User:Adamjensely/Mddir

Mddir is a human edited general web directory that offers websites to list their businesses.

It was founded in 1996 by an early Internet pioneer Adam Jennet while working as a web developer. In early stage directory was open for local businesses for listing. In 1998 it was declared a global listing for the online users. The CMS of the directory is built in PHP script the open source web language. People allow to submit their website in free listing. Each listing gets separate page for their business. After approval website goes in the new website listing page where online people can rate the website as the quality of the those website. Viewers of the listing are allow to give start rating to the websites. The top rated websites receives top spot in the top rated websites.

The site was then sold to the Bigtech company, The owner of the Bigtech company was not Handling the directory the he should manage. In 2001 it was again sold to another company named Hiro Neek. Till then the directory is well maintained. It is having thousands of websites listed. It is one of the most active human edited directory in the world. The editors of the directory follows strict quality guidelines while reviewing each listing.

Directory has establish its credibility with the help of social platforms. It is active on facebook, twitter, reddit, Google plus etc social platforms. The users who get the paid listing on the mddir receives exposure on these social profiles. The website claims they have successfully reviewed more than 8500 website till date.

Paid inclusion and advertisement
The faster review required subscription fees. The pages are promoted with Google AdSense advertisements for better search results.