Stop wasting your time and everyone else’s too
Sometime, someday, folks will wake up and realize that referring to 3rd party ratings system is akin to
Directory Marketing Suicide
I have said this before and I will say it again
Third party rating systems are useless and have no place in the Directory Sector
Why, don’t most folks wake up, we are right back where we were in August 2007
http://www.forplex.com/business-directory-articles/directory-market-needs-leadership-and-creativity.html
I see a level of inconsistency that I find incomprehensible, this is an example
A Forum Thread will open about this rating and that rating then folks will post spewing rhetoric about the rating system being useless, flawed, in-accurate etc etc
All of which are in fact 100% True
Then minutes later a Forum Thread will open about example :-
‘Who has a Directory Site rated blah blah’
And guess what yes, the folks who spewed venom in the first thread !
Are postulating like a preened Peacocks that they have a Directory with such a rating
Come on folks you can’t have your cake and then eat it
We and many other owners are sick and tired of the blatant lack of professionalism shown by Directory Owners
Does the Airline Industry talk about traveling by car NO
So why does the Directory Industry talk about 3rd Party Rating Systems ?
Doing that in a nutshell is just 100% giving free promotion to the 3rd Party
What we all need to do, and we need to do it right now is talk 100% about Directories plain and simple i.e the many benefits etc etc
Come on folks show what we are made of as autonomous Directory Owners lets stick together.
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January 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Another close-minded post.
You are the one living and dreaming in good old days. The day where directories exist on their own is long gone. In this highly commercialized web, directories exist for search engines. And what’s wrong with directory owners using PR as part of their promotional tactic, as Google is the number 1 SE at the moment, and PR is a good indicator of the directory’s potential to bring in more SE traffic.
Your post could at least be a little more persuading if you had a decent directory with good PR.
Looks to me you are just ranting over your directory having lost Google’s love. lol
January 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Good post. I think the general problem is that the vast majority of the directory owners are not business people and do not run their directories as a business. The primary principal of that being to provide a quality product or service for their clients in a professional manner. They do not have a plan for their business and because of that struggle with how to run and promote it. They basically just do not understand the underlying principals of running a successful business. This pretty much has most of them whining and groveling when a third party rating system evaluates their site poorly at how unfair they are being treated and if they happen to slide into a good evaluation they of course shout it to the world. A directory owner should run their site with professionalism while working towards established goals as those are the only things that they can truely control.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Well Pete it sounds like a very good idea that you are presenting and i can see where you are coming from but:
In reality, directory owners are not the only ones who will submit to directories. Many others do. So by convincing directory owners not to rely on pr is not doing enough. Ok i agree with you about pr that it has become a great factor in the demise of the directory industry. But the rest of the world only submitted to directories to get link juice so their sites can be ranked high. Alot submitted to aviva because of that reason because aviva had a strong pr. Well, now people won’t submit to aviva because it have a pr 4 and it is penaltize. Well i am a directory owner and i like what jeff did with his site so i’ll submit. Well that makes him 80$, but the rest of the webmasters don’t know jeff and don’t like the work because there is no other rating system other than google and they are all trying to rank high in google. Google come out and say paid links are wrong and not allowed … most people see directories go down so they said well we are not submitting to directories any more so directory business is doom. Poor directory owners have nothing but to moan about pr because their business is gone. Now what can a directory owner do. Not buy links so google doesn’t penaltize them. Well that doesn’t do much does it because how will the world know about your site because you don’t promote. Now you can buy tons of links … and get submissions and you see a month later boom … pr drop .. no more submission as the site is penaltize…
maybe you suggest an alternative solution that is better and the rest of the world forgets about google and follow your lead … then no one will care about third party rating system.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
In my case I think I do that because, well, if you’re gonna catch fish you need to use bait they will like.
Since many webmasters, especially the new ones, don’t have a clue as to how worthless PR is they obviously will look to those with it and, like a moth to the light, will gravitate towards the high PR.
Being a benevolent teacher and seriously interested in promoting the websites that submit their links to my directory I want to attract those newbies before they get forever ruined by the false information.
“PR” is just two tiny letters. It takes more words and time than that to explain why it is so worthless. Not everyone is willing to take the time to learn, however, so we care for them despite their folly