Hello,
I have gone through the tedious process of submitting my hosting company to various web hosting directories. As some of you may know, this is a real pain. I was considering writing a Perl script that would have you enter all the info that you have about your company and plans, and then it would submit it to as many web hosting directories as I can find. If anyone would be interested in this, please let me know. I would charge a small fee to use it, not very much though (just enough to make it worth all the time writing the thing, nothing outrageous). Thanks.

I`m interested if it isn`t to much! :D

Oh yeah, also give me an estimate on what you would think is reasonable for something like this, assuming it submits to around 75-100 directories, thanks.

Keep me in mind as well

I'd be interested in using it!

Don't forget our directory :)

Good luck with the script.

Man this would save a lot of time point me down to.. :)

I'd be interested in using it!

Originally posted by SaluHost
Oh yeah, also give me an estimate on what you would think is reasonable for something like this, assuming it submits to around 75-100 directories, thanks.

Well, I don`t know. What do you all think a fair deal would be then? How much to just buy the script? :D

Yes, if you can write it - we will buy it! :)

Well, this will come down to demand elasticity. I am sure there is plenty of demand, so when you tell us the price, and since its basically a monopoly, you can charge whatever you want, (not thousands of course!)

If it works with most of the big hosting dir. i would be happy to pay :)

Originally posted by dherman76
Well, this will come down to demand elasticity. I am sure there is plenty of demand, so when you tell us the price, and since its basically a monopoly, you can charge whatever you want, (not thousands of course!)


Can I kick you now? ;)

--Tina

Are you threatening me ? :):angry:

Im interested!

Chris

I could possibly see paying $19.99->$79.99 for this service. Is that too much? or too little?

That's a pretty big price range. Depending on the number of sites it submitted to, and the quality of the sites, I would be willing to pay around $49. That's IF it submitted to at least 10 good ones.

--Tina

I think it would be worth at least $40 for submitting to 100 web host directories. :D

OKay, 10 good ones and 90 that aren't so bad. ;)

--Tina

Yeah, very true. Lets not turn it into a FFA links engine however, those are a rip off!

LOL, Yeah!

You know, I've noticed a new trend in some hosting index sites - they'll invite me (spam!) to list my site with them. I'll go to their site and it looks like a HostSearch type site....no problem.

After a few minutes of searching for the "Add URL" link - I find out that I have to PAY to get listed!!! ARGH!

--Tina

What if us "hosting sites" conglomerated into forming a central NO ADS, JUST FACTS hosting directory? Think this would work?

Yes - but I have a suggestion as well. What about a "if you advertise with us you can't be listed" type rule? That would take all conflict of interest out of the mix.

Also, I would like to see hosting companies have the option of posting ONE reply to a customer review.

Anyone interested?

--Tina

Well, are any hosting companies interested? Maybe we can work on this? Shoot me an email at info@icomputerservices.com or ICQ me at 29294588 and lets do something about this

How about something like a, oh I don`t know, Web Hosting Mafia! :D
I would just happen to have a great domain that I would donate!

I think if you can get 1/2 of the site fromYahoo's hosting Dir. (http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Communications_and_Networking/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web/Network_Service_Providers/Hosting/Web_Site_Hosting/Directories/) and they all worked and you updated the script and worked witht he dir. to make it easy for you to make this script. You could charge from 19.99 up 99.95 and base the price on how many it subits to.

If you want to just make the script and sell it out right and give updates to the script as need i would say a Flat 199.99 and fee upgrades for a year.

Got think if you made a good working script to Submit to all the hosting dir. about 50 to 70 so so good ones and it could submit all your palns at one time to them. You could make a killing off of it. As there is a ton of hosting co. out there i would think it would not be hard to pay for its self if done right as there would be nothing else liek it. But would be a lot of work.

how about a search directory, with sellers/resellers as moderators (ala Open Directory). There would be no ads but, a nice page with a listing of the moderators, a short description of their biz and a link.

Oh yeah, also give me an estimate on what you would think is reasonable for something like this, assuming it submits to around 75-100 directories, thanks.

That is what i am looking for long long time ago. Submitting our web hosting company to web hosting dir is really a very pain jobs. Its takes me up to weeks for the 100+ submission site.

You may charge by monthly exp: $10/mo

this can guarantee your income (long terms) and make sure other people will not distribute your script freely or resell your script.

You can refer to I Need Hits ! (http://www.ineedhits.com) . They charge by how many search engines you want to submit start from $2.50 on time!


all the best

:beer:

The top 10 hosting directories differ a great deal on the fields you have to submit to, how would you get round that problem with an automated script?

Rather than selling the script, I'd go for selling the service. Unless you update your plans regularly you slip down the rankings of the search results.

If the script worked, youve got a captive market!

I believe that there is already a service who does the submission to the web hosting directories, isn't it right?

Red Orange or something like that...

BTW, they keep changing the submission scripts at each site - as the owner of a we hosting directory - I can tell you it will be really difficult to keep up.

Red Orange dont have an automated system though, its a one man band entering data. Ron Dunlap

You can get that service from any marketing agency.

Let me know when it's ready... great idea!

Cheers.
Rob.

To the person that said that the top 10 directories all require different fields: yes that is true. However, I would look at each big site and gather all the different questions that they have and combine them into one form that you fill out. Then it would just submit to each one the appropriate info. I'm currently working on it right now, I'll let you guys know how it goes. The structure I'm looking at is to make it a 2 script system. The first is all your basic info, and the second is your plan info. Then after you enter those two, the script loads all the files in a directory and submits to each web hosting directory based on the template files. This would allow expansion on the script and what directories it submits to without having to modify the script.

hmm, don't know about it...


I know it saves a lot of work - but doing the submission through a third party component doesn't seem right.

I mean it's not just URL Title and Description.

It's much more than that and the information you submit will determine whether your company will have clients or not.

So.. again... hmmmm....




Cheers!

Lonny I agree with you! ;)

If you want to get the best results from a directory then you need to spend a little time on your submissions, an automated script might work, but you wont get the most out of the submission process.

However I'm still sure theres a market for such a product, after all how many search engines submission sites are there.......

Well that's your opinion. Again I've gone through a lot of different directories and they all pretty much ask variations on the same questions. I wouldn't add a directory if I didn't have enough questions to fill it out completely. I have yet to come across a directory that asks completely different questions from all the others, so it shouldn't be a problem.

After looking at some of the directories, I've decided it would probably be better to write this in VB (Visual Basict) or VC++. Yes I know VB sucks, but it IS nice for some things (namely simply Windows API and simple GUI programs). I'll keep updates coming as I come across them.