Do you add sites yourself in your paid directory? - Talk Directories

mikey1090 · 01-29-2008, 10:22 AM

An interesting point. Many directory owners will be quick to say that their site was built for humans and is a general resource, rather than a "paid link farm".

How many of you actually hire someone to add sites manually or add sites yourself?

Do you add non commercial sites only?

Do you add informative sites into usually commercial based categories (business, shopping etc)?

Your thoughts?

sizzler_chetan · 01-29-2008, 08:35 PM

Yes, i add resources myself in empty categories, so that if people are somehow dropped to a category through search engine, they should not leave unhappily. They have to be served with some good resource.
I was going to add a same thread here, before your did

Yesterday itself i started adding links in my Nature websites in - Noble- Nature Web Directory category

mikey1090 · 01-30-2008, 03:53 AM

How many do you add? At what point is a category no longer empty? Good work

Botman · 01-31-2008, 08:52 PM

I try to make sure that there is always a quality resource in any category a visitor may click on. I do add sites to the Authority Directory to make it more useful to visitors.

The category could already contain 100 sites and if I felt there was one quality resource missing I would still add it. Not all my categories are as full as I would like so you all need to submit some more.

mikey1090 · 02-01-2008, 02:57 AM

At what point do you consider a category to become full? When will you think you have enough resources and move on?

Amit · 02-03-2008, 09:19 PM

I think that is actually a good idea to manually add sites to empty cat's. That makes it a quality resource for the visitors and also nice food for the search engines

mikey1090 · 02-04-2008, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Amit

I think that is actually a good idea to manually add sites to empty cat's. That makes it a quality resource for the visitors and also nice food for the search engines

Exactly. Google has recently come down hard on sites like directories or blogs. Pages with duplicate content - eg categories with no articles, listings or content get slapped with PR n/a.

hyper · 02-06-2008, 03:44 PM

I didn't added sites,yet. And I am not saying that I won't..who knows.

But for those who add sites, do you add them with nofollow or not ?

dvduval · 02-06-2008, 09:23 PM

Normally, the directory owner is charging for the review process only. What is done to increase the quality of the directory such as adding good sites or other content is a plus for the directory in my mind. I also find that pagerank is more commonly awarded to internal pages that contain good content in links, so there can also be a benefit to the submitter.

sizzler_chetan · 02-07-2008, 04:12 AM

I don't usually count the no. of links added, if i feel a single website with great quality is listed in a category, it would be enough to satisfy a visitor there, and sometimes 5 listings all of average quality would not be satisfactory.
So the count of listings added is of secondary importance in my mind.

mikey1090 · 02-07-2008, 10:10 AM

@hyper I'm not sure about adding with nofollow. It gives the impression that to get a dofollow link you must pay = buying links. It may also put people off, as if potential customers scan your directory they may see the nofollow on some sites and think all are like that.

@David, well said. If you leave a category empty it will be binned in the supplemental results in google and will be given PR N/A like many directories are at the moment. Thats why adding sites yourself is great SEO - preventing duplicate content and also preventing users from having a dull experience.

@chetan, good thoughts. Quality over quantity every day.

Botman · 02-09-2008, 01:21 PM

I am in a time crunch writing this so I hope it makes sense.

I read somewhere that I can't remember now and it basically went like this.

It is a great thing to have your site associated with other high quality sites. In the case of a directory that does not neccessarily mean they need to link to you imo. You can link to high quality resources. I am sure that inbound links are better though.

Also from the perspecitive of a site that submits for a listing it is appealing that your site listed with high quality authority resource in your niche. It creates an association with those other high quality resources.

More listings also creates more ways you can show up in search results and create traffic. I get traffic off some details pages I would have never thought possible but it is there.

From a visitor standpoint it is pretty simple - why would they visit your site if there is nothing to see when they get there?

There are too many reasons that directories should manually add listings to their sites and I have never heard a single good reason not to.

As far as no follow - there is no way I would no follow a resource I thought had enough quality to manually add it.

DownUnder · 02-09-2008, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Botman

I am in a time crunch writing this so I hope it makes sense.

It is a great thing to have your site associated with other high quality sites. In the case of a directory that does not neccessarily mean they need to link to you imo. You can link to high quality resources. I am sure that inbound links are better though.

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This will probably make less sense, but in relation to incoming and outgoing links, and in relation to inbound is better.

I have a note ( one of many on my wall ) and it reads " You will create money / traffic By focusing on the things that do not make money or focus on traffic "

I scribbled that in this vein, that i see many people who only focus on what they can get not what they can give.

In the premise that only in giving do you recieve, so by shifting focus from what you can take from the net instead ask what you can offer the net.

With that if you offer the right combinations you in return get what your wanted in the first place but magnified.

I'm even confused now but i am sure you have a handle on it.

mikey1090 · 02-10-2008, 04:12 AM

Another point to note about adding quality sites...

If everyone adds quality sites like youtube, nasa, whitehouse etc when visitors come searching they will find nothing new, only stuff they have seen elsewhere on the web.

Find and add interesting sites.

Botman · 02-10-2008, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DownUnder

I have a note ( one of many on my wall ) and it reads " You will create money / traffic By focusing on the things that do not make money or focus on traffic "

I scribbled that in this vein, that i see many people who only focus on what they can get not what they can give.

I think the term for this is altruistic capitalism and I agree with that principal whole heartedly.

There was someone else that said "let go of the outcome to increase your income" - I think it was deepak chopra but could be way wrong on that.

i think the point we are both trying to make is that there are many, many reasons to add quality or even just interesting resources to your directory.

I don't think I have heard one good reason not to.

noobpreneur · 04-05-2008, 07:28 PM

I started to add several links to my dir myself.

Quote:

From a visitor standpoint it is pretty simple - why would they visit your site if there is nothing to see when they get there?

Botman is right - I looked at my own directory and it shouted - 'stale'

Cheers! gotta add my own link

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