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Web Directory

Posted on June 16, 2008
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A web directory as most Internet Marketers will know is a useful place to register your sites in order to get a backlink to them. Most of them, especially the free ones however, require a reciprocal link back. That rather saps some of the link juice from your link. So here’s another rather more novel way to make use of a web directory.

A Web Directory in the Hand…

Host your own!

Yep, I’m not joking either. If you want more control over links generated to your sites, then go buy a domain name that is relevant to a directory of some kind and put up your own web directory! There are many scripts available for doing that and some of them are free, or will cost a minimal amount. I personally put a web directory together a couple of months ago using a free Link Bid Directory script (look it up in Google, there are lots of them).

The beauty of a Link Bif web directory is that while its not free for other website owners to place their links, it is for the owner! You can link out to all your main sites from your own web directory while promoting it and getting it links from elsewhere to boost its own PR and SERPs authority. Once you get some Page Rank for your web directort, you will attract offers from other website owners to place their links. This is your opportunity to make some money from your own web directory!

You see, while Google is mad as hell at blog owners who sell links, they are not bothered about owners of web directories charging a small fee for their directory listing services.

With a Link Bid you set a tariff of minimum “bids” a website owner can make for their link. For the minimum of say $5, they’ll get a standard listing with a main page link plus up to three deep page links. If they increase their bid, they get a chance of that listing being displayed on the web directory’s front page - meaning they get the most link juice, which they are happy to pay more for. The bidding comes into its own when several site owners are vying for the top places on the web directory’s front page as they will try to outbid each other to stay on page one. More money for the web directory owner, who does no work for this by the way - the script handles it all and yo collect the money in your PayPal account.

Cool.

While my own web directory is growing, I’m quite happy for it to just send link juice to my own sites until it builds up some PR of its own. As I’m hosting the web directory on my own reseller account, it isn’t costing me any more for hosting, so its a nice investment. It can also be sold down the road if you get fed up with it, using information in Trent’s previous post at Flip PLR Products For Quick Profit. I just saw a web directory up for sale on sitepoint for a minimum bid price of $2,000 so its very worthwhile as a long term investment.

My web directory can be found by following this link: Web Directory

Terry Didcott