Seach and Go is probably not a really well know directory, I rarely (if ever) see someone mentioning it in webmasters forums. However, I must say that it is one of the directories that I believe will become really big in the years to come (I am not affiliated with the owners I don’t even know who they are). The reason for this is that they have done a few things that I believe will pay off in the future.
First of all the site is packed with unique content, what does that mean? Simply two things, food for the search engines that if they haven’t yet I am sure that they will start delivering traffic pretty soon and a magnet for links.
Another really nice touch is their GeoID tracker that is similar to the one from digitalpoint. The reason that this is going to help is quite obvious, Yahoo already reports about 50k links to that part of the site and I am sure that the links will continue growing with a steady pace.
Other than that the directory has a nice design, although not directory like but I guess this is done on purpose since it is more of a portal than a web directory. Nonetheless I believe they could improve the navigation within the directory part of the site.
Pricing: A regular listing costs $23.99 per year which is fair in my opinion but the Express costs $29 per month which means $348 per year (quite expensive for me).
Anyway, kudos to the people at Search and Go that have built and are still building a really nice directory.
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February 2nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Yes agreed, Search and Go is not overly well known, but every time I look something is new there, ever so subtle but new.
I was reading an article about them, apparently it is run by a couple of guys that utilize a lot of different talents for various parts of the build including some well known web development companies and some less known. It’s an ongoing build. What makes their directory stand out is they are picky, they don’t take just anyone, which equates to creating a good trustworthy directory. We have a monthly paid advertising in their for one of our sites with that we get to link to inner pages so its not too bad. I see what you mean it can get pricey but looking through their results they appear to get a fair bit of trust from Google. One thing I find infuriating is they still haven’t put the home page live yet, WTF they waiting for?