Building a Directory Site

I started up a new site project with my wife, Vicky, a month ago, and it’s really coming together now.
It’s a directory called Four Points Guide of all things in our area, because there are lots of new people moving in who have no idea where to find doctors, gyms, restaurants, etc.
It’s a project that came out of our own frustrations after moving to Austin, TX a year and a half ago. We found that everybody we met had the same aggravations, and so a solution was born.
The model for Four Points Guide (Four Points is an area that includes a handful of large sub-divisions in west Austin) is to provide all businesses with free listings in the directory, and when we’ve got traffic coming in, we’ll work on upselling them to a selection of paid packages.
In the meantime, we’re using Google AdSense and affiliate programs that have brick and […]

See original post by Shawn Collins