Want to make article directory

wowcolombia1

12 years ago

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coredesign

12 years ago

Originally Posted by wowcolombia1

Man i sware i am thinking of creating and article directory to maybe we can team up.
First of all i dont think we need any stuff of that to do it.
We just need a team that help us.
If you want me to join you just pm me

Sure..........we can team up. You can email me at core.design74@gmail.com as I don't have sufficient posts now to pm.

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montoyanb

12 years ago

Haha I also alwayes wanted to do article directory. But no you don't need any of that stuff. There are a lot of article directory.

Well you will need team to check grammar and spelling, copyspace etc.

How would you montenize site? Adsense?

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coredesign

12 years ago

Originally Posted by montoyanb

Haha I also alwayes wanted to do article directory. But no you don't need any of that stuff. There are a lot of article directory.

Well you will need team to check grammar and spelling, copyspace etc.

How would you montenize site? Adsense?

Hopefully

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PatriciaJ

12 years ago

Anybody can start an article directory, EZA do not have legal rights unless you copy their site.

If you've got lots of money you can set up a team to check articles but most directory owners do it themselves and it takes a lot of time out of your day

I wouldn't accept less than 400 - 500 word articles.

If you have instant approval then you will have crap content. That is unless you vet authors first, and even then once you start to trust them some will return that trust with badly spinned articles or plagiarised.

Personally I would not have started my directories had I known how much time they would take up and how difficult it is to make money from them. There are hundreds if not thousands of directories out there that have been abandoned by their owners because they get overwhelmed with junk articles and make little or no money.

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coredesign

12 years ago

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

There are hundreds if not thousands of directories out there that have been abandoned by their owners because they get overwhelmed with junk articles and make little or no money.

What do you mean?

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PatriciaJ 12 years ago

Originally Posted by coredesign

What do you mean?

A lot of people enter this business and think that running an article directory is a great idea. They believe all the hype about them making lots of money from those giving away or selling scripts. They see such as ezine articles and articlesbase riding high in the rankings, getting lots of traffic and making lots of brass and think 'hey up I can do that'.

You might be able to, but most of us can't and after wasting many hours on rejecting at least 80% of the articles submitted I really wouldn't want to. I found better things to do with my time and hopefully so did all of those who abandoned their dreams of running a directory.

If anybody were to come into it new and make as big a success of it as Christopher Knight has with EZA they would need to do something really unique themselves. Asking for unique articles wouldn't work. I for one would only let my unique articles go to 3 places: my own sites, a blog in my niche with high traffic, or an offline publication.

If EZA can't then a new article directory just wouldn't be able to offer enough benefits to authors in exchange for unique articles. The only 'unique' ones that they would get would be the type that are spinned for each different directory that nobody could or would want to read.

If you still want to go a head with an article directory I would choose a niche directory where you might be able to build a list of people all interested in that niche.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

There are hundreds if not thousands of directories out there that have been abandoned by their owners because they get overwhelmed with junk articles and make little or no money.

This ^^^ exactly.

Please excuse the observation that it seems a very strange time to be wanting to start an article directory, just as so many owners of article directories are abandoning them, partly in response to all Google's 2011 algorithm changes making it so difficult for them to monetize successfully.

I've never been involved with one (other than as an author/user, like many others here), but I have to say that at the moment it certainly wouldn't be on my own list of "viable business ventures" to set up, at all.

Even such well-established companies as "Buzzle" have found it so difficult to survive that they've changed their underlying business model, this year, and are no longer an "article directory" per se.

EZA is perhaps the leading exception, being the most famous and one of the longest-established directories, as well as (uniquely among directories) the one to which most publishers instinctively turn in search of content. With apologies for the slightly negative tone, I really do think, in addition to Patricia's sage and helpful comments above, that you'd be very well advised to seek opinions and advice from as many article directories owners as possible (albeit that there aren't so many left now), before embarking on such a venture.

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Dimian

12 years ago

cpa offers might be a good way to monetize as well, since you already know what the user is after

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wowcolombia1

12 years ago

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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by wowcolombia1

Well you guys mean this is not a good idea?

For myself, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot barge-pole. I may be wrong, of course.

Originally Posted by wowcolombia1

I think that it is but we have to put rules like unique content

Article directories don't require unique content.

There's nothing - in theory - to stop you from starting one that does require it, but it will be the only one that does. And there are reasons for that!

Buzzle tried that (they used to be the only article directory that required unique content), and it didn't help them at all. They were victims of the "Panda updates" just like all the other article directories.

Even EZA doesn't require unique content. (They'd lose all their best authors, if they tried that - and they know it).

To put it very mildly, it's pretty difficult to imagine that authors will be willing to produce unique content for a newly-formed, not-well-known article directory rather than publishing it on their own sites, isn't it? :confused:

Originally Posted by wowcolombia1

I also think that we can make something like squidoo or blogger but it can be difficult.

That, of course, is a totally different proposition altogether (and not one I know the first thing about - but they're obviously not article directories).
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by drunkenmonkey
  
  Is that fact?
  
  It is; yes.
  
  Article directories don't require previously unpublished content. (It's a factual statement ).
  
  Originally Posted by drunkenmonkey
  
  Where did you get that info/source?
  
  Answered here (in some detail - including sources listed!).
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by drunkenmonkey
  
  Show me where they allow duplicated (which it would be if published elsewhere) content?
  
  Show me where they say they don't. You're the one alleging that something's disallowed, so the onus is on you to find evidence. Go on ... astonish a few hundred people. There are hundreds of article marketers here who always publish all their articles on their own sites first, and have them indexed there, and then submit them to EZA only after that. There must have been 50+ threads discussing this very point, just in the last few months.
  
  Who's voluntarily going to give an article directory the initial indexation-rights to their work?!
  
  I now have about 1,600 articles on Ezine Articles, ALL of which were previously published elsewhere (and most of them in multiple places), before being submitted to EZA.
  
  And so do many other articles marketers here.
  
  Unless you imagine that all the professional article marketers posting on the subject in this 642-post thread are confabulating, of course! http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html
  
  This is common knowledge. It's also discussed and explained in detail in the post linked to in my post just above, but if you choose not to read it, you're welcome to continue believing whatever urban myths you like.
  
  Answered here (in some detail - including sources listed!).
  
  (For the record, I suspect that you may have confused "duplicate content" and "syndicated content"; I may be wrong about that, of course, in your specific case - but that does normally turn out to be the explanation when someone mistakenly imagines that EZA requires content that hasn't previously been published elsewhere).
  
  By the way, if it helps you, the difference between duplicate content and syndicated content is explained here, including quotations from Google's WebMaster Central blog: Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing
  
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  Lee MacRae 12 years ago
  
  I'll throw the drunken monkey a bone Alexa...
  
  Ezine Articles has stated it themselves if he had actually taken the time to look for it. For example they have a series of helpful videos at this link
  
  http://ezinearticles.com/videos/cate...approval-tips/
  
  and in the video link below it says
  
  "In this “2 Minute Approval Tips” episode, I’ll share how you can start repurposing your existing content today."
  
  2 Minute Approval Tips: Repurpose Content Correctly
  
  In that video he says since you already have blog posts or web pages you have written and published why not publish that to other places like Ezine Articles?
  
  And one of the tips they share is that you need to make sure your material is first published under a name that matches your author name at Ezine Article so they know the material is actually yours. I made that mistake once where I published info under a different pen name on a blog and had it rejected.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by drunkenmonkey
  
  @Alexa ...there's no need to be arsey/snotty about it.
  
  It was a misunderstanding, DM: we each thought the other was being arsey/snotty. Very glad you found the information you wanted, anyway.
  
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Courtney Lee

12 years ago

In this day and age I wouldn't go this route; however, there are a ton of scripts that can do this for you for FREE via Google Search. (;

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slatron25

12 years ago

I agree with everyone else. Put your time towards more worthy ventures.

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howinfo

12 years ago

Originally Posted by coredesign

Hi Warriors,

I always have a dream to create an article directory like Ezine.

Article Friendly has released it's latest article directory script - Ultimate. It is probably the best article directory script to use for a reasonable price. Have you given any thoughts what script you are going to be using or you planning to have custom made?

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getano

12 years ago

Forget about Article Directories! Google crushed them with Panda. Try going for press releases!
Those are working quite well

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PatriciaJ

12 years ago

Originally Posted by howinfo

Article Friendly has released it's latest article directory script - Ultimate. It is probably the best article directory script to use for a reasonable price. Have you given any thoughts what script you are going to be using or you planning to have custom made?

I bought that yesterday to upgrade my travel article directory. AF Pro is good but this should be even better

Originally Posted by getano

Forget about Article Directories! Google crushed them with Panda. Try going for press releases!
Those are working quite well

Exaggeration. Google didn't crush all of them and not all the way. If any crushing has been done to directories it's been because of the overwhelming amount of regurgitated junk being submitted by those who don't give a monkeys about quality or what they place on other people's sites.

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howinfo

12 years ago

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

I bought that yesterday to upgrade my travel article directory. AF Pro is good but this should be even better.

I am using Article Friendly Pro as well for our career article directory and yes it does a really good job. The Ultimate however has some really good extra features. Are you currently updating, as your signature link is giving error message,

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PatriciaJ

12 years ago

Originally Posted by howinfo

I am using Article Friendly Pro as well for our career article directory and yes it does a really good job. The Ultimate however has some really good extra features. Are you currently updating, as your signature link is giving error message,

I've got Article Friendly on my travel directory and will be updating to the Ultimate sometime this week. The link you are referring to is my general subject directory which is on Wordpress. I found out that my host still had my hosting on an old php version last night and asked them to upgrade it to php 5.3. That threw the script out and put the site in error until I found out this morning and uploaded a file compatable with php 5.3. It's ok now and should run better and be safer from hackers.

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ad2478

11 years ago

I am one of those who recently got the idea of making an article directory but i know there is already a lot of stuff on internet and i need to come up with some thing more creative and unique. the chat has been great but we are kind of dragged away from actual topic.
anyways if still any one open for such kind of project let me know. I am into seo content writing and now looking to expand my business in some way.
Or atleast list down what are the things we need to start the article direcotyr.

I think any software for checking plagiarism and duplicate content on interne tis essential? And a software which can automatically detect if there are 2 separate pen names and one common content it should be rejected. Or is it check manually?

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