Noble Directory Owners Interviews

Bruce, who has been working well and constantly doing good with his directory Authority Directory also won the Directory of the Month for January 2008 at PhpLD forums! It was great to talk to Bruce and to take the Interview He is popular as swedal in webmaster forums!

Here is what it is -

Q. Some Personal Insight Of Yours?
I see questions all the time in forums about starting a directory. For those of you thinking about starting a quality directory it is not an easy path and takes quite a bit of hard work in building a concept to implementing it to gaining a presence. If you are thinking in terms of a quality directory resource be prepared for the time and effort it will take.

Q. From when are you into the web directory world?
I really started gaining an interest in SEO, link building and website promotion in 2005 while promoting another site of mine. While doing that I learned about and gained a strong interest in directories and the services they provided and about a year ago began planning my own directory. It went through about 3 months of planning a concept and another couple months of building and design to become the Authority Directory which was launched in July 2007.

Q. How many directories do you own, and can you please share them?
I currently have one directory, but I am in the planning stages for another directory which will serve a niche and there is a possibility of making one additional directory after that. It really depends on if I feel I can devote the time necessary to do it right.

Q. How do you rate your own directories now?
I would say the Authority Directory compares favorably with most directories currently available. I personally feel it ranks among the top directories, but of course I am a little biased. You can also look to some third parties that don’t have the bias I do for my own site when it comes to rating the Authority Directory. The Authority Directory recently won the January 2008 Site of the Month from phpLD and first runner up for the 2007 Directory of the Year at iGuides.

Q. What kind of promotions you have done for the directories?
I promote using many methods. Some of the methods I have used are press releases, forum signatures, directory submissions, sponsoring free templates, article submissions, directory lists and a couple that I am forgetting right now.

Q. Do you think your directories will rank well in thousands of these?
You are absolutely right there are thousands of directories out there. The thing is that nearly all of those thousands of directories are just not in the same league as the Authority Directory and cannot be compared. I would say that it ranks very well among the other quality directories.

Q. What are your ways of earning in the directory? Only links or Sitewides etc. ?
The only revenue for the directory is through site reviews for possible inclusion to the directory and the site of the day feature for listings to generate additional traffic. That revenue is turned around to further promote the directory.

As far as the site wide links you mention, you will never see them on the Authority Directory nor will there ever be any adsense related things going on.

Q. Do you have future plans on building the directory more?
I always like to make improvements and I do have a couple ideas for additions to the site, but I think I will keep them to myself because I don’t have a specific timeline for them yet.

Q. Which directory script do you think is the best and why?
I like and prefer phpLD. David and the rest of the people there provide great support for their product and are dedicated to producing quality.

Q. What do you think would be the future of directories?
I think the future of directories can be a strong one for the people who are making them if they focus on the visitors that use them. If your intentions are to make a quality resource with quality content for the traffic you receive you can’t go wrong.

Q. What are your suggestions to the upcoming directory owners?
If you’re going to build a directory, build a quality one that will be useful to your visitors.

Q. Lastly, which is your favorite directory?
Other than mine I assume. I do have a few favorites. Some are for design reasons, some for an innovative feature they have and others because I like the owner. I think rather than run the risk of forgetting one or offending someone else I will politely decline this question.

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Directory owners, i want to know your all views about judging directory’s quality before submitting to one. I have added a few polls, so please try to vote for the best answers and share your views by commenting if you think i missed out something as a factor which you check for judging quality of a directory.

I firstly check the directory owner’s name and his experience in the directory world, or how good he has been in the directory world. A new directory owner would not receive good number of submissions in the start, as most of them are not believed by the submitters. As every new directory owner is not promising.
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Forums related to web directories have been in a big buzz these days as there is quite higher activity in some of them, and some are completely dead forums. There has been a lot of controversy these days due to the act of Google on penalizing the directories due to the paid link factors. And due to this PR & paid link talk, Tom from directory-owners.com had shut his directory forums for some days, although people were not sure whether he was really fed up of the posts by people there, or that was a link bait technique used by him to gain some attention.

Anyways directory-owners.com is back now, not so much in action.. But if you are interested to talk more about directories and their related matter, check the list of directory forums.

Nick, popular as NRLMedia in some forums, who was the owner of talkdirectories.com, has sold the forums to Michael Lovatt, who is known as Mikey1090 all around. The change in ownership is announced all around and Mikey is for sure working very well on the forums, and he will surely build it to some great level. Although Mikey has not replied to any topic related to this in other forums, but he has started working on the forums. Check in there for some good new topics.

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Sorry for the absense of posts in this blog since a few months as there were many clashes against directories by search engines, and also i was stuck up with studies.
But anyways going to keep the blog updating by news from the directory world. The major things that lately happened in the directory world are like update of scripts, directory penalization etc.

PhpLD script has released the new version update regarded to be v3.3 in which the major change seen is the article mod in categories. As the directories were hit by search engines for paid links and no content.. The “content is king” concept is implemented in this script.

Couple of days back, there was a buzz all over the directory forums that avivadirectory.com was back into good positions in SERPs after it was penalized and was gradually getting de-indexed in google. There might be some tricks used by Jeff to get back.. He told he might share the trick with other directory owners who have faced penalization.

The MSN girafa thumbnails that are generally used by directory owners in their directories, have been disabled by the MSN guys, so they will not be connected and displayed in your directories, if you are having the MSN girafa code for thumbnails in directories.. You can replace them by snap.com’s thumbnails services.

Posting this through mobile, so can not elaborate more about these stories..
Good luck to all the dir owners.

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I thought i should compile the 10 most wanted Phpld Mods for a general standard directory This is what i would suggest.

• Daily Listing Mod

• Deep Links Mod

• Split Category Links

• Multiple Categories Submission

• Category Sponsorship

• Closed Category Mod

• Contextual Deep Links

• Category Related Links Mod

• Sponsored Ads Mod

• Display recent blog posts on Directory Mod

Hope this list is helpful and most of the directory owners like these Mods, although most are paid.. they are worth it. If you have anything else to suggest. Let me know via comments.

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Blog is a short form of Weblog, which is normally a Online journal and if the blog is updated, the activity is referred to as “blogging”, and the one who updates or blogs is called a “Blogger”.
Before the existance of the blogs, there were some communities to chat in and talk about things. There are thousands and probably more than that full time bloggers around the world, some blogging about their personal life, and some about different niches like health, business, forex, games and gadget reviews.

Blog directories show resources to different blogs and some nice bloggers, and the best blog resources. Also the best blogging platforms are also showcased in different blog directories.

And do people find a difficulty in getting to know about any blog or a blogger? That is what a Blog directory is for

Blog is a big platform for discussions apart from forums and other discussion communties, and many people love blogs for being just different and attractive for each others!

So if you are in need of a blog resource, dont forget finding them in a nice blog directory, where you can also get some nice personal blogs to read in their rants and random stuff!!

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After finishing quite a few directory owners interviews, i thought i should change the trend and go interviewing with some directory Mod creators and writers. Starting with this, i thought off to do it with Anthony, who is known as LeopardAt1 in webmaster forums, and mainly find him at digitalpoint forums. He has a few Mods under his name such as pagerank report of your detail and category pages, a category dump generator, phpLD payment system. It was nice interviewing him.

Here goes the interview -

1. Can you let us know something about your personal background?

Sure. I’m about to turn 22 and my real name is Anthony. Most people know me only by Leopard. Before being interested in developing websites, I was one of those AOL nerds who used Visual Basic to build silly little programs such as punters and bots. Although it was very basic programming, it laid the foundation for me to learn other languages. I started working with databases at around age 16 and since then, been doing mostly freelance work.

2. From when are you into the Web directory world?

Although I didn’t own a directory nor purchased phpLD until April, my interest in the web directory world was in mid February of this year. At first, I had no intention of getting myself into it until I realized it was really exciting.

3. Which directory scripts do you work on specifically?

I work with phpLD primarily due to its large user base established.

4. Is it the inspiration of any other MOD Writer or did you start writing MODS by your own interest?

Even though the only real experience of me working with PHP was developing osCommerce sites, I looked at phpLD and realized I can do a lot with it. At first, I had no interest in building mods until I spent more time on DP. As each day passed, I was able to think of more and more ideas that people may find useful. With each idea came more interest in trying to develop them.

5. What web directories do you own at present?

As of now I only own RipenApples.com and have lots of plans for it. I realized the only way I can make it the way I envision it, is to completely redo the frontend and make it all PERL.

6. Can you list out your work done on MODS in several directory scripts?

Some mods I built so far include RSS news feeds combined with DHTML tabs, a pagerank report of your detail and category pages, a category dump generator, a category meta description generator, and a phpLD Payment system.

7. Do you offer any services of paid MOD installations anywhere?

As of now I only offer installation services to my phpLD Payment System. The system allows no unpaid submissions going inside your phpLD admin, deep links with individual prices, coupons, disabling top level categories, multiple submissions, multiple categories, and more.

8. In the web world, apart from web directories, do you offer or do anything else?

As of now, not really. Before web directories I freelanced a lot building unique custom web applications that included finance tools, e-commerce tools, online football squares, march madness pool manager, and a sports betting simulator.

9. Do you make a new MOD on the request of a directory owner, or by just your own plan?

Both. It depends on the request and if I’m capable or not.

10. Have you felt any difficulty in writing a MOD anytime? Share any experiences!

The mods I built so far were pretty much in my reach. The most difficult one I had to do was the page rank report for detail and category pages. That was when I had to resort to the php Smarty manual and to get my hands dirty with PHP.

11. How can the web directory owners get in contact with you?

I’m on Yahoo! Instant Messenger (username is LeopardAT1) and view my e-mails (anthony[at]dirtracker.com) daily.

12. If you would like to share anything else with us, or other directory owners, please do so!

Try to be unique as much as possible! Work hard and focus on content, which will better the directory industry overall. Also, if you plan on starting a general directory, expect to be patient. Established directories may not come in months, but years.

Thanks for the Interview Anthony! We were glad you took out time and gave the interview.

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There have been many interviews being taken and have already been taken by many people. These interviews includes major Directory Script owners, web directory owners and web directory designers. Many of these interviews provide ideas and inspiration to the other and newbie directory owners.A few major sites that take interviews of these great people are -

http://www.directory-owners.com/ – A web directory owners forum, taken several interviews.
http://www.nobledirectory.com/directory-owners/ – Ourselves, taken a couple interviews till now. Planning to do more soon.
http://www.dirten.com/ – Blog sharing interviews and some inspirational posts about directories.
http://www.directorykit.com/ – Taken a few interviews, and shares directory tips.
http://www.web1directory.com/blog/ – Has an inspirational interview of a directory owner
http://www.thedirectoryblog.com/ – shares information about directories, and owners interviews.
http://www.webdirectoryreviews.com/ – Reviews of the directory + Interview of the same directory owner. Done quite a few interviews.

There are a few others, would be shared soon.

Here are the Directory Owners interviews taken till now, might be more but i could find only these -

• Interview with David DuVal Owner of PHP link directory

• Interview with Paul, Owner of WSN Links Script WSN Link Directory

• Interview with Stuart C. McHenry, President, Site Sift Media, Inc.

• Interview with Kev – Owner of PhpLynx Script

• Interview with Simon Gooffin of esyndicat

• Interview with Chris Hoffman owner of Alive Directory

• Interview with John Scott owner of V7N Directory

• Interview with Peter Laws Owner of Pedsters-Planet Directory

• Interview with Jeff of Aviva Directory

• Interview with Bruce Stone owner of WoW Directory

• Interview is with Temi Odurinde owner of Haabaa.com

• Interview with Fabio Cuffaro owner of Massive Links Directory

• Interview with the Loren Baker of Umdum Directory

• Interview with Brent Champagne@Best Web Directories

• Interview with Marlin of Index-It Web Directory

• Interview with David Eaves of Biz-Dir Web Directory

• Amit Patel – Owner of GII Interviewed

• Interview with Jeffrey Behrendt – Aviva Directory

• Interview With A Directory Owner Who Has 50+ Directories – Malcolm

• Directories Battlefield – Let The Battle Begin – Loredan

• Interview with C. Bejenaru, lead programmer of Php Link Directory

• Interview with Mike Dammann about the Directory Contest

• Finally the eye speaks: Info Vilesilencer Interview

• Interview with one of the more experienced people in the directory field

• Phynder of DP fame, talks about his Un-Directory project!

• Interview with smub of idk.in

• Vegabond – AllTheLink.com Owner

• Sander Baumann – DirSpace.com Owner

• Damien Mase – DirectoryCritic.com Owner

• Simon Gooffin – eSyndicat CEO

• Mike Dammann – The man behind DirectoryContest.com and owner of FrogEngine.com

• Ben Johnson from PhpMyDirectory

• Gabriel Harper from PhpLinkBid

Here are the Directory Designers interviews taken till now, might be more but i could find only these -

• Shabu Anower: A PHPLD Template Designer – Interview

• Interview with Zeb (Agent47) – Designer

• Interview with Marko Petkovic – Designer

• Interview with Emillie Loh

Here are a few directory reviews + owners interviews taken by WebDirectoryReviews.com -

• Dmoz/ODP Web Directory

• BQTM Directory Presentation

• Bidding Directory Review for Zorg Links

• Directory Share Review

• UK One Way Links Directory Review

• Noble Directory Review

• Indie Coffeehouse Arts Directory

• Web Talk Directory Reviewed

• KingBloom Directory Review

• eSyndicat Directory Script – By Web Directory Reviews Network

Please share any other Interviews if they are not here, and i would add them. This would make an ultimate resource for newbies to learn something from the seniors.

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A few days back, webdirectoryreviews.com had reviewed Noble Directory which made us change some things and plan some more changes in our directory.

You can check out the review of Noble Directory.

Here is a part of the review -

Directory has no broken links that we noticed. This directory has real potential, it already has a good pagerank of 4, and expecting possibly pagerank of 6, inner pages and detail pages also have pageranks. Noble, although doesn’t have too many active links, but has some helpful content. For example I never knew there was something called “Tollywood”, I was aware of only Bollywood and Hollywood, but “tollywood”? Now I know !! . There are quite a few mods installed which increase the overall functionality of the directory, for example the “A-Z listings Mod” and “Sitemap”. Directory also offers lots of Deeplinks for regular and featured listings. Submission process is simple, but the guideline instructions are not that readily visible, maybe Chetan might want to put them on the submission page itself. Overall a good directory but still would give 9/10 for lacking a unique design and malformed logo/header.

Else is my answers to the questions in the interview. Check it out

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Noble Directory network announces a new directory from its SEO Company site SEO Company India, it is the SE Friendly Web Directory.

Its a PR4 directory, and is well established, but we had not announced it till now, and its gaining good pace. Deep links mod and a few other mods are going to be placed soon.

Pricing for featured links – $75/year

Pricing for regular links – $25 permanent link

Submit now to get a nice backlink, who knows the price might change sooner or later. It has been promoted well as a part of my SEO Company, and will be worked on better and better.

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