Top directories??? - On who's Authority exactly!

Yes, I am looking at jReviews, which is a Joomla-based component. It has very nice functionality, especially for the price. But I have a few concerns:

1) Joomla 1.5 is relatively new and very few users are using this platform. I have been checking around.

2) The version of jReviews that runs on native 1.5 is not yet available and it is going to be released in phases.

3) jReviews is partially encrypted and requires Ioncube.

4) There is only one developer behind this product.

5) Experienced and knowledgeable Joomla developers are scarce.

6) All of the parts make this solution complex and difficult to maintain/debug.

So, it is an affordable solution with lots of risk.

Another product that I am looking is SOBI2 which is a search engine/directory, but I don't think it has the features I am looking for.

I have done some work on reviewing the architecture and coding of lots of these scripts. Most have lots of issues, so whichever one I purchase, for proof of concept, would probably have to be redone in order to scale up. That would cost a lot, which is why I am moving ahead cautiously.

Rich

 

If your that good rich, and you seem to know what your talking about with this debugging thing, (A good code shouldn't need that?) why don't you consider writing your own script? It might be a better way to go and give you more satisfaction perhaps.?

 

1.american golf - golf equipment products and accessories directory for the new or experienced golfer, from clubs and trolleys to golf apparel for men, women and juniors
www.americangolf.co.uk/directory.asp - 93k - Cached

2.Worldwide Golf Industry Directory


4.Golf Monthly - UK Course Directory
Golf Forum. Top 120 Courses. HSBC Regional Course Rankings. UK & Ireland Courses Directory ... Golf Marketplace (New!) Competitions. Subscribe. Archive ...
www.golf-monthly.co.uk/directory/index.php?id=2&page=7 - Cached


5.UK Golf Directory
UK Golf Directory on finding UK golf courses and golf ranges. ... UK Golf Directory. Regional Portals. Market ... Golf Tournaments from UK Golf Directory. ...
www.ukgolfdirectory.com - Cached


6.Golf Club Directory
... club information directory containing details of golf clubs and links throughout ... Golf Club Directory.Com - provides an interactive website for local golfers, ...
golfclubdirectory.com - 143k - Cached

7.Golflinks
U.K. and Ireland comprehensive golf site.
www.golflinks.co.uk - Cached

8.Marketplace - comprehensive golf business directory | Today's Golfer
GOLF LISTINGS allows you to target your business to a powerful active golfing audience. ... New Nike Golf Air Zoom Elite World Shoe ...
www.todaysgolfer.co.uk/Golf/tradedirectory - Cached

9.Welcome to Golf business News.com!
... club house and pro-shop, for all purchasers in the golf industry ... edition of the Golf Owners, Operators and Developers Directory contains the very ...
www.golfbusinessnews.com - Cached

10.Europe - Golf Industry Directory
golf-industry.com - golf industry news, information, directories of companies, golf jobs, golf stock prices ... the Golf Today Industry Directory then please ...
www.golf-industry.com/directory/europe/index.html - Cached


That's only page 1

Good luck with it.

 

A niche perhaps would do. Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner. Lots of categories to choose from.

Breakfast Links, German Links, Italian Links. Cooked for specifications.

Sausage Directory.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

 

I never thought of doing a google. Compare the size of competition on general directories and golf directories.

Trust me, with a name like links.com and good content he'd shoot up the serps, do you really feel the need to come across as condescending? It doesn't fit.

 

There are lots of technologies that have to be well understood to write a good piece of software. I have excellent knowledge of some (e.g. system design, database design, database development, program design/specification), so-so knowledge of others (CSS, HTML, SEO), and very little knowledge of others (PHP, web optimization). I understand my limitations, which is why I do not try to do it. But nowadays I do have lots of time, so I am beginning to research Joomla and maybe, what the heck, I might try to do it. I am thinking I might be able to resell it an make some money in the process. But I am getting a bit old for it.

Rich

 

At one time I was considering a golf page but the competition is huge and I am not an expert in that space. What's more, I cannot compete against the content that the other sites have. It would be a lost cause.

Rich

 

The toughest part is coming up with content. There are other obstacles, which I would have to overcome some how, which make such an endeavor very, very risky.

Rich

 

A sausage directory would be way kewl ... but unhealthy. It is a very neat idea though. Thanks! I will give it some thought.

One thing I have to consider, is that most of my visitors are primarily interested in entertainment so I would have to build from scratch.

Rich

 

Here is my sausage link competition

Sausage Links

Should I take them on????

Rich

 

It's a neat idea and it goes with this directory.

Adult can come with it too as hot sausage links and tabasco or hot peppered sausages are mostly for adults and not for child consumption.

You can easily get authorative status on that niche as you have the links name. Honestly it is a good idea and most probably advertisers of that niche especially the beers would be interested too.

 

Now I give the guy some encouragement, I even go to the trouble and pull links from Google for him (which I didn't have to do), and you automatically assume I'm being condescending.

I dunno, there's just no pleasing some folks.

seriously, as interesting as Golf would be as a niche directory, it's clearly been done hundreds of tmes before, so do you really want to see this guy waste his cash and his time, just so you and others here can stroke each others egos. Who loses? not you - it's his money and not yours, infact it's not upto any of us what he does. So wish him luck.

Forums, funnily enough, are where people seek advice and comment, I'm only passing my knowledge on, if you hate it that much, then don't engage me.

Who was the bugger that hijacked my thread. hmmmmm

 

mmmmmm sausages Yum - and some fried onion rings mmmmmmm

 

Very true. Competition are experts

 

Competition is huge in any arena Rich. As good as the domain name is it still has limits to what subject matter would really benefit from. Golf is possibly the best one barring none. OK, sausages perhaps. Sure competition is there, so what, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to see that the true value is association. At the moment its wasted but you might think otherwise.

Event_King seems to know it all so I'm out of the thread now, I don't want to get teased into pulling him down a peg or two, that would be unfair on the thread. First person to go on my ignore list by the looks of it. I'll spend the time I waste responding to his replies looking for his alleged boasts in a National Newspaper over here in the UK, oops, I nearly forgot, we already had a researcher look through the daily mirror library archives.

Good luck.

 

Your full of crap Jamie. You know it and I know it.


lol.

 

Is there a topic not yet covered in some way ? maybe ailen space critters wearing high heels ?

Links.com, a good name with many angles but it would need some branding and promotional work to go with it, for example it could be used to connect missing or seperated people across our small planet.

if branded , advertised , set up right cant see why not, good luck with it regardless.

 

Hi,

Whatever I do, I have to have some differentiation. I need some content on the site that would draw visitors that other sites do not have. Or, I might be an expert with some knowledge that visitors might find interesting. Unfortunately, I cannot think of anything do do with golf that would entice anyone to my site (one look at my swing would confirm this).

What's more, most of my traffic now is looking for entertainment (and that includes porn). So, I would have to build traffic from scratch. Not impossible, but even if I get good SERP using golf links, what would get a visitor coming back. I already get 2000 uniques a day with very few returning (no surprise given the content on the site). I could not provide advice, commentary, news, or videos that can possibly compete against other golf sites - many of which are marvelous because I use to go to them all of the time.

I could invest tens of thousands of dollars in a site, but then I would have to put in many times that amount just trying to compete with new content which other golf sites automatically get plenty of because that is their full time business. I am afraid it would be a losing battle, and I would be penniless and coming here for handouts, instead of advice, should I go down that treacherous path of attempting to build a golf site. Like all good bridge players, I shall choose to pass.

Thanks anyway for the suggestion and encouragement.

Rich

 

lol. Well to recap, I mentioned that I would like to try to build a good directory that has information that would truly direct visitors to good sites that they might be interested in. I think there are good directories on the net, but they look nothing like the typical directory discussed on this forum. My model would be Yelp, and this is what I would consider a top directory.

Yelp has a large following, is categorized nicely by geography so it benefits visitors, it has ratings, reviews, and commentary. It is a yellow pages that helps. Good idea and very successful. So why is everyone putting all of their energy into building a directory of meaningless links? Beats me.

Rich

 

Bingo! This is one of the ideas that I was bandying about. Do you really think something like this would work? I would put the energy into if, because I think it works with the name, and I think that I can develop a site that might really help link up people. This is definitely something I would like to try out, if I can convince myself there is a real market out there. I know that there is competition, but I have looked at the competition and I think I can do better.

Rich