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I often questioned (and laughed) about my decision on letting my web directories clean and family-friendly.

People always said to me that having casino and gambling sites listed in my web directories, especially my bidding directories, will bring top dollars flowing in to me.

That is partly true. I’ve seen a short period of ’shortage’ in revenue due to keeping my directory clean and family-friendly. For example, up to this time, I have rejected and refunded almost $300 total bids from casino/gambling related sites this past 2 months.

However, keeping my directory clean and family-friendly does bring in more revenue in the long run - I believe advertisers and link bidders that avoid bad neighbourhood are more likely to place bids or purchase links on my clean web directories.

A word of advice - you should start clean and family-friendly right from the beginning of your web directory llife. Doing so in the middle is troublesome and actually put your web directories in a questionable state - link submitters will think, “Will it stay clean?” or “This web directory is indecisive - not a good directory.” - think about it.

So, if you interested in having your directories attract more ‘clean’ submissions, avoid accepting links from the casino/gambling related sites.

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I’m proud to announce that all my web directories are now environmentally friendly.

I joined CO2Stats, a company that aim to make websites green - they purchase carbon offset for every carbon footprint the websites make, eventually making the websites carbon neutral.

When you visit one of my web directories, you can see the badge that certify that my websites are ‘green’:

If you click on the badge, you will see stats about how much carbon footprint made by your websites, websites’ visitors, and the server you run your websites on.

Consider this - every time you visit my websites, your visits are powered by 100 per cent green energy!

It’s time for webmasters and web directory owners go green, because it is us who use the energy to run servers and websites.

Cheers!

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I would like to announce the newest member of the Bidpreneur Directory Network - Ergova Directory.

It’s a free general directory with no sign-up, no reciprocal and fast approval policy, with 700 sub categories spread accross 13 main category. Ergova Directory also hold a no-spam and friendly links policy - Frequent spammers will have their IP banned and illegal or questionable sites will not be received in this directory.

Ergova Directory also offers featured link at $6.95, with 5 available spots at each category.

It is well promoted and hopefully it will grow to be one of the top directories on the Net.

So, submit your links for free today

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Today is not a really good day for my directory networks - Some of my bidding directories are experiencing a drop in PR, one increases in PR and the rest stays the same.

Not really sad, actually - because I know beforehand that there will be challenges on my new directories in maintaining the PageRank. I’ve promoted well and build backlinks hard - including with those of higher PR to ‘pull’ my directories PR.

Here’s a brief summary of what I’ve done with my directory network and the (oh not so good) outcomes

• English Fair Bidding Directory
  Still an authority of my directory network - has been a PR5 with 200+ visitors/day bidding web directory for at least 3 google PR updates.
• Tookle Bidding Directory
  This is the hardest hit directory I have - Although it is the most trafficked bidding web directory I have, it certainly proves that link building is very important in term of PR. I’ve promoted it well, but alas, the result is not that good. Hopefully in the next update, its PR will go up again
• BlacPac Bidding Directory
  Acquired in July 10, 2008, I’ve worked hard for this already strong directory. However, Google thinks it is still lacking popularity - hence, the PR is dropped from 4 to 3. I firmly believe it will be back to PR4 in the next update!
• Bidpreneur Bidding Directory
  A truly newcomer, only get the PR it deserves - 0.
• NPX01 Bidding Directory
  This is the only bidding web directory in my network that has gone up in PR, from 2 to 3. Apparently my promotion and link building is just right for this directory - you can see it’s backlinks - quite powerful, I might add.
• Directory Dub Bidding Directory
  A fairly new bidding web directory I have - has just transfered ownership to me about 10 days ago. A drop from PR 1 to 0 is understandable.
• Purple Spider SEO Bidding Directory
  I buy this non-dropped domain name at the wrong timing - I’m slow in doing link building and promotion, hence Google kick it @ss from PR 3 to PR 1. Backlinks are limited, resulting in a weak directory. Hopefully it will jump back to PR 3 in the next update after being heavily promoted!
• CEO Bid Directory
  Only 3 days old - so it sticks to PR 0.
• Camrosecs General Directory
  250+ visitors per day says it all. PR-wise, it sticks to PR3.
• Microtecture Design Niche Directory
  This niche directory drops from PR 3 to PR 2 simply due to the young age of the directory. Next update, it will go back to PR3 - I bet on it
• AdanaCup General Directory
  The newest acquisition of my directory network - an already strong performer, it has no problem whatsoever to stay to PR 3. Even I surprised that it’s not go up to PR4. Perhaps on the next update?

Yes - I know what you mean - PR is not everything, yet I mentioned it a lot. To me, PR is one of the measurement I use to rate my SEO (I rely more on SEOmoz’s Page Strength - now Trifecta). Plus, having a good PR is beneficial for my directory, as well as the link bidders.

So, yes - Although not the most important, this PR updates is quite important to me.

Now, get to work

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I just acquired a good general directory with good traffic - Adana Cup Directory.

Adana Cup is an interesting name for me - Adana is the fifth most populous city of Turkey. So, am I acquiring the directory because of its name? I guess so

Like many stand-alone general directories out there, Adana Cup Directory offer free, no sign-up, no reciprocal with manual approval. Hopefully I can make it unique in term of service offered and content to even add value to the already good start.

At the moment, Adana Cup Directory accepts featured link, at $4.95 - valid for one year.

Submit your websites to Adana Cup Directory now

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