10 Reasons Why Nobody Submits Featured Listing To Your Directory
Have you ever wondered why you receive about 100 pending links and none of them can be classified as featured listing? Or even worse when you receive no pending links at all? If yes, I am sure most of directory owners out there have asked that question at some point of time, then this article is designed especially for you, my dear readers. Furthermore, this article summarizes top 10 reasons why your directory is not receiving featured listing.
- Bad First Impression. The first impression is very important factor that determines if a visitor submits featured listing or not. In the first 10 seconds, you need to impress your visitor by using premium templates mods and other directory features. As a matter of fact, if any visitor doesn?｢どｨび｢t decide to submit featured listing in the short period of time then it?｢どｨび｢s highly impossible for him to submit any sites later.
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Directories?｢どｨび｢ Page Rank is not sufficient. No body wants to submit sites to directories with pr of 0. It?｢どｨび｢s like you are asking submitters to pay but you are not offering them anything back. It?｢どｨび｢s worth noticing that there is an exception to this reason. The exception occurs when a visitor sees potential in your directory.
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Submitters never see any advertisements of your directory. If a submitter has never seen any ads of your directory then he is not confident in your directory enough to submit links. When you are advertising your directory, it?｢どｨび｢s like you are saying to potential submitter that I am serious about my directory and you should submit some links since it?｢どｨび｢s getting some traffic and pr from the advertisements.
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Nobody has every heard about your directory. If nobody knows that you have a directory then how do you except to receive submissions? Only by telling you friends that you have directory, promoting it on forums, submitting to other quality directories you ensure that your directory can be noticed by potential submitters.
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Your directory is like other ten thousand directories on the web. Make your directory look differently; apply more directory features, offer different types of submissions. In other words, create something unique so everyone will want to experience it. By being unique, you will ensure that visitor remembers your directory and might come back and more importantly submit some links.
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Directory template is used by other thousand directories. If you have a directory template that?｢どｨび｢s used by everyone else then visors will judge your directory as simply a clone and never will submit any links.
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Submissions price is not matched with directory quality. Offer featured listing at a reasonable price. If your directory is new and has no value then don?｢どｨび｢t accept users to pay $50 per link.
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Submitters are not satisfied with the results. When you promote your directory well, then it might not require any promotion at all since it will promote itself. A perfect example is when submitters recommend submitting links to your directory to their friends.
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Directory doesn?｢どｨび｢t target the right audience. Chose carefully where you promote your directory. Try to promote it on webmaster related portals.
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Directory is not listed on Directory Kit?｢どｨび｢s Strongest Directories list. It?｢どｨび｢s that simple, no one will submit any links unless your directory is listed on the list. I am just joking?｢どｨｬｶ, but seriously if your site is not listed on any lists such as Aviva?｢どｨび｢s Strongest Directories List then there is less chance that your directory will get noticed and thus receive featured submissions.
7 Reasons Why You Should Use Paid Directory Script
Independent Thoughts - Doing 70-640 or even 640-822 is a big deal for a 70-236 student who has done neither 640-863 nor 642-436 in his entire academic life.
Most of the beginners in directory industry wonder why they should purchase paid phpLD script version (directory script) if they can get free one. There are various reasons why you should use paid directory script instead of free one but not everybody really notes them.
Here is a list of 7 reasons, which might change your opinion regards downloading free version (in no particular order):
- Sitemaps Integration (auto ping server). Sitemaps will help you directory to get indexed better by major search engines and thus sites that are listed in your directory will be indexed and get some Page Rank value.
- Limited Access for Editors. Are you busy all the time and have no time to manage your directory? Then this wonderful feature of paid directory is for you since with it you will be able to hire an editor to review sites that are submitted into your directory.
- 3-Way Linking Ability (require reciprocal link to 3rd site). This feature will let you link to a third site if your site has already gotten some pretty decent pagerank. Just imagine the possibilities…
- Separate page for each link. Improve pageranks of sites that are listed in your directory by offering separate page for each site.
- Much better templates.In my opinion, templates that are for paid phpld version make your directory look more professional and thus increase number of submissions.
- Template switcher and ability to manage and use more templates per installation. Tired of switching templates and being afraid that you directory will break? The only solution for you is to use phpLD paid version since it’s as easy to change any template as a click of a button.
- Paid script will make your directory look better in general. When any submitter will see that you use paid version he will think that you are serious about your directory and will submit his site for sure!
Know other reasons? List them in comments.
What to Learn from Directory Dump to Make Your Directory More Successful
First off, let me start by saying that I was not paid by Directory Dump owner to review his directory.
I am going to talk about his directory with the aim of highlighting some important tips that I see in Directory Dump, which should be helpful and understood by a successful directory owner. Furthermore, I am going to talk about good design concepts, directory’s usability and directory promotion techniques, which are clearly illustrated in the Directory Dump, and that might help directory owners in the process of building and promoting their directories.
Let me introduce you to Directory Dump now,
“Directory Dump - Human-Edited and maintained premium paid web directory providing the highest level of integrity for family safe, spam free indexed resources available for search. Directory Dump offers deep link featured listings and regular inclusions.”
General Tips:
- Build a reference portal not a link market site. You can clearly see that the owner of Directory Dump tries to build a reference portal which is really helpful to users. Furthermore, building a reference portal will insure that your visitors come again.
- Accept only quality sites. As you can see in the Directory Dump most of the sites are useful to users and serve as a helpful resource rather than an advertisement.
- Enjoy what you are doing. As you can see Directory Dump has a LOT of features that normal directories don’t have since the owner enjoys what he or she is doing. Those features contribute to user’s friendly experience of viewing the directory and increase the rate of returned users. If you will enjoy creating a directory than it will be easier for you to create a successful directory.
- Create a directory that’s ALIVE. No body wants to use directory that looks the same as it did one year ago. You can make your directory alive by adding rss news feeds, statistics or other dynamic mods.
- Use a number of pricing options. Everybody likes to have a choice, why not to offer it when people submit site to your directory? By creating a number of pricing options you make sure that it suits user’s needs and resources.
- Show an example how listing will look like. Everybody wants to see how their listing will look like after submissions so offer them that choice before they actually submit a site to your directory.
- Use submission guidelines. Submission guidelines will not only drive away spammers but will also help you to solve problems when you reject a link.
Design Tips:
- Use mods to make your directory more user friendly. A lot of mods can be found on Directory Dump since directories are build for humans to browse not for robots. So make your users experience more enjoyable by adding helpful mods. By adding the mods you will insure that users come again. And always remember that the more your directory looks unique the more submissions you will receive.
- Use images to indicate categories. In fact, when users browse your directory they first see images not text. So why not to use images and make sure that users actually enter some categories?
- Use directory design that’s readable, not too complicated and user friendly. If you don’t know what I mean then take a look at Directory Dump, Aviva Directory and GII.
Promotion Tips:
- Spend money to earn money. Directory Dump clearly spends a lot of money for promotion and gets it back. For example, Directory Dump has bought the top spot at BigWebLinks for $1000. I am not saying you should spend thousands of dollars to promote your directory, all I am saying is that spend money if you want earn some money from your directory.
- Promote specific categories of your directory. I have seen that directory dump was promoting certain category of its directory but don’t remember where. Promoting specific directories will insure that inner pages get a good pagerank value.
- Promote you directory in your directory network. Do not forget to promote your directory on other directories that you might have since that’s free.
- Submit to dmoz. Try to submit to dmoz every six months. By submitting to dmoz you directory would be more prestige to submit sites to.
- Donate money. By donating money you will show your users that you are generous and good in general, which means that it will be easy for them to have business with you.
