I may well be wrong, and I'd love to be but I don't think for a second anyone post PR chasing would EVER pay $1000 + for a link in a link farm that clearly was selling to directory owners http://www.blazemp.com/dir/Directories/ The rest of the categories have 1 or 0 links in them. That's one of the reasons why the directory industry is in the state it is, because of this. I also think that people falsely claim that they are getting paid $1000 bids etc, and I'm not the only one who thinks this, but as I could probably never prove it I'd just leave this to being an opinion and not a claim.
He actually said he created a bid directory to utilise the traffic from the main site, as a standard directory wouldn't pass as much traffic through to the listings. @OP - If you want to make money, don't make a bidding directory. If your directory is a long term project making a bid directory will not be a good idea.
Build reputation for your site first. Build traffic. Don't be too obvious with sellig links and later on big revenue will flow in as link sales but behind the scenes so that the Google Uncle doesn't catch you! ;-)
the thread sucks. The main question sucks. It's live asking a community : "It is better swimming or diving ?" The best answer would be : do what you can handle the best. Choose between bidding or simple directory, decide which one you like, decide which one would you prefer as a submitter and begin working, promoting, enhancing. Asking in here this is so...useless. Thanks, hyper
hi calum! how is it going, bidding directories have good bids because they had promoted it, general directories which are promoted also gets a lot of submission. With bidding directories you get repeat business, as people increase there bids, in general directories if you have satisfied clients they will change to featured links from regular etc, though the earning opportunity in bidding directories from repeat submitters or bid-ups is more. If you have bought a general directory then keep it general, no need to change it to something else! just keep promoting it by submitting to other directories, buy forum avaters etc and you will see a lot of submissions coming your way!