Exclusive Directory - Is Your Site Good Enough?

[guerilla]

Your Problem

You need to promote your online business in the search engines, but almost every service you see relies on spam or automated link building, both of which are yielding diminishing returns over the last year.

Your Other Problem

Everything you do in marketing seems to be "one shot". You build links, and then either improve rankings or not. Your links don't get better over time. You write content, and it gets discovered and read, or not. In most cases the marketing work you do has to be worked on, again and again and again, again with diminishing returns.

On top of these two big problems, you want to

1. Drive traffic to your website

2. Control your content, updating as necessary

3. Capture more leads and generate more sales

4. Create engagement with your brand​

CommunitySEO is Your Solution

Get listed on a site that features other great small businesses like SerpIQ, MicroSiteMasters, and big businesses and brands like eBay, Amazon, Paypal, Facebook, Wikipedia.

We're a moderated, good-neighborhood directory. Every submission is checked by hand and compared against our published guidelines. No exceptions, we won't let garbage or spam into this site no matter how much money they offer to throw at us.

See some of our profiles




Matt Cutts on Directories

When considering submitting to a directory, I’d ask questions like:

- Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.

We are very stringent about keeping web spam out of this directory. We recently rejected several paid submissions because they didn't cut the mustard.

- What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are still quite low-quality or spammy. That doesn’t speak well to the quality of the directory.

Low quality submissions are exactly what we won't accept.

- If there is a fee, what’s the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url or site.

Our fee is to maintain the listing over the year (constantly improving it), continue development of the site's feature and traffic, as well as to check new submissions against our guidelines.

source: How to report paid links


Some of our Features

* Responsive web design (looks great on mobile, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs)

* Links to your website's social presence at Youtube, Google+, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin to enable new connections

* Short (150 chars) and long descriptions (500 chars) allow for lots of unique text about you brand, business and market

* Embed YouTube and Vimeo video to increase engagement (time on page) and to communicate with visual learners.

* Specifically link to more resources and key pages on your website to drive traffic directly to the most crucial areas of your website.

* Name, Address and Phone Number for local SEO citation and mapping to help identify your real world presence.
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Limited Time Special Offer

Normally, we charge $179 for a lifetime listing

Until the end of November, it's $97 for a LIFETIME listing.

This is of course conditional that the website(s) you're submitting pass our quality check.

Our Guarantee: If for any reason you want to remove your listing during the first 30 days after approval, we will refund your money, no questions asked.


Click HERE to see if your domain qualifies for CommunitySEO.

 

[guerilla]

A note about CommunitySEO:

We built our website completely from scratch, and now have more than 10,000 lines of code powering the backend of CommunitySEO. While there is always more stuff to improve and work on, we've enlisted dozens of people to help us go over the site, notice weaknesses, and create more value in the listings.

And we're not even close to being done as far as I am concerned. I have a vision for this website and at this time, I would say we're less than 25% of the way there. Even today, development is ongoing to make improvements and to add features.

There is nothing I am willing to overlook. Our onpage, our microformats, our page speed, everything is on the table. It's not good enough for me to build a directory, it has to be the best directory anyone has ever seen when we're "done".

By listing now, you're getting the best of what I have to offer. This is my only project. I work on it every day, 7 days a week.

 

[Grindstone]

For the last two or three months, my skype group chats have been privy to some interesting conversations:

"WTF is guerilla building anyway?"

"some stupid web directory project or something..."

"that's a horrible domain for it"

"what a idiot (sic)"

I thought about correcting them, as I've seen this project go from idea to inception to (for now) completion, but ultimately, I kept my mouth shut. Ignorance should be painful.

And lettuce be cereal, most of us aren't building sites that will make the cut for this directory. But those of you who are building high quality ecomms, and those of you doing SEO/Design for legit brick and mortars, getting included in this directory is the best thing that could happen to you and your clients. I'm not going to give out too many details, as Guerilla isn't focusing on the SEO end of things, but if you do SEO, and you can get your site on here, gladly pay the man and thank him later.

No exceptions, we won't let garbage or spam into this site no matter how much money they offer to throw at us.

I love CSEO for it's power. I hate CSEO because Guerilla denies most of my submissions, even though I tried to offer much more than his asking price many times now. I look forwad to seeing what this looks like three months from now.

 

[Winston_McFail]

Can you clarify a bit on exactly what types of sites are accepted? Specifically, "high quality" blogs, and authority forums accepted?.. or are you strictly targeting ecomm?

Also, I've considered a similar project in the past and have a few ideas/suggestions/:2twocents: if you're open to it.

Clean looking site, btw.

edit: I see you have TechCrunch so obviously blogs are accepted, and it is manually judged/accepted?

 

[dmnEPC]

I personally would trust damn near anything this man puts his name behind. Guerilla is one of the most honorable guys on WF

 

[IceToEskimos]

I don't have a stamp of approval, but if I did, I'd put it on this project.

 

[aim100]

For $97, i get accepted in 1 directory?

 

[guerilla]

Can you clarify a bit on exactly what types of sites are accepted? Specifically, "high quality" blogs, and authority forums accepted?.. or are you strictly targeting ecomm?

We're open to all sorts of sites, the question is, what purpose does this site serve?

If it is a link farm, or it is a splog, or a flog, or an affiliate lander, or stuffed with keyword content (don't think anyone does this anymore, but just in case) that's rubbish as far as I am concerned.

We want businesses starting out and established. We want sites where people login and post or comment. We'll take curated collections of cat art, as long as the site isn't made specifically to promote Adsense or some shady affiliate stuff.

If your site does, or is capable of delivering value to the end user, then it's 99% likely it's good enough for us. If you built the site to please Google's algo rather than the people who will visit the site, then it's probably not good enough.

Also, I've considered a similar project in the past and have a few ideas/suggestions/:2twocents: if you're open to it.

Thanks. You're welcome to PM them to me anytime. I've tried to incorporate feedback from a lot of people into this.

Clean looking site, btw.

Thanks. The design is by fatbat.

edit: I see you have TechCrunch so obviously blogs are accepted, and it is manually judged/accepted?

Right now, I am the sole judge. I look at every site that gets submitted.

And yes, we'll accept blogs. There are thousands of awesome blogs out there that are worthy of being in any decent directory.

Blogs running WP Robot or full of splog content, no thanks. Also, no ALN type sites where the blog is obviously just a dump for SEO content and links.

Any more questions, keep it coming (I can only reply 2x per day)

If anyone has a domain they want to check before they submit (submitting takes like, 3 mins) PM it to me and I will look at it ASAP.

For $97, i get accepted in 1 directory?

You get accepted into this directory providing your site qualifies.

This is not some 1000 directory submits for $11 offer done by some dude in SE Asia.

You're getting in on the ground floor of a long term project.

 

[Kaedus]

For $97, i get accepted in 1 directory?

I don't think you get it. It's funny to me because people pay me $500-$1000 for one link that is of a lower value than this one. You know how much people pay to get listed in the Yahoo directory? Or how much they would pay to get listed in dmoz if they could bribe an editor?

I'm in for a few listings.

 

[Sevenhelmets]

Guerilla - awesome job man. I was a bit skeptical at first, but the site looks fantastic, and as long as it stays supremely quality like this, you're on to a good thing (and so am I, seeing as I'm getting in on the ground floor on this).

I just bought 1 listing, will be buying a few more for client sites shortly.

Heads up though - I added another site (which you accepted), but I decided I wouldn't go ahead with buying a listing for it. There's no way of deleting the site from the dashboard. I clicked "Edit this site", but there are only spaces to add further info about the site - no where to remove the site.

 

[Pb.com]

You're getting in on the ground floor of a long term project.

Would you care to expand on this?


Btw, if you look strictly at PR, PR4 for the directory, 5 for the parent site. $100 (one time fee) is a good value for a private directory. Might be even higher depending on what guerilla has up his sleeves.

I'll order a few. Shouldn't have a problem getting accepted :thumbsup:

 

[guerilla]

Guerilla - awesome job man. I was a bit skeptical at first, but the site looks fantastic, and as long as it stays supremely quality like this, you're on to a good thing (and so am I, seeing as I'm getting in on the ground floor on this).

I just bought 1 listing, will be buying a few more for client sites shortly.

Thank you very much.

There's no way of deleting the site from the dashboard.

Going on our list... Cancel submission button with "are you sure?" prompt. I've already moved that one out of your account for now.

Thanks for the feedback, this is how we get better.

Would you care to expand on this?

This isn't something we whipped up with Wordpress and a plugin, or some mass-market directory script.

I am very serious about building the best possible directory, both in terms of direct and indirect value to each entry. We have been working on this for months, and I see us working on it for at least several more months. There is so much we can do yet, there are so many opportunities we can take advantage of to make this truly great.

$97 right now is quite frankly a steal. I want to appeal to and reward early adopters who help us get better, show us where the problems are, where there are more great things we can be doing.

I will write more about this in a day or so.

Btw, if you look strictly at PR, PR4 for the directory, 5 for the parent site. $100 (one time fee) is a good value for a private directory. Might be even higher depending on what guerilla has up his sleeves.

It is a very good value. I have a few things up my sleeves yet. We implemented a change late last night to improve internal linking which should benefit the visibility on and offsite for paid submissions.

I'll order a few. Shouldn't have a problem getting accepted :thumbsup:

Right on.

 

[thehobbster]

I was lucky enough to be an a special lil skype chat group that let me hop in on the beta testing. That was a pretty sweet deal, and I got to help out while getting a freebie submission.

The backend, the frontend... everything about this is really slick. I was impressed enough that I submitted four more sites... two were rejected!

The rejections made me so happy, because it only confirmed that Guerilla isn't going to allow anything below his standards into this directory. These standards are pretty high, which tells me I got in early, at a special life-time price, into what is eventually going to be as powerful of a link as the big top two directories.

If you are an agency man, and have clients, every single one of them would be happy for you to drop their sites into this directory. I'm also privy to some big things that are to come. The value of this link is only going to grow exponentially. I recommend getting in now!

 

[Vicare]

Guerilla, understand this question comes from a stance of respect for you. I know you know SEO and release good products, which is why I'm confused by this project.

You say it's not even 25% done. What's the final plan. The $97 seems a lot less like an acceptance fee and a lot more like an initial investment.

I'd be curious to know what we're investing in other than a strict web directory. Where is this thing going in your mind?

 

[BlueSteele]

Wasn't aware you were going to post here Anand. In fact, I hadn't even considered WF as an audience for this, but it makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.

To give a few of your local/client type guys an idea of the lengths this guy has gone to make this local friendly...him and I have spent hours looking at things like: authorship markup, hreview markup, location markup, embedding maps, citation format, category choices, business description length. The list goes on and on.

He has built a very intelligent foundation and I look forward to seeing what's to come.

 

[Jakey]

Signed up.

 

[(O_o)]

For $97, i get accepted in 1 directory?

I 2nd what Kaedus said,

What Guerilla has built here is very nice even in its infancy.

If you think about the current state that directories are in, most of them suck and/or broken. They all were built years and years ago, look ugly, and they were abandoned years ago and on auto pilot while providing no current support,updates,features.

This is something fresh for the SERPs and will continue to grow in authority as time goes on.

 

[chillit]

hi guerilla. i have a question about the directory name. Why do you have the word SEO in it?

It's not a criticism it's just that I tend to work on real world business sites and lately most of the business owners run a mile from anything with the word SEO in it. Lately I find SEO is becoming a "bad" word amongst business owners due to erratic results etc

would be interested to know why you picked that name as i was thinking that something with a more generic name might have wider appeal

by the way the site looks very nice and I will most likely try to sign up some sites. hope i will be accepted.

 

[jimmyn]

Have used this for one site so far, and i think to call it a directory submission in the traditional Wickedfire buy and sell forum sense, is selling it a bit short.

The price is high, but that might be good as it will help maintain quality. The $179 price will price me out of submitting more sites, but if you can afford these premium services it's worth going for.

 

[zhenjie]

Interesting concept (and I am interested) but the name of the directory does seem to limit its potential/credibility a bit. Looks well executed still.