Any well build web site will have links on it Front page that will direct visitors to inner pages. Directory job is not to promote something that belong to Search Engines but to promote site itself. Why push in users throats pages they don't care to go to in a first place? Not to mention that inner pages susceptible to deletion which in the end of the day leaves directory with bunch of dead links. If you really want to provide service that will help your users to promote their resources, then do what we done and offer to them something that will provide real benefit where it counts. AMRAY Web Directory now offers our users an opportunity to add their links to places like: Link to Forum Link to Blog Link to Twitter Link to Facebook Link to My Space Link to Blogspot Link to Digg Link to Delicious Link to Stumbleupon Link to Technorati and if they use all or any of above sites, having links to them will do much better for their success online than a few useless pages that actually buried inside their sites. fastreplies
Hi fastreplies, I've been considering offering a similar opportunity but it seems like it could easily lead to inadvertently linking to a bad neighborhood. How often do you audit and review those extra links to ensure they don't turn into a cesspool?
We just added that feature a month ago, so for now it's too early to say what its will become and yes, now editors will have more job to do watching over the shoulder but I guess this is the price you will be paying for staying head above competition and when you're striving to be the Best. fastreplies
For now, I'm a one woman band so I opted on the side of caution and don't plan on including those options. But, I do have a few other tricks up my sleeve about adding extra content that I'm working on. I've always accepted subpages. Perhaps it was simply the nature of both of my niches - crafts and pets. So many of the sites cover multiple topics and it just seemed more advantageous for both of us to allow allow separate submissions for their primary categories.