Best of the Web (botw)

Old site relaunched as a directory

[Dr Greenthumb]

Anyone submit here yet? Seems to be pretty empty at the moment but the site looks like it might be getting some traffic. If anyone has submitted I would love to hear your thoughts/results.

[edited by: Dr_Greenthumb at 5:03 pm (utc) on April 30, 2003]

[Napoleon]

Traffic? I doubt it very much... especially after the first visit. It's almost completely empty.

They also want $29 per year for a link from a PR3 or PR2 page.

Unless they are about to spend mega-bucks on offline advertising, I don't think so.

[martinibuster]

Clicked their about page and it's completely blank. How'd they get a PR 8?

There is no way to submit a free non-commercial site. Almost seems like a Pay-for-PR scheme. How long until Googlebar turns grey?

[cornwall]

Must be the worst directory that I have seen for a long time.

Anyone paying $30 for submission would need their head examined :(

[EliteWeb]

For those looking for a link this may be worth it for you. Its advertising dollars as I see it. I haven't done it yet but hey, I just setup a directory for real estate sites, has no PR, would you rather submit to a site for the few bucks with ranking and know you may get something out of it or would you rather submit to a site that has no PR and may never get off the ground but do it for free?

Its all how you weigh it I guess. I do think botw should have free listing for nonprofit sites though :D

[rfgdxm1]

>There is no way to submit a free non-commercial site. Almost seems like a Pay-for-PR scheme. How long until Googlebar turns grey?

Never. As someone already pointed out, who wants to pay $29 a year for a PR2 or PR3 link? Seriously, if you think that links from PR2 and PR3 pages are worth $29 a year, start looking around for teenagers with sites that have pages with that PR. Not only can such kids be found in abundance who will sell you links at that price, they'll happily use whatever keyword laden anchor text that you want. The supply of PR2 and PR3 pages on the web is so high that if you pay $29 a year for a link that has no click through value, you are paying too much.

[EliteWeb]

I see some nice wieghed and ranked pages. Anyone submit to lower category where the PR is high and see if they got listed there? :D

[heini]

Can't find any page in Google's index. ATW has 2.
If they are back for real they have a long way to go.