from: Ricardo on January 24, 2009, 11:13:49 PM
Hi,
Getting to the top of search rankings is all about 'votes' thats how all search engines work.
A 'vote' is counted as a link, so the more backlinks you get the more popular the site becomes as well as visitors. I know the industry well as its a prime part of what I do to compliment my 'other ' work ;-)
It's a little bit more complicated than that

, backlinking is only one part of the formula, which speaks volumes of the "I know the industry well" remark.
As someone who has owned and ran a directory for 7 years, In all that time I can only think of one national one that has come along and stayed the distance and that is AW and the reason is because strictly speaking its not a escort directory but a mish mash of webcam, phonesex, porn pics and escorting, with more clones out their than dolly
You remind me of another west midlands chappie of about 4 years ago, suddenly appearing on the scene claiming this and that, all I say is that his directory site lasted 10 months.
Just this last month or two we have had urbanescorts, dontbeshy, soulmateescorts and escortslocal directories come online, If you want to start another directory then I wish you luck but its no picnic, In my experience you'll find it extremely hard to get the independent ladies to pay any cash to advertise unless you are one of the better known sites with traffic which takes a long time to build up and establish yourself, and then only a few quid a month from each girl, Agencies/parlours are a better advertising target but this means you have to sell your soul and accept payments from unknown origins ( Organised crime syndicates.) got burnt myself end of last year with a high profile London agency that got busted.
With payments, because its an adult site most third party payment processors won't touch you and those that will want to take a higher % of the transaction, leaving you to either take a hit or accept payments into your bank account, which again carries risk.
What type of directory: Regional, national, fetish, BBW.
Regional, probably wont be able to break, LBB or SEP, regional limits your scope though, National directories good luck cracking that lol, fetish side well Fetishlink backed by punterlink has that covered and prettybig has BBW market covered, AW has the seedy side covered, probably not the best time to start thinking of starting a directory from scratch in the current economic market, have you ever emailed the various directories around if they are looking for partners or even to purchase an already established one with traffic and pedigree.