I wasn’t sure how a “Web 2.0 Directory” would qualify as a blog. But it turns out that the author has made his “Directory” a blog and not a directory at all.
The first thing I noticed was that the url for this site was a blogspot hosted site. I have nothing against blogs being on blogspot per say, but if you are going to have a site called “Web 2.0 Directory” I think it should be hosted at its own domain.
The design of the site is rather bland and boring. It has this massive header that tells us the site has been around since December of 2006 and is tracking all the new web sites out there. Ok that’s fine, but 33% of my screen for this header is not needed. The rest of the design is a standard 3 column layout with the content in the center. Nothing about this design says “Hi I am a directory”.
The posts are boring as all get out. In fact they don’t really do much of anything other than describe a website. Some of the descriptions are one sentence long which leads me to my next thought about this site.
The site screams it is a spam site. Or at the very least, set up to just generate money and not actually do anything for the reader. There are many little details that lead me to believe this. First the author had the max number of google ads on the site. In addition to those the author has a nice break down of categories and wouldn’t you believe that the Pay Per Post category has one of the most posted to categories?
In addition to that the author has at the end of every post a link to every single site that you can submit your URL to such as del.icio.us, digg and others. All in the hopes that people will link back to his site.
This site fails miserably at what it says it is. It is not a directory by any means. It isn’t even what one would call a “Web 2.0” site. I really think the author should say that the purpose of the site is just to make me money and that is it. I think a complete restructuring of the site is needed if he wants to keep using the “Web 2.0 Directory” as the name of his blog.