Make $1 000 000 with paid directory a year.

[sniperhiga]

What should you do to create best directory in the web and make money.

Why?
1. You can make millions!
2. If your submission cost $50 yearly, you need 20 000 websites who will submit and it is possible.

What should i do?

1. You have to promote your directory and spend at least $5 000 - $10 000
2. It will take at least a year.
3. Pay for pr8-9 text links
4. Pay for banners on pr5-7 pages with traffic 200 or more people a day.
5. Submit for free everywhere you can and get at least 200 - 500 pr0-4 links
6. Create Logo and nice banners.
7. Join best webmasters forums and post at least 10-20 posts a day.
8. Become pr8 and make sure that you provide pr4-6 from other pages.
10. Many categories and content on the pages.
11. Reject submission of low quality sites and refund money.
12. Offer promotions such as "3 day $5 submission", "Money refund for websites we love" etc.
13. Promote your other pages by linking them from other websites.
14. On "Thank you for submission" create nice banner and ask people to add this banner to support directory. Try to create really nice small banner such as "Proud to be listes on ..." or "Top site" or something less.
15. Offer good submission for small business websites and create many categories for them. Many local "car repair", "cleaning service", "fitness center" businesses pay for submission and they have no clue about SEO. They just pay because they visited your directory 10 times in the past and now they decidet that it will help their local business.
16. Find partners to share, and place their logos on your pages with title "Your site will be also submitted in ___ Directory, === Directory, +++ Business directory, ''' Yellow pages........ etc.

Promote like hell!!!!

[mhmdkhamis]

thank u man

[hhheng]

I'm suspecting even yahoo directory can't make a profit of $1M per year.

[geldirectory]

sniper that is really useful information and i feel the same and feel that this way one can really make good money from web directory, the only problem in that one have to invest that much amount in starting, i tried to do the same for my website but then i got sort of funds and made it free.
you really need good amount to back up your directory then you can really make good amount of money per year

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by hhheng

I'm suspecting even yahoo directory can't make a profit of $1M per year.

Business.com bought this domain for $8 000 000 to create paid directory....
Believe me, they make profit.

[casperl]

Business.com bought this domain for $8 000 000 to create paid directory....
Believe me, they make profit.

Interesting fact and useful post.

[linkstraffic]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

8. Become pr8 and make sure that you provide pr4-6 from other pages.

Well easy to say but not easy to achieve. Anyway I agree with you for all tips
but right now I do not feel ready to invest, do you?

[ilu]

Thats not possible - its all on paper - not practicable as there are lot of strong directory competitors.

[Wrangatan]

Originally Posted by hhheng

I'm suspecting even yahoo directory can't make a profit of $1M per year.

That directory makes tens of thousands a day and many millions a year.

[ThreeGuineaWatch]

Hi,

Thanks for a very useful post. However, taking you up on the second part of point #8. What strategies can be used to elevate the PR of internal pages? Larger directories might contain 1000+ categories and that would mean a devil of a lot of links to your internal pages you'd have to dump (with forum post sigs or whatever other means.) Also, most directories are not keen on deep link entries.

Cheers,

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by ThreeGuineaWatch

Hi,

Thanks for a very useful post. However, taking you up on the second part of point #8. What strategies can be used to elevate the PR of internal pages? Larger directories might contain 1000+ categories and that would mean a devil of a lot of links to your internal pages you'd have to dump (with forum post sigs or whatever other means.) Also, most directories are not keen on deep link entries.

Cheers,

BOTW are trying to build links for every page.

[wmforums]

Originally Posted by hhheng

I'm suspecting even yahoo directory can't make a profit of $1M per year.

are you sure? Biggest directory, charing $299 per year per site? I am sure they make million per week.

great writing..

[sniperhiga]

If you type anything like "website promotion" or "car rentals" or "cheap hotels" on Google or Yahoo... you can take first 50 sites and you will see that at least 30 of them linked from Yahoo directory, so, it mean that Yahoo host hundereds thousands websites and charge trem recruting fee every year ( $299 ).

Take any good paid directory and you will see how many links submitted, 1 000 - 2 000 - 10 000, check how long their online...
Even do easier, check "New Sites" page on pr6-7 paid directories. Some of them have 10-20 new sites a day and they charge $20 - $100+

[WhatiFind]

I made a calculation recently.. (it's not very accurate but could come closeby..)

Botw on the 12-11-2006: http://botw.org/new/all/12112006.cfm, total links added that day: 827, let's say that half of that is non-commercial: so aprox 400 times 49.95USD = 19.980,- USD half of that should be paid to the affiliates of botw so thats 9.990,- times 225 working days = 2.227.500,-

Yahoo on the 12-11-2006: http://dir.yahoo.com/new_additions/20061211/all.html, total links added that day: 321, let say half of them are non-commercial, so aprox 160 times 299USD = 47840,- = no affiliates, so times 225 working days = 10.764.000,-

Maby true, maby not. Who has another opinion about this calculation?

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by WhatiFind

I made a calculation recently.. (it's not very accurate but could come closeby..)

Botw on the 12-11-2006: http://botw.org/new/all/12112006.cfm, total links added that day: 827, let's say that half of that is non-commercial: so aprox 400 times 49.95USD = 19.980,- USD half of that should be paid to the affiliates of botw so thats 9.990,- times 225 working days = 2.227.500,-

Yahoo on the 12-11-2006: http://dir.yahoo.com/new_additions/20061211/all.html, total links added that day: 321, let say half of them are non-commercial, so aprox 160 times 299USD = 47840,- = no affiliates, so times 225 working days = 10.764.000,-

Maby true, maby not. Who has another opinion about this calculation?

A+ for your math.... Thank you.

[Wrangatan]

Originally Posted by WhatiFind

I made a calculation recently.. (it's not very accurate but could come closeby..)

Botw on the 12-11-2006: http://botw.org/new/all/12112006.cfm, total links added that day: 827, let's say that half of that is non-commercial: so aprox 400 times 49.95USD = 19.980,- USD half of that should be paid to the affiliates of botw so thats 9.990,- times 225 working days = 2.227.500,-

Yahoo on the 12-11-2006: http://dir.yahoo.com/new_additions/20061211/all.html, total links added that day: 321, let say half of them are non-commercial, so aprox 160 times 299USD = 47840,- = no affiliates, so times 225 working days = 10.764.000,-

Maby true, maby not. Who has another opinion about this calculation?

Thats probably quite close but I reckon BOTW's is a lot higher, I doubt 50% of there sales come from affiliates. They also have category sponsorship which runs at $720 a year.

[Cantufind]

Originally Posted by ilu

Thats not possible - its all on paper - not practicable as there are lot of strong directory competitors.

You are wrong! Anything is possible, people said I'd never create a free directory script that would have better features than most if not all free versions out there, they were wrong and I created phpLynx Sure it cost me a **** load of money and as we have even better versions being tested it will cost me a lot more, but as the original thread starter makes clear, if you are prepared to invest heavily you can and will gain reward.

[wmforums]

Originally Posted by WhatiFind

I made a calculation recently.. (it's not very accurate but could come closeby..)

Botw on the 12-11-2006: http://botw.org/new/all/12112006.cfm, total links added that day: 827, let's say that half of that is non-commercial: so aprox 400 times 49.95USD = 19.980,- USD half of that should be paid to the affiliates of botw so thats 9.990,- times 225 working days = 2.227.500,-

Yahoo on the 12-11-2006: http://dir.yahoo.com/new_additions/20061211/all.html, total links added that day: 321, let say half of them are non-commercial, so aprox 160 times 299USD = 47840,- = no affiliates, so times 225 working days = 10.764.000,-

Maby true, maby not. Who has another opinion about this calculation?

It looks ok but you have to remember, BOTW said, they rejecting 40% which fee is not refundable and they charging fee for reapply. Same as Yahoo, fee is not refundable eventhough your site is not listed. So it is more like your final anwswer * 1.3 give and take..

[sniperhiga]

I was lucky to spend time with Google people once and we had nice conversation. They did not tell me a lot because it is a big secret, but some things was really interesting.
I asked them about paid directories and they was very familiar with BOTW, Avivadirectory, Iwebtool directory etc... they told me that for now paid directories is OK but one day it could appear in Google "black list". They also told me that only one paid directory has privelege to be "forever online and provide strong links for money". Guess which paid directory? ...
Business dot com ! Google guy words... "They are the same like any other paid directory, but Google will never penalize tham because the name. We can't do anything because if we penalize them for selling links... million people will come anyway on Business to find business or to add their Business in the list. Also, most people who buy their links are not trying to get better positions, they just want to promote their business... this is just regular business owners and they have no clue about SEO"

[maldives]

It is easier said than done! Nevertheless good suggestions.