What's your opinion on Bidding directories? Hate them/Love them?

Discussion in 'Directories' started by bigidea_guy, Aug 21, 2008.

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Are bidding directories worth placing a link on?

Poll closed Aug 28, 2008.

  1. Yes

    19 vote(s)
    47.5%

  2. No

    21 vote(s)
    52.5%
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  1. Kraize

    Kraize Peon

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    #21
    I think it is only a matter of time before Google starts penalizing them. Bidding directories are basically just big link selling farms; and we all know Google hates sites selling links.
     
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  2. Jim4767

    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    #22
    Traffic? Does anyone realistically know a single person who gets significant traffic from bidding directories?
     
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  3. fear

    fear Banned

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    #23
    Zorg-links.com, Bigweblinks.com and many others.....
     
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  4. pibepalo

    pibepalo Active Member

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    #24
    I own a particular niche bid directory which accepts free submissions and bid for positions (linksadmin.net), and I think that bidders really gain more traffic. Anyway, it isn't running under an ordinary bidding script, but the philosophy of bid for positions joined to special submission rules is fully valid for me. Google won't penalize things like that.
     
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  5. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #25
    When I was marketing zorg-links.com heavily, I spent a lot advertising on the more popular bid directories. Bigweblinks.com for example, where I was listed high. It had a great alexa, which meant I got good traffic which converted into sales from it.

    Nowadays I see no bid directories with significant traffic like last year.
     
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  6. scoobby

    scoobby Active Member

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    #26

    Google is using the exacly same concept to advertise sites.You know how adwords work right?The high bidder get the first position and so on....What is the difference you see that can penalise all bid directories.Unless if you all vote in this thread refering to this bidding directories as mentioned in this well explained and usefull article http://www.fuzzuck.com/2008/07/17/bid-directory-scams/ that is against bid directories but well explain the bad thing bid directries do and when u see that a bid directory have this features avoid it.Congrats to the author.
     
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  7. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #27
    Adwords is the selling of traffic/branding, not pagerank :rolleyes:
     
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  8. adsenser

    adsenser Peon

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    #28
    Its worth until its gives you traffic or good amount of backlinks. Just in consideration of PR, Bidding network won't survive for long (my guess).
     
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  9. scoobby

    scoobby Active Member

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    #29
    and who says that eveyone who makes a directory selling pr?? :p
     
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  10. adsenser

    adsenser Peon

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    #30
    There are some, actually its what a newbie thinks.

    I never said everyone sell PR ;)
     
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  11. scoobby

    scoobby Active Member

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    #31
    yes i was refering to what mikey said ;)
    Speaking of pr there is a pr update that is happen today,if u r intrested check your sites....
     
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  12. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #32
    Nobody. But you compared them to adwords. The comparison being one is for pagerank, SERPs etc, the other is for traffic.
     
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  13. discover

    discover Notable Member

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    #33
    and adwords doesnt pass any pr or show as a backlink
     
    discover, Aug 23, 2008 IP
  14. Solicitors Mortgages

    Solicitors Mortgages Well-Known Member

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    #34
    Adwords is bid for position for traffic, just the same as any site that uses no-follow :)

    Any site that uses no-follow is entitled to use FOLLOW if it believes that the site being linked to has value, ...and it's human edited rather than he who pays the most ranks the highest automatically (as is the business model of adwords)

    Would you bother to list in a site that didn't pass pagerank if it (as you say) passed a lot of traffic like BigWebLinks used to?
     
    Solicitors Mortgages, Aug 24, 2008 IP
  15. pibepalo

    pibepalo Active Member

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    I'm selling visibility at my directory list and I really think that directories which invest in visibility acquire more reliability in order to submit there. So, I'm saying to my visitors: follow them. Why I should say to the bots: "no follow them" ?

    I won't cloak my website links placing no-follow tags. I prefer to be honest, if I'm saying one thing to my visitors, I will say the same thing to the bots.

    In fact Google is against cloaking...I think.
     
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  16. imi_99

    imi_99 Peon

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    #36
    in my experience , i dont think they are benificial
     
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  17. globestar

    globestar Guest

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    #37
    I have found that seo/backlink/serps related sites get traffic from bid directories
     
    globestar, Sep 28, 2008 IP
  18. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #38
    Yeah, that's because only webmasters visit them.
     
    mikey1090, Sep 29, 2008 IP
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