In the eyes of serious directory owners, are there niches that are viewed as "ghetto"?

Of course, a quality niche directory with quality (not spammy) gambling sites listed would
be a good market financially, but how about what I guess you'd call it "lower class" sites?
What would constitute a "bad" directory?

I am not sure "ghetto" directory can be confined to a niche, the directories I consider "ghetto" directories are the one that accept ANY listing as long as the cash is paid, they are not selective of what site they list and what site they reject. I was guilty of this in my early days as a directory owner for example, I approve a one page poorly designed site because the inclusion fee of £30 per year was paid.

Recently, I rejected poorly created site that paid me £90 for listing.

Also, you can end up with a "ghetto" directory if you do not stricly enforce listing at the correct category, for example, "Internet" categories tends to have higher PR thank say "Web Hosting" which is usually a sub category of Internet, some web hosting companies will submit to Internet category instead of web hosting, if you move their site to the appropriate category, some ask you to leave it there or they will ask for a refund, I tends to tell them that its either in the correct category or you can have your refund.

Another way to turn a director to a "ghetto" is not enforcing listing title correctly, some webmster stuff it full of keywords rather than a proper sensible title.. the "ghetto" type directories leave it like that, the quality directories do not allow spammy titles.

I could go on and on and on

Thanks Temi. So a bad directory site is a bad directory site, no matter what it's niche is...

Originally Posted by espmartin

Thanks Temi. So a bad directory site is a bad directory site, no matter what it's niche is...

You put it very succinctly

Originally Posted by espmartin

In the eyes of serious directory owners, are there niches that are viewed as "ghetto"?

Of course, a quality niche directory with quality (not spammy) gambling sites listed would
be a good market financially, but how about what I guess you'd call it "lower class" sites?
What would constitute a "bad" directory?

"Ghetto", I would say there are directories in very popular fields (eg.. general directories) that may be more "ghetto-like" than directories in the gambling field.

It's like, when you visit a web directory you can immediately valuate how much work/efforts that went into the directory, you can rate a directoriy very quick on some common factors. You can clearly see which directory is the best both for the browser, and for the submitter.

I wouldn't say it's a "bad directory", do you know why? In my eyes, the bad directories are the ones that are launched today, and finished tomorrow. The directory business itself, is very crowded at this stage, lots of web directories (both free and paid).

I think it is funny to see that a majority of free directories often list "sh*t sites", on top level categories, that is a bad directory, the market should never judge a directory, it is the way it is being managed.

Meti