What according to make a quality directory??

[messey]

What according to make a quality directory??

Here are a few of the points I made:

1. What is the pagerank?
2. Are they using a basic template, or do they offer a unique design?
3. How much are featured listings? And what is the benefit of a featured listing?
4. Do they offer free listings?
5. Try searching their directory for known spam terms like viagra and see if they are listing low quality sites.
6. Does the directory make good use of categories and subcategories? Or do they put hundreds of listings in one category spread across several pages? I have found that getting a link of a deep page of a category is often worthless.

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[rutherford]

One point you've forgotten is traffic - how much traffic does the site get, how often do people actually click on the links to go to sites. Try contacting webmasters who have listings on the directory and seeing if they actually get people coming from their listing in the directory. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[montoya]

I think you hit most of them on the button. The only thing I would is add is how long the directory plans to be online, in other words how long did they register the domain for, some are only in for a quick buck so once the directory hits a certain point they just turn around and sell it.

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[zinedine]

I think that both the traffic and longevity suggestions were good and I would throw in in-bound linking as well, to see how well the directory is marketed. Maybe even just searching on the directory's name in the search engines versus checking the actual linking could also reveal information.

One last point that many people would probably skip over is activity. How many sites does the directory have listed, and more importantly is it growing and are the dead/inappropriate/bad sites being removed? -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[croft]

For me Consideration #1 is by far the most important.

PR is the key in a directory. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[cox]

Originally Posted by croft

For me Consideration #1 is by far the most important.

PR is the key in a directory.

I disagree. Consideration #1 is certainly not the most important, and definitely not "by far". If anything it should be way down the list of what makes the directory quality. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[vikasrocks]

1. What is the pagerank?
Don't really agree on that, pagerank is easily bought and in no way it determines the quality of a site.

2. Are they using a basic template, or do they offer a unique design?
A good indication but I have seen quality directories and heavily promoted directories using a basic template, however I have to agree that most of them they eventually switch to a unique custom made template.

3. How much are featured listings? And what is the benefit of a featured listing?
I don't see why price plays a role in determining the quality of a directory. It might influence the decision f whether I buy a review or not but not my opinion about the directory.

4. Do they offer free listings?
Again, there are quality directories that offer free submissions and quality directories that don't. I can't seem to corelate that with the quality of a directory.

5. Try searching their directory for known -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[jackman]

Hi messey

What makes a quality directory?

According to me any directory that actually sends visitors to the sites listed in it is quality directory.

Anything else is rather irrelevant. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[owais]

1. What is the pagerank?
The pagerank is just the homepage, so no use for you!

2. Are they using a basic template, or do they offer a unique design?
Livable without but if I had to choose to submit to the exactly 2 same directories but one has a unique design I would choose the uniqueness.

3. How much are featured listings? And what is the benefit of a featured listing?
NOT always price = quality. It's dependable.

4. Do they offer free listings?
That does not matter as long as it isn't spam or the submissions aren't quality ones.

5. Try searching their directory for known spam terms like viagra and see if they are listing low quality sites.
Very True

6. Does the directory make good use of categories and subcategories? Or do they put hundreds of listings in one category spread across several pages?

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[taurus]

Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah!, forget everything, single most important thing that makes or breaks a directory is *the owner himself* -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --