• Put RSS feeds on your directory pages with good content relevant to what your visitors came to you for in the first place.
• Put reviews of the sites you link with in their descriptions. People want to know about a link before they click it. They hate getting to a site to find it is nothing they expected. Give them your editorial opinion of the site. If you cannot in good conscience give a good review, what is the link doing on your site in the first place?
• Use article feeds from Content Desk to enhance your link pages.
• Use a link directory script that can import search results from DMOZ so your directory isn’t EMPTY when you start it. Here is a good one I use. Here is that script in action: NoLimitVOIP.com
• Use pay per click advertising on your directory for increased site revenue and REALLY relevant, targeted info your visitors can use. Yahoo is going to be a player in 2005, but Adsense is always a great program.
• Allow visitors to comment on your directory resources with a “review this site” feature. They get a link to their site for doing so and you get value-added content and new content added to your site by your visitors.