New Directory Websites Added + Advertising Opportunity

I am now up to a total of 28 Directories now. Check them out at: this link I added one that lists American made products or businesses located anywhere in America. I also started one dealing specifically with travel-related websites, one dealing with health-related sites. I use a 3rd party text link broker to provide paid advertising from various companies wishing to advertise. because of the range of topic areas that the various sites provide, and the number of pages that are available for advertising opportunities, the income is growing. The text ads provide income simply by placing the ad onto the requested page without someone having to click on the ad to get to the customers site. Once a new Directory site is created, all I have to do is add it to my text ads Control Panel, and the pages are available for ad placement. Click on Text Link Broker if you wish to use this no-cost advertising program. Mike Dippel

Benefits of running 26 Online Directory Websites

After many years of creating niche Directory websites, I now feel like I have most niches covered. When someone submits a site to one Directory, I find it possible to add it to another as well. Each Directory has a matching category that fits the criteria as well. This really benefits the submitter by adding exposure to their website without any additional effort on their part. To make it more enticing for the submitter to pay for a Premium listing, I now run a script on every Directory that places their Premium listing at the top of their specific category, on every inner page of these Directories as a random link, and on the Home Page as well. A complete list of my Directories can be found here: https://www.hobbyline.com/aboutus.htm With 26 Directory sites, one of which will certainly fit the criteria of any website. Feel free to submit your site to any of these, and consider making it a Premium listing to get maximum exposure. It is certainly the best way to maximize your advertising dollars.

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Mobile Web Directories

With today's mobile technology, it is a good idea to provide a version of your website that can be easily viewed on a mobile phone. I have begun the process of creating a mobile version that uses the same database as the normal one. An example can be found at http://careerseeker.biz. Viewing this site via a desktop computer will give a different result than from a mobile phone.

I use a script on the static site that detects the type of browser, so it can send the user to the mobile site, if necessary. All functions are visible on both versions, including the display of a Google map for Premium listings. Both sites allow link submissions for both a normal and a Premium listing, and both have a PayPal integration for the Premium listing fee.

The script that I use is the latest version of PowerSeek version 6. In my estimation, it still is the best script available to operate a Directory. I have found that the mobile version has to run as a 'Dynamic' site and as a 'Medium-sized' directory to make everything work properly.

I run the mobile version as a Dynamic site so the database doesn't have to be built into static HTML pages every day. They automatically display any new changes made on either version. I just included a 'noindex,nofollow' tag so the pages aren't duplicated by Google.

I run the mobile version as a Medium-sized directory to allow users to submit to the directory. I found that running it as a Large-sized directory will not allow submissions because the script looks for a particular category to submit to, and the dynamic version does not provide that information.

Please give me feedback. I am always looking for ways to improve the quality, and any suggestions would be appreciated.

Expanding the possibilities

Long ago, I decided to create a regional Directory ( http://etalii.info ). One that will list any site, from anywhere, and categorize each by their own city. Because I own 19 Directory websites, I get tons of submissions every day. My goal is to add any site that contains full address information to this regional Directory, and it is expanding very rapidly both in popularity and Alexa ranking.

I also decided to add an extra field to this Directory to list the county that the business resides in, and to make this field searchable. This way, visitors can do a search for all businesses in a particular county.

The problem was that I haven't found any businesses that list their counties on the website. It was easy to find the solution: http://uscounties.com/zipcode_finder.html

With this tool, I can easily look up the county by simply searching the zip code.

This may seem like a lot of work, but I believe it is worth it. I have found that if you use the tools available, and you are willing to put the time and effort into the creation of a quality site, it will pay off in the end.

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Google +1 Button

The Google +1 button. Is it worth it? I always tend to jump on any new offerings from Google. They always seem to be at the forefront of search technology. I added the button to every page of all of my Directory websites, and have been monitoring them ever since. It doesn't appear that anyone is using them but me.

The +1 button is a way for visitors to say they 'Like' a specific page, so I include information in the email that is sent to the site submitter that they can locate their new listing's 'More Info' page and click the button. I just can't figure out why no one is using it.

Has anyone seen any positive feedback on this new button?