My webdirectory is doing very well, in terms of SERPS, traffic, and revenue, so i cannot complain at all! The only thing i find hard is finding good sponsors. Do you guys have any reccomendations on how to find category / homepage sponsors?
Post in link sales. I would advise against it, it hurts you in the long run. Either a PR snip or less submissions due to more outbound links. Thats what many high PR directories face.
I am sure you can find sponsors looking for nofolllow small banners. Contact me if you have a special price for that.
Thats what i did Velocity, i hired someone from scriptlance to make both design as well as setup and integration of the script
The design is very similar to gii.in - the left sidebar. You should hire a reputable DP member to do a better design as its not very nice IMO. Thats got nothing to do with link sales though. People no longer want to buy links, and the way you keep bragging about your PR6 you will get it removed if you sell links.
I personally didnt see any similaries in both sites except maybe a few of same catagories that 99% of us all use lol.I recommend you use the sponsor space for your own websites rather than sell them off.
It does seem that nofollow now has to be used for Sponsor slots to keep the Big chap happy What do your sponsor slots cost please, if nofollow, thats fine, per what Mhamdi said
I dont think one will go for sponsor if its nofollow. and keeping links there would be selling links so i would not recoment selling links on it. Thanks
Thats a cool idea, i may work on that for my directory. No penalty and still would have few sponsorers. Thanks