As a part of our promotional efforts we just launched a little video which will be promoted on various media sites. Under the title “The One in a Million”, Zyas describes a few top features we have and we try to show why you should consider our web directory in your promotional campaigns. Enjoy it!

One of the richest men in the world has finally retired. The time has come for Bill Gates to leave his Microsoft office and his daily job. All these years, his creativity and discipline made from Microsoft one of the most respected business on the planet. Here is an excellent, funny video on his last day of work.

A few days ago we have launched the Top 50 Traffic Directories List. I came up with this idea when I realized that there is no list to sort the directories by their actual traffic. Obviously Alexa pretend to rank the websites by their traffic but who trust their system? So what it might be better than an actual traffic screenshot from every interested directory owner?

For long time webmasters used to hide their traffic or very often to lie about it. This is why everyone pretends to have a great website but when you actually see their traffic…hmm…there is only a tiny fraction from what they use to say. It takes quite a bit of courage to show your traffic to everyone else…why? Because first of all this might clarify many things about the site you run. Many times webmasters promote their directories as “high quality” websites but if you would have seen what exactly they offer you would actually be surprised to find out that the things are quite a bit different.

I have a strange feeling that most of the so called “quality directories” offer so little in terms of traffic that it may be worthless to have your link submited.

My advice to every person looking to submit their websites to paid directories is to do a brief analyze of the directory in cause. This way you won’t get tricked by a nice custom template or by a flashy banner you might see on some other website. First of all…if you are a PR chaser (not recommended) you might see a lot of promotions for high PR directories. Please do not associate the high PR with high quality as most of the times the things are pretty different. You might pay quite a lot of money to a PR5 directory just to find your website on the third page of its category with PR0 on it and then just ask yourself…is it worthwile to pay so much for nothing? In most of the cases you won’t receive either PR or traffic from that directory but instead you’ll only get a normal backlink which you can get at half price or even for free from somewhere else.

On the other hand…submitting to a directory that has a lot of visitors may increase the chances to get some clicks back which it will be an extra bonus for your submission.

Top Traffic Directories List want to establish as an useful resource for those who are interested in submiting in directories that deliver. The most important thing is that the owners in cause were so kind and open minded so they provided us with a copy of their traffic details. Just thinking there are people willing to share with you their stats it’s a good feeling and it should be a huge plus when deciding to do business with someone you never did before. These people inspire trust and I would highly recommend to consider their directories when submitting your website. Don’t just get tricked by people saying “my directory is high PR” or “my directory is high quality”…always ask them to prove it.

As you may notice…there are not so many submissions so far…maybe the people still have something to hide, maybe they will need to drop the old ideas and to understand that being open to your potential customer it will only benefit in long term to your business.

I really hope this list will become more popular in the future and will atract both directories and submiters.

  Here are some excellent news…Zyas Video Web Directory has been picked Website of the Month by the editorial staff at LoboLinks.com! This means a lot for us and it proves that people appreciate the hard work and the creativity of this project. Our promise is to carry on the good work and to keep improving!

Quick post just to let everyone know that we have installed a wonderful plugin which allows people to add audio and video comments! How does it work? Under the usual comment box you’ll find a link called “Open flash comment recorder”…click on it and then choose between audio and video comments. Record and save it. Once you finished, add some text into the usual comments box and click on “Submit Comment”. This is it! Your voice or image will make you famous on Zyas Directory Blog!