I had some free time yesterday and so I decided to look a hard look at myself and what I have done FOR myself. I realize that I really didn’t do much in life. No seriously, I didn’t accomplish much and I don’t have anything to show for. I have just this blog and a few web directories. The worse thing is that they suck big time. I don’t get much visitors at all. This blog gets approximately 30-40 hits per day and most goes to the DNS Host list which I have created. Sure it is a constant stream of visitors but hardly anything to be proud of. Although my web directory do get a decent number of hits (maybe about 150-200 hits per day) but again it is nothing to be shout about since most are just spammers.

When I first started my web directories, I thought that I will soon be rich as thousands of webmasters will flock to my web directory and start submitting their sites. And paying me good money for it. Be alas, it never happened. I was just too naive to think that it would be so simple. Looking back, I am not surprised. I didn’t really do much to improve my web directory. The listings in the web directories are all submitted by webmasters whom are usually all SEOers. The reason why they are submitting to my directory is just to improve their site’s visibility and Search Engine rankings. However, since most of these sites have also been submitted to other web directories, my web directory has became useless as a resource for visitors.

A web directory main purpose is to categorized sites into different categories for easy reference. However, if all the content could be found in other directories, then it is just a replica. And most of the sites which was submitted aren’t exactly high quality stuff. Most high quality sites won’t waste time, effort or money to get listed in web directories, especially a small web directory like mine. If the site is high quality and useful, then the owner of the web directory should have added the listing himself. Well, this I never did. Thus, it never attracted the kind of visitors which I wanted. Most visitors come to submit their sites to the directory. Very few goes and browse through the various categories in the directory.

Well, first of all I was extremely naive to believe it was easy money. Start a web directory, wait till people start submitting and then money will flow in fast. I mean sure others have done it but they did put in a hell lot of effort and time to build up their own web directories. It’s not EASY money. If you were to browse through the Digitalpoint forums, you can see just how hardworking some of these directory owners are.

Anyway, this is a lesson learned. Pretty valuable lesson.