Comments on: The History of Paid Directories https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Thu, 12 May 2011 13:47:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-2#comment-74726 Thu, 12 May 2011 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-74726 Hi Paul – Great info. Do you have a list of the directories that you recommend most?

I’ve actually never heard of Family Friendly Sites – going to submit to it now.

]]> By: Ronnie T. Dodger https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-2#comment-4054 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:58:08 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-4054 Paul, wasn’t the reason for UncoverTheNet being wiped from the index because of MyWebNews, who allegedly hijacked their pages? MyWebNews is now defunct, but a look back into the Archives reveals that they were scraping the UTN website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070309160412/http://mywebnews.net/

]]> By: Paid Surveys https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-2#comment-4006 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:06:35 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-4006 This is exactly why I hardly ever use paid directories. If I have paid $50+ for in a link in one of these, only to fine its been hit with a Google ban I would be very frustrated. I only ever do a few free directory submissions, and apart from DMOZ, Yahoo, BOTW and Joeant I don’t really bother. Unfortunately its too hard to say whether they really do have an impact on your websites Rankings so people continue to pay for it anyway.

]]> By: Ted https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3875 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3875 Well, I can show you more counter-examples than yours, where directories which accept crap sites have good PR. Can you offer explanation for those cases if I reveal them? 🙂

The point is, PR is useless when it comes to measuring the quality of a directory.
So, your statement vouching for the relationship between PR and site quality is simply baseless.

]]> By: Blanca https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3825 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:05:28 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3825 thanks for your reply to my post. I will continue to focus on content.

]]> By: Matt https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3819 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:51:42 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3819 Its a hard time for directory owners, thats for sure.

]]> By: SeanM https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3743 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:21:49 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3743 Great information to help decide on whether to pay to have your site listed on a directory like that or not.

]]> By: Eva White https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3736 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:40:41 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3736 Building a good directory and then maintaining its pr has to be one of the toughest jobs today. Specially when people are trying to push their web pages into search engines.

]]> By: Web Hosting Coupon Codes https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3718 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:19:42 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3718 The alive directory thing was the worse. Many people spend hundreds of dollars on links from that directory

]]> By: Pushkar https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html/comment-page-1#comment-3567 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:11:44 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-history-of-paid-directories.html#comment-3567 The value of directories as far as link value is concerned, have come down heavily in the last year or so which makes sense too.

As far as Alive and Aviva are concerned, they had crossed all the lines, so really they can’t complaint though I feel of the owners since I know both of them had worked really hard on their directories

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