I was chatting with a friend the other day who runs a web site that lists sites in a similar way to Bidilicious but without the custom developed BR to rank the sites.

He mentioned that he was adding sites to his lists manually because after the initial opening of his site he noticed that only the serious web masters would submit whilst the less serious would be afraid of being shown in a less than perfect light.

This got me to thinking about whether I should do the same with Bidilicious because our system could also show up a web master who is claiming to be promoting his / her site but in reality is doing nothing.

I have therefore instructed our team to start going through the search engines and picking out bidding directories which have yet to be included in our list. These will be added with the following default description over the coming days and weeks:

“This bidding directory has been added by a member of the Bidilicious team. If you are the owner of this web site and would like to add a more appropriate description please use the Contact Us page. Please ensure you send a description that follows our guidelines displayed on the Add Directory page.”

As the description states, if you are the owner of one of the web sites which we have added please feel free to get in touch with us with a more detailed description of your site. We will gladly change it for you so long as it meets our guidelines.

Webmasters have yet to pick up on how beneficial bidding directories can be in their link building campaigns especially those webmasters who are working on a shoestring budget.

As of todays date we have a total of 39 directories in the Bidilicious list. Of these 1 charges is GBP, 1 charges in Euros and the remaining 37 charge in USD. If we were to submit a single web site to each of the bidding directories on the list it would give us the following costs:

£2.00 ($3.93)
€2.00 ($2.93)
$257.84

Using Oanda currency exchange this would give us a grand total of $264.70 to generate 39+ virtually instant backlinks to your web site. Also bearing in mind that 28 of the 39 bidding directories also allow between 3 and 10 deeplinks with your submission.

Now lets assume that you play things smart and follow Alive’s tip and add an extra ten cents to each bid to ensure you stay slightly ahead of all the others who come along and submit at the minimum bid price. This would add an extra $3.90 to the above total.

Divide that up into the 39 and your average cost is just $6.89 per submission. That is not bad considering that up until Google’s recent crack down on buying and selling links, most link touts out there would be charging you more than that on a monthly basis!

Make sure you get the most out of bidding directories and remember to vary your link text and descriptions to ensure each directory is showing unique content for your detail page.