I’ve been seeing a lot of activity on the webmaster forums lately, and it appears that Bid For Position directories are the newest craze to hit the webmaster world. The concept is simple, you bid as much as you can afford for the top spot in the directory. The more you pay, the higher your site appears.
This is great for the directory owner, but can prove costly for dedicated website owners. However, a bit of friendly competition never hurt anyone! It’s a vast difference to the other traditional style of directory too.
You can find a list of the Strongest Bid-For-Position directories, which is being updated frequently.
The Forplex Business Directory is a PR4 (sometimes PR5 dependent on the Google datacenter) business niche directory with a very clean and stylish frontend. The template was designed by the RealWD Team, helping it to stand out from the free templates.
Even for a business directory, there are only 301 active links (at the time of writing), which shows that the directory owner is selective with the links he accepts. The directory is quite a cheap paid directory, with prices starting at just $6 for a normal yearly link.
The directory does have strong backlinks in the major search engines, and is predicted a PR5 in the next google update. Each of the top level categories carries a page rank of 2 or 3, but the next level down tends to be page rank 0. However, this is likely to change with the next google PR update.
If you’re after a high quality business directory, with cheap links, few outgoing links and strong page rank, then Forplex Business Directory is a directory worth submitting to.
If you’re looking for a list of paid directories, then Paid Directory List is probably what you are after. It lists the prices and page rank of paid directories.
It’s a free service, and you can suggest your link for free with the following information:
- Site name
- Page rank
- Category
- Google back link
- Alexa rank
- Inclusion Price
- Recurring
It would be nice to see an easier way to suggest links in the near future. However, this is a great new project to help organise paid directories. Paid directories are more complex compared to free directories, and I’m happy to see someone has recognised that paid directories need a different way to organise them compared to free directories.
