Should Greenlush.com open a webmaster directory?

Hi there. Right im CEO of Greenlush web hosting, iv been thinking the last few days, should i open a web master directory on Greenlush.com, maybe Directory.Greenlush.com or Greenlush.com/directory.

My good friend AmitPatel_3001, suggested that it may not be a good idea and we should concentrate more on hosting solutions, all though i thought maybe as now we have an affiliate program, i would also like the affiliates to earn commission on directory listings as well. Im sure i could really SEO the directory well as well, get all the inner pages pr5+ and make it a really worthwhile source to be linked on.

Amit made a good point and said Hostgator.com dont have a directory, and i realized wait... Not many web hosts do. Also i didnt mention, if it was going to happen, i sware! it would be the best designed directory you have ever seen well.... It would be quite impressive im sure, lots of AJAX and sexy graphics,

What do you think?

 

You have to of think how much time you will have to spend working on that directory, and how much money promoting it.
Time and money that you would otherwise put into your hosting business.
So if the return on your directory investment is bigger than return on the hosting investment, go for it

 

I think all webhost should have a directory to list the site it host....free.

 

Nice idea
You can give this as extra, to attract more customers.

But I believe that there is a lot more to be improved on greenlush, so you should probably stick to hosting (for now), if you are serious about it.
The industry is so competitive, its crazy!

 

Why on Greenlush ?

Creat a new directory on new domain - have much value than subdomain...
Give a link back from your greenlush.com and thats it.

 

Just make something like greenlushdirectory.com, I think that will be better than having it as a subdomain.

 

I'd make a directory if I were you, and I'd also make this thread a poll

 

You should make it a customer list instead

 

I can already think of several topics to discuss. I say go for it...

 

Regged domain name for future use

That was my plan

What else do we have to improve on? Give us some suggestions

Thanks for all comments, now the thread is a poll too

 

Sounds a great idea to me jason , go for it m8 , but one thing i will say is this = once you get the directory started ( set up , promoted etc etc ) you should probably look into maybe getting someone else to run the day to day workings of it , then that keeps you working on your hosting business

 

Well you can try it and if it fails then it's not a big loss

 

I would say just pass on this idea again , it just gives you more crappy pages and links.
Try to work on better services , and make greenlushdirectory.com a web dir

 

Agreed.

Moreover whatever amit said is true. Why mix hosting n directory only for "PR" ?

Just make a new domain like told here greenlushdirectory and link back from greenlush ... promote, do linkbuilding and start of a new project.

Ps.: Book that domain asap... or someone might.. lol.

 

Some one might what? I allready got it Ill pm Amit about developing it with me tomorow. I'll just put links to the Greenlush affiliate program on it aswell and enable all my hosting affiliants to add banners for earning PPC and "submission commision" on the directory (That sounds so awesome! ) but yeah Greenlushdirectory.com is brand new and will proberly take a hell of alot of SEO'ing to get to Greenlush's standards but with listings on Greenlush.com and sitewide on the forum it should be quite high.

More comments welcomed

 

It will be the best believe me
I will catch you after todays sleep and we can get started on it too

 

Agree to this. Why to get a Subdomain when you are going to start a whole new Directory? You have to do the same promotion in both cases so better to go with a different domain.

That looks like a cool domain name.
or may be two flavors like, GreenDirectory.com or LushDirectory.com

 

I thought ur "today's" sleep was already over or maybe your catching up yesterday's now I think....

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Anyways, Good Luck jason with the project, all the best with it.

 

No, you should focus on your hosting and answering customers.

If you think you can make your directory the best around why ask if you should make it?