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[drwebs]

Well, I am reviewing a few of my listings. I lost a lot of listings during the move. I have found a few listings that I thought maybe I can link or network with related directories. Below is the listing I rewrote.

http://secwh.com/bead-crafty-charms/

Edit for clarity: In it in link to http://info.vilesilencer.com/directory/crafty-tips within the description.

How can we do more of this? Or is it even worth it? Would it be nice if more people were promoting other types of related resources? I have no real limit to how much of a description I provide.

I don't mind promoting other general link directories. I just want to make sure the others I promote follow the same standards as me. I hardly want to send a visitor over to a link farm or spammy site.

Thoughts?

[Dan]

Now you are using your noggin

I think you could evolve several different ideas out of this one!

I don't want to discourage it so I will only say that I believe the best way to proceed would be to focus on relevancy. So, if the listing is about beads/charms then for best relevancy the site/page you synergise with should be beads/charms related.

I would push niches rather than general directories. Unless of course that particular gen directory had an awesome category that was totally relevant to your listing. That would be decent to synergise with as well.

Of course... there are a lot of possibilities here. You could trial quite a few things. Again. I want to encourage this, not discourage it, so take my suggestions more as a way of tinkering/tweaking than a rule. Throw the rule book out the window

[drwebs]

Thanks Dan, glad to hear this. Very glad. I was just editing the listing when it occurred to me that I could slip a link in it relating to the listing. It's not intrusive at all. I would not want to use keywords I think that would look tacky. No problem naming the site though.

Ideas and more thoughts are always welcome.

Id like to also be able to suggest other directories. I am going to see what kind of plugins I can find to help this.

[BobP]

If it is a link in the middle of a description I think G would see it as spammy, worse if connected to a word(s) in the description even if to an otherwise worthy site. BobP

[drwebs]

Originally Posted by BobP

If it is a link in the middle of a description I think G would see it as spammy, worse if connected to a word(s) in the description even if to an otherwise worthy site. BobP

Nope, I looked, relevant content is not spam. Now, if it was for say a pharmaceutical company or Pill. then yes, spam. Careful with statements like that rumors spread wildly


I think the hard part is going to be getting other directory owners to invest time in content. I forgot to mention the part where it will need to be relevant. You can't just plop a link in somewhere that is completely off topic. Well, you can but it wont be that useful. If the goal is of course usefulness.

[YMC]

I appreciate greatly the sentiment but I'm not sure I understand what you are doing. In the middle of someone else's listing description, you put a link to my site? Isn't that somewhat unfair to the person who submitted and going to dilute their brand a bit?

Granted, it gives the opportunity to make the listing a bit more article-like, but I'm really on the fence about this one. Part of me thinks it's an amazing idea (OK, so I'm a bit biased cause you linked to me ) but the other part of me is not entirely keen on it.

Perhaps if it was done a little differently...Not sure what you could do with all of the amazing beads they sell and need some inspiration? Check out another of our arts and crafts-related sites that has this list of free beading tips to get your creative juices flowing.

I wouldn't put it in the second sentence of the description but closer to the end. Where you have it now doesn't really flow naturally. Depending on how you did it, you could make it more like a related posts functionality. That way it would be more like what people are used to seeing and not sort of short-circuit the description like it does now.

The beading site does have a Tips & Tricks blog-like section. Granted there are no how tos and they all look like PR pieces rather than a tips section. Normally for a site like theirs I might suggest linking to their own article section but there's not much depth there. They remind me of article directory pieces. (They don't appear to be but they sure read like it.)

Are you thinking of doing this on the free listings only or all of them where it works?

[drwebs]

Originally Posted by YMC

Are you thinking of doing this on the free listings only or all of them where it works?

Not sure to be honest. I use WordPress for a directory. My descriptions could be 5000 words if I wanted it to be. That is way more like a blog/article then a directory in that sense. Each link could in essence become an entire blog post. Which actually might be good for content on your directory.

If the content is there and relevant, the link wont hurt anything. Like I said and Dan said, you can't just make a random link that has no place whatsoever. In the case of this listing. It links to other related and USEFUL (which is the key) information.

[BobP]

Originally Posted by drwebs

Nope, I looked, relevant content is not spam. Now, if it was for say a pharmaceutical company or Pill. then yes, spam. Careful with statements like that rumors spread wildly


I think the hard part is going to be getting other directory owners to invest time in content. I forgot to mention the part where it will need to be relevant. You can't just plop a link in somewhere that is completely off topic. Well, you can but it wont be that useful. If the goal is of course usefulness.

Now that I understand we're talking a link(s) in a free article sized review rather then a description, it makes sense for directories getting human traffic viewing the listings as opposed to just bot, spider and submitter traffic. Sounds a little like ask pages.

If I were paying for the review, I wouldn't be happy about a link to my competition, bad enough sharing a category with them. BobP

[drwebs]

Originally Posted by BobP

If I were paying for the review, I wouldn't be happy about a link to my competition, bad enough sharing a category with them. BobP

This sounds like it is not for you then. Simple

I am talking about a small link to a non-competitor site. I see what you are saying but it is not what I am doing. Arguing for for the sake of argument, I looked at Dan's Niche directory list and found only 3 others I might put in a description. And this is IF someone submits a site to me with content that matches and is not competing. Id never add to someones paid listing. They pay for it it's theirs.

A good directory is a resource. No reason I can't offer a resource to visitors. I think you may just be over analyzing what I am doing and what I am showing other people they can do. You do not have to do it. I am not forcing anyone

[BobP]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be that picky. I actually would be interested in a method that locates quality non-competitive or non-commercial (no adsense etc.) sites that aren't on a path (link wheel) that leads to advertising.