Well…it’s been a while since the last BR update.

A few inactive directories removed, a few new ones added to the list. Will start promoting Bidilicious soon and hopefuly we can make it the best bidding directories list out there.

Just a quick heads up to let you know we have made a few small alterations to the Bidilicious Rank system to take into account some new criteria and improve performance.

This did result in a slight shift of the results with a few bidding directories increasing and a couple decreasing.

A bidding directory owner has also been in touch with us with a complaint about our ranking system which did highlight a small bug in the system. We are currently working on fixing the issue and will make an announcement when that has been completed.

In the meantime we would like to thank that person although they have requested to remain anonymous.

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.

I am pleased to announce that the new BR or Bidilicous Rank system in now live on the web site.

We have spent several weeks working on the system in an effort to rank bidding directories based on their individual qualities whilst keeping the system as automated as possible.

Lots of research was carried out to identify exactly what submitters expected from bidding directories as well as what the owners set as their standards. We feel we have encompassed as many aspects as possible into the BR system that should keep both parties happy.

Zorg Links currently tops the list with a BR of 5.3 with Sumpen propping up the pack with a BR of 0.2!

In addition to releasing the new BR system we have also updated the bidding directory list. We have replaced PageRank with Bidilicious Rank and this is now the default sorting parameter for the list. We have also added the Traffic Rank for each of the web sites as well as the Highest Bid and the Starting Bid.

An update was also posted to the detail pages to include all of the aforementioned data along with various other statistics gathered from the search engines. And last but not least we have added in some screen shots of the bidding directories and an Alexa Graph is displayed to show the traffic trend.

We still have tons a other ideas to implement, but if you have any comments or requests please feel free to get in touch.