Web Directories

**chandubhai** · 02:42 PM

Hey guys.
I have hosted a website and have figured out a way to build the worlds largest directory to beat dmoz. Excellent revenue model to give editors/moderators a constant source of revenues. If you are intrested PM me for details.

**usearchme** · 08-04-2007, 08:27 PM

lol who would wanna own a directory like dmoz !!!

Woc

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-04-2007, 08:29 PM

I think he wants to one-up DMOZ. Of course, he's forgotten two things:

1) Size != quality (to be fair, DMOZ conveniently forgets that as well).

2) DMOZ has about a 9-year head start.

**chandubhai** · 08-05-2007, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

I think he wants to one-up DMOZ. Of course, he's forgotten two things:

1) Size != quality (to be fair, DMOZ conveniently forgets that as well).

2) DMOZ has about a 9-year head start.

Yeah I understand Size != quality. So u mean to say that wikipedia.org is bad too?

**crandall87** · 08-05-2007, 09:42 AM

Why not just tell us about it. It's not going to get very big if you keep the details to yourself.

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-05-2007, 03:50 PM

That's not what I said at all, chandubhai. What I said was that people who assume the 'largest' site is the best in a category, particularly with directories, are often sadly mistaken.

Why focus on a quantitative measure which doesn't have anything to do with the quality of a site?

**ForrestCroce** · 08-05-2007, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by chandubhai

So u mean to say that wikipedia.org is bad too?

I'll say it if nobody else will. Some of the more technical photography articles are just plain wrong on a lot of things. Optics is just something that wikipedians refuse to understand. It's a topic you can't ignore, and gets covered, but it asserts a lot of "facts" that are provably untrue, combines unrelated concepts, and makes useless and artificial distinctions between two sides of the same coin. Democracy means if somebody who understands the subject comes along, and there are 15 editors who "own" a page, ignorance prevails.

The last time I sent somebody there to an article about Lake Tahoe, telling them to look up the depth if they didn't believe me, Wikipedia's article said Lake Tahoe was in Utah. So, naturally, whatever else they have to say about the lake is worthless.

It's not that they're bad ... it's that as huge as they are, anything you read there could be blatantly false. So I stopped trusting any of it.

**chandubhai** · 08-20-2007, 11:54 AM

Umm I understand that. Thats the reason I am here asking for help. Because I believe that SEO's can understand websites better than others. What say. Can we build a better resource than those idiots?

**chrishirst** · 08-20-2007, 09:39 PM

The last people on earth who should get involved in a directory project are SEOs

**chandubhai** · 08-21-2007, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

The last people on earth who should get involved in a directory project are SEOs

Cos all they want is to add links right?

**chrishirst** · 08-21-2007, 08:03 PM

Yep, which for a directory you would think might be a good motivation, but mostly they would be links that benefitted them.

The real SEOs who treat the internet as a resource to be nurtured and grown are few and far between and outnumbered by the abuse everything brigade by 50:1 or more.

**fastreplies** · 10-03-2007, 01:48 AM

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have figured out a way to build the worlds largest directory

Apparently you have no idea what is involved in directory building process.

But then again, if you know, then start something, show what you have to offer
and then ask people to joining you

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