Competing Against Reciprocal Directories

[toddo14]

I'm currently creating a niche directory and want it to be of the highest quality so there will be no reciprocals allowed.

My problem is that all of my competitors require reciprocals and most of them use redirects for the directory's outbound links (ex. www.example.com/link.cfm?page=www.example.org)

So not only do they have tons of incoming links but they also (at least I don't think) pass any of their PR on to other sites.

Any ideas on how to effectively compete with sites like this?

[edited by: martinibuster at 8:19 pm (utc) on May 8, 2007]

[simey]

So not only do they have tons of incoming links but they also (at least I don't think) pass any of their PR on to other sites.

Those directories are basically cheating unaware webmasters.

To effectively compete. I would:

-Build a quality directory (added features besides just a listing of links).
-Let submitters know the benefits of submitting to your directory (vs. the cheaters).
-Wait...(good directories take time to build prominence)