Making a custom web directory
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I am wondering if it is beneficial to launch a social bookmarking website based on Semantic Scuttle [http://semanticscuttle.sourceforge.net/demo] in order to gain inbound links. For the sake of example, say my industry is ebooks. I would of course add links to all of my products to the site. In addition, I would want to add links to competitors products to the site to make the site actually useful and not look like spam. On the face of it, is this a good idea?
Secondly, I of course wouldn't want to be helping out competitors, so would any of these actions be advisable?
- add nofollow links to all links except those pointing to my site.
- ads or featured listings pointing to my links.
- I make it so only voted on links are dofollow. Thus, competitors could actually get links from my site. Naturally, I would vote on all my submissions.
The idea of the site would actually be to provide a meaningful service. Once it's done I would want to get people linking to it.
Any advice? Thanks!
Edit: I added scenario #3 which I think is probably the best option, if this is even a good idea. I would also make some static content to really make this a good resource!
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One more idea is if I write some code that says if a link on my site gains more than say 3 votes that it turns into a dofollow. Again, I plan on submitting links to competitors sites for any ebook I can find, so it sould actually be a helpful resource.
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Google is usually quick to identify methods of manufacturing links.
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