. I missed it
Hello... Backlinks in Google and Yahoo are a sign of a directory owner whom "promotes" his directory and a reference that it will be around for a while... AGE really is irrelevant as the domain was created 10 years ago and just yesterday became a directory so i dont see it being relevant unless it shows exact date that the domain became a directory. thx malcolm