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    I am at an impasse for ideas on a niche bid directory.
    Don't really want a niche that everyone else has done many times (directory of directories, nothing but blogs and/or forums, etc).

    Any ideas for a good niche that has lots of webmasters in that niche?
    Like travel?

    Thank you.

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    Video Sites: Sites that host or review videos. This seems to be gaining popularity in the webmaster arena.

    File Hosting Sites: Perhaps make it a voting site where users can rate speed, ease of use, etc.

    Have you ever thought about doing smaller directories targeted at say specific geographic areas? Like an <your town>, Iowa directory. List local businesses with websites for free, build a user base then go around town selling premium listings and listings to businesses without websites. You can even go full monty and do business reviews, get free stuff, all kinds of neats things with a blog type setup. Then you can possibly expand building mini sites on subdomains for those businesses without websites.

    I've been thinking of going the local route myself. I already own mytownnameny.com..

    Just some idea off the top of my head.
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    Let me count on one hand our little town.
    Post Office, bank (branch of main bank in another city), tavern, school district, c-store (huge chain), and of course, a barber.

    So much for that bright idea, had it once, but it was a bitch and a waste of advertising dollars locally.

    Will stay away from file hosting sites (they may be eating lawsuits soon).

    Video sites?
    Will have to spend some time researching that one.

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    I live in a very small town too. We got a supermarket, 2 dinners, a bank, and cafe. That's about it. I'm going to expand it a bit for the entire township which covers 7-8 hamlets. For instance, I live in the town of Eldred but it's part of the town of Highland each little hamlet has it's own post office too. The naming structure is kind of confusing here.

    Anywho it's just a thought I'm going to give it a go for a year or so and see what happens.
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    File hosting ranking directory site will be a good idea.

    Why do you think they are going to have lawsuits?
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    Because RIAA won a lawsuit claiming that a file download site, could possibly allow illegal downloads.
    With that win, they will go after file and image hosting sites with a vengeance soon.

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    Well, after looking at the landscape of directories, I have decided NOT to build up a bid link directory.

    Instead a regular directory.
    Now in the process of hunting down a good script.
    Then from there go for a template of my own.

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    I think free stuff directory will be more popular as every body need free stuff

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    i think danny's suggestion of a video directory is a good one. Basically let people link to a video (say on you tube) about disneyland and provide your own commentary about the video and site then link to the site within your description. A little work, but you should be able to harness some good submissions and $ from that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iowadawg View Post
    I am at an impasse for ideas on a niche bid directory.
    Don't really want a niche that everyone else has done many times (directory of directories, nothing but blogs and/or forums, etc).

    Any ideas for a good niche that has lots of webmasters in that niche?
    Like travel?

    Thank you.
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    Maybe one day.
    Been checking that gift niche.
    Pretty strong and quite a bit out there.

    Thanks.

    PS....directory is set, do not need any more ideas.

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