Irish Directories

[celticlimos]

new directory

here is a new irish directory i came across
it also has Article Submission

info-ireland.com
sorry about the url as i havent posted 10 yet

 

[Tom]

Here's my new web directory I put up recently, I don't think it's mentioned in this thread - Irelands(i) Internet Directory

 

[Coyote1]

Munster Business

I maintain munsterbusiness.ie which as the name implies lists
businesses in Munster.

We get a fair bit of traffic and are adding new listings all the time.
I find that once people decide to expand on to the web they tend to come back to those who helped them out in the past so I consider this site my Karma investment

 

[piush]

is it still under construction?

 

[Coyote1]

Not really

I change it around quite a bit and use it to test out stuff.

 

[piush]

thanks for the reply.
Do you think listing in directories help?

 

[Coyote1]

I think so.

Your page rank is not really going to increase but for someone who just wants to get on the net Its a good start.

I added a page for one of my neighbors and now if you
Google "plastering contractors limerick" he's number 3! from 11400
thats from a 1 page sub site in the directory! LOL

Directory entries are really only useful if they direct traffic to your site
from Google searches. Not a lot of people look through directory sites if looking for a service they are more likely to just do a google search directly.

Also if you have a new site then getting listed in sites that are searched regulary can speed up the google crawl.

If you have done your SEO work then natural searches in Google that find you site are a lot better than paid listings in directories that no one ever looks in, IMHO.


CCSL

 

[piush]

that is great.
i have a site which i made myself. and just want to see how to make it known and a review also.
thanks

 

[learnpipe]

learnpipe.ie

Hi there,

find instructors, learners, courses and courseware learnpipe.ie is a directory for training providers based in Ireland. It is designed to make it much easier to see what courses are available in Ireland (any course, yoga to .Net).

All the best, John

 

[Christophe@Tribal IM]

There is a market for offline businesses, looking forward.
Who will grab it?

Data Companies should...

 

[jmcc]

I've been looking at upgrading the HTML on WhoisIreland.com to PHP and was wondering if I should add the historical domain name hosting data on the Irish com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/eu domains. Would this be of any use to users or would a more generic "online since YYYY with n hosting changes" type line be better?

Regards...jmcc

 

[mneylon]

The historical stuff is useful in terms of SEO and "weight" ie. if the domain was always on parking nameservers then it wouldn't be as "valuable" as a domain that was on the LGCS nameservers

 

[jmcc]

The historical stuff is useful in terms of SEO and "weight" ie. if the domain was always on parking nameservers then it wouldn't be as "valuable" as a domain that was on the LGCS nameservers

I should have some rough figures on the .com domains later tonight. The hard part is distinguishing the holding pages from active content as hosters tend to have their own signature way of generating holding pages. Just on the .ie ccTLD, the level of PPC parking is extremely low for a ccTLD.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Whatswhat_Sian]

Whatswhat Business Directory

Hi

Well of course I have to mention Whatswhat.ie. We're an online business directory that has been going for just over 7 years in Ireland. We now have over 66,000 businesses listed and have a google page rank of 5 - and several of the inner directory pages have a PR3. Although it is free to list your business that only gives your company name, address and contact details. A Top Ten spot puts your company at the top of your category plus the top of any search results on Whatswhat.ie for any of your keywords - you can add 20 keywords. It gets you a direct link to your website (no redirects) plus a full description of your company, logo, products, services and special offers. All for only €200+vat.

Hope that explains us enough but if not please go to the directory to see more.

Regards

Sian

 

[jmcc]

The historical stuff is useful in terms of SEO and "weight" ie. if the domain was always on parking nameservers then it wouldn't be as "valuable" as a domain that was on the LGCS nameservers

The cross-TLD status of a domain may also be useful for SEO. It may also be possible to put a brand protection indicator on doms regged like that.

Regards...jmcc

 

[NuMero]

A Free Business Directory-Free Irish Business Directory
in case someone whats to list their business.

 

[jmcc]

Preliminary Irish .com stats:

D% is percentage as of domains in survey. W% is percentage of websites in survey.

| webtype | counted | D% | W% |
+---------+---------+-------+-------+
| A | 53558 | 51.30 | 63.15 | Active/Unclassified.
| H | 11811 | 11.31 | 13.93 | Holding pages.
| R | 10051 | 9.63 | 11.85 | Redirects.
| P | 3349 | 3.21 | 3.95 | PPC parking.
| F | 3078 | 2.95 | 3.63 | Forbidden/Not found.
| D | 2073 | 1.99 | 2.44 | In page redirect.
| B | 589 | 0.56 | 0.69 | Brand protection.
| N | 152 | 0.15 | 0.18 | Duplicate content network.
| U | 142 | 0.14 | 0.17 | Unavailable.
| G | 14 | 0.01 | 0.02 | Government sites.

Now the hard work of classifying about 53k pages starts. A lot of them will turn out to be holding pages of various types. Still though, it could be the basis for a good set of directory pages.

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

Is it worth setting up a few regional directories or concentrating on a single Irish directory? I have some unused domain names that could be the basis for decent regional web directories (One domain name is about twelve years old, another nine, and the others between three and five years old.)

I was thinking of writing the directory software though that might turn out to be a nightmare. Anyone care to recommend any decent PHP/MySQL web directory software?

Regards...jmcc

 

[mneylon]

Is it worth setting up a few regional directories or concentrating on a single Irish directory? I have some unused domain names that could be the basis for decent regional web directories (One domain name is about twelve years old, another nine, and the others between three and five years old.)

I was thinking of writing the directory software though that might turn out to be a nightmare. Anyone care to recommend any decent PHP/MySQL web directory software?

Regards...jmcc

There are a few that work quite well:

phpld
Indexu
eSyndicat

Prices vary as does functionality

 

[jmcc]

There are a few that work quite well:

phpld
Indexu
eSyndicat

Prices vary as does functionality

Thanks Michele,
I think that the functionality required will be fairly simple. Sometimes my own PHP code terrifies me. I'd hate to think of what it does to users.

Regards...jmcc