How to make money with a url directory?

12 years ago

I can think of 2 options. These are web owners. They're targeted. Start building a list and offer products to them on a semi-weekly basis - stuff they'd want - SEO-related, etc... stuff that would benefit their website. Or, another option: create a reason for them to pay. Right now, the backlink probably wouldn't be too helpful or whatever you're offering them. Would YOU pay for it? People won't be paying for something that doesn't have value; offer value, and they'll pay.

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Tobarja

12 years ago

Take a look at the logs and see how long it takes the average user to fill out the add url form. A real user would spend at least a minute filling out the form. If it's much less than that, say 1-10 seconds, you're just another link directory in someone's list.

It wouldn't surprise me to find you're getting 99% automated directory submissions.

Where's your reCAPTCHA?

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jdooley13 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Tobarja

Where's your reCAPTCHA?

I don't have one and I don't know how to add one. I suppose it was a stupid purchase but I was just trying to kick start my online career. It came with an email list and I thought I could make use of it. I didn't realize that no one had actually opted in to a list.
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travlinguy

12 years ago

What type of directory is it? Maybe you can offer information related to the reason people are showing up in the first place. As for getting subscribers to sign up to a list, that's not hard. You've got something they want so make them sign up to get it. From there offer good content related to what your directory is about.

Sign up for an autoresponder service. Aweber and GetResponse are both good. There are many others. And if you aren't hip as to how to operate one, all the major services have tutorials available. And if their tutorials suck go to Youtube to figure it out.

Lots of article directories require that you subscribe to their lists. If you opt out of their mailings they delete your account. I'm not saying you should do that but there is a way to monetize your operation, though it's hard to brainstorm without knowing what it is.

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jdooley13

12 years ago

Originally Posted by travlinguy

What type of directory is it?

It's just a general website directory. The URL is greatesturllist.info

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pandava

12 years ago

Suggestions based on having built 2 PR1 general link directories in the past 2 months.
1 offer only reciprocal links free, others paid
2 if site has PR above 0, price the link per month and with some discount per annum (don't bother if you get only a few paid listings)
3 check if your site already submitted to all major directory lists
4 if site has PR above 0, sell links on Fiverr, Backlinks.com, LinkAdage.com and all the remaining link selling sites
5 offer few featured links or one of those MRR products at random to all members who optin (offer optin incentive that you can afford to give)
6 put deep links to all your other sites and their content and blog posts into this directory; repeat for sites of your friends, etc

If none of this works or you don't find it worth the effort, sell the site back on Flippa. You should be able to recover the cost you paid.

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Green Moon 12 years ago

I also bought a general link directory on another forum. My experience is very similar to yours, no clicks on any ads no matter what I try.

I have come to the conclusion that if you take the time to exercise any judgment at all with respect to the submitted links, a general directory isn't going to ever justify the time. I'm thinking about trying some specialty directories on a couple of sites I already own.
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jdooley13

12 years ago

Originally Posted by pandava

Suggestions based on having built 2 PR1 general link directories in the past 2 months.
1 offer only reciprocal links free, others paid
2 if site has PR above 0, price the link per month and with some discount per annum (don't bother if you get only a few paid listings)
3 check if your site already submitted to all major directory lists
4 if site has PR above 0, sell links on Fiverr, Backlinks.com, LinkAdage.com and all the remaining link selling sites
5 offer few featured links or one of those MRR products at random to all members who optin (offer optin incentive that you can afford to give)
6 put deep links to all your other sites and their content and blog posts into this directory; repeat for sites of your friends, etc

If none of this works or you don't find it worth the effort, sell the site back on Flippa. You should be able to recover the cost you paid.

Thanks so much for the advice. I am going to deep link all my other sites now. I have the main pages on there but I had never even considered deep linking.
The site is a PR0. Do you have any suggestions on how to raise the page rank?

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jdooley13

12 years ago

Sounds like the email list may be the way to go. I have about 12,000 unique email addresses. I just need to be able to figure out how to add aweber to my site. I bought the site and the seller loaded it on my hostgator account and all I really know how to do is approve the sites and change the confirmation emails.I know that some of the submissions are autobots but I think a lot of them are individual site owners. Maybe an IM related email offer would work.

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aaaa33030

12 years ago

You can buy a domain name and cloak it to an affiliate link

Require users to put a reciprocal link (that will be your money site) on their site before they are allowed to list a url in the directory

In that way you will be building thousands of backlinks to your money site on autopilot.

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People go to url directories to list their site not look at ads

I just took a look at your site

Definitely make the reciprocal link a requirement and also you're using the wrong link

Like I said above use your money site as a reciprocal link using the correct keyword so that your money site can show up higher in the search engines for your chosen keyword as more and more users link to it on their site

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jdooley13 12 years ago

[QUOTE=aaaa33030;5728626]You can buy a domain name and cloak it to an affiliate link

Can you tell me what you mean by cloak it to an affiliate link?
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- aaaa33030 12 years ago
  
  [quote=jdooley13;5729290]
  
  Originally Posted by aaaa33030
  
  You can buy a domain name and cloak it to an affiliate link
  
  Can you tell me what you mean by cloak it to an affiliate link?
  
  Choose a profitable product or service to promote (this would be an affiliate link)
  
  Buy a cheap domain name, go to for example godaddy .com and forward the domain name with masking
  
  When users want to add a link to your directory simply use your masked domain name (affiliate link) for the exchange links section
  
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Gama Seva

12 years ago

You can either add value to it by adding your existing products as a bonus if they list their sites on your directory or vice versa.

Gama

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