In a course of two weeks, I recieved a few emails asking me how to make money from a general web directory. Some asked is it even possible to make money with a General Web Directory? I don’t know why I was being asked so many questions like that until I realized I was getting a few hits from 2Blog.in where he called me a Guru of Directories. I saw this post a while back but that was the one that came in my mind when I wondered about that. Therefore, I decided to write my thoughts about this issue as well as some of the other well known directory owners in the industry.

I believe that it is possible to make money with a general web directory, but those QBC Directories (yes I know the term is overrated) doesn’t stand a chance in making good money as they used to. I would like to start out with the quotes and then present my own view in details.

I asked Mikey of Zorg-Directory the question which is stated in the title.

Mikey Replied:

Yes. It requires a lot of time and effort though. Money can help a lot but is not totally necessary.

I didn’t just want to rely on source therefore I also asked Bruce of Authority Directory

Bruce Replied:

Yes I think general directories can make money, but the directory owner needs to be patient. The directory has to be properly promoted, maintained and allowed to mature. It is not a way to get rich quick.

I also asked Brian of Seo Web Directory

Brian replied:

You can but it’s harder than it used to be. I noticed a drop in submissions since Google reduced PR, seems like people are losing confidents in general web directories. As you know there is more benefits to directory submission than PR. I feel that the way forward is niche directories.

Ok people we know what is going on with Google. Directories used to sell alot of links because people were abusing the resource and was trying to manipulate PR. Which made directory owners greedy and buy links to increase their Pagerank, so they can make ten fold of their investments. Which kinda didn’t work as we can see. Alot of people think it was not good for directories, but I think it was actually better for the industry. Now we will not have any more crappy directories.

How can you not make a crappy directory and still make money. Well first of all…[This post is too long, read it and you will definately learn something]

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If you go to the home page and click on the logo there is a video there, and i watched it over and i recall watching this video before and i remember i saw it on Veoh.com. Someone must’ve spread that video, but it is a very nice trailer.

Happar is 4 days away from its release as you can see from the screen shot image directly taken from their website counter

I spent a good deal of time reading Happar’s Website before i wrote this review because there is so much to cover about this script, and i didn’t want my readers to miss anything.

Happar is a custom script that is extremely user friendly and targets starters. With their very easy to use admin panel it seems like that making an adsense site would be a matter of few clicks. Experts at Happar has already configured the script to be adsense ready (or should i say any other ads not just adsense, including but not limited to adbrite, bidvertiser etc). Along with the configuration of adsense they have also optimized the script for adsense and search engine. The one key thing that many new users struggle with. Ranking high in search engines and getting the search engine traffic. Happar claims to be doing that and it is proven through the beta testers and their testimonials, I haven’t got a chance to try it as it is not released so i cannot give my personal opinion on that. But i am eagerly waiting for it to be released.

Since all we can do is imagine, i would say think of wordpress, but more advanced and much more user friendly. All plugins installed. It comes with many different templates that users can go through and change it which is a good thing, though i dont think i like any of the ones i was sent in the screen shot (which i will post at the end of the post as a gallery). But you have to understand my design standards are very high because i am a designer myself and i can see the possibilities. The good part about is that the design is generating from css file that can be edited easily. So if you know a little about coding and using this script you can make a fortune.

Now what does Happar Include. They have a product called Monetization Engine (M.E) which is basically behind all the good stuff i discussed above. It is open to possibilities, and that is one of the features i am loving from the demos and videos i saw that this script is very flexible. M.E also contains a Search Portal that allows long-tailed keywords to turn into relevant content driven pages (that cotains automated content) and increase your chances of getting traffic. There is a testimonial about this feature on their blog by one of the beta tester who saw excellent results by that feature because he recieved tons of SE traffic.

Along with the automated content, M.E also lets their user add contents manually. Now using the White Hat methods in M.E you can add relevant music, videos, or any other external file to every keyword. The site grows as the users search, because when a user search a database it adds that keyword and get relevant content. (Now i would consider this to be Black Hat but on their website page it is listed under whitehat.) Now how easy it is to install. Well just take a ftp program and upload it. It is that simple.

Risks as one testimonial discussed that their first beta version actually got his sites delisted, but the second one got it back and ranked very high so i would presume that they have made serious changes in the new update.

This script incorporates Youtube Videos, Flickr images in one click, that is what i love about their admin panel ofcourse i watched it in a video, and you can watch it as well.

Admin Panel Video

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Ways of making money online:

Google Adsense – one of the most productive ways of making money online with blogs, but should not be your only source.

Yahoo Publisher – they have a low approval rate, and it takes alot of time to get approved. – Sign up with Yahoo.

Much more in the post

Recently, Shoemoney talked about some harsh facts about easy money online and whether it is so easy. I agree with him entirely and i wanted to elaborate on this subject with my thoughts therefore i tried something different. I have never done this before, I recorded myself in a video and talked so i want you guys to tell me what you think of it.

Here it is