🤑 Making Bank

talking directories

Author

Shawna Newman
July 29, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Are you making directory sites? If not, you should be.

During my recent month of travel I feel like I was seeing directory site ideas everywhere.

EVERYWHERE.

Like right now I wish someone had a site (by city) that told me which restaurants are charging loads of excess fees. I recently went to one that had a 3.9% employee healthcare fee, a 3% paying by credit card fee (I never carry cash), and a mandatory 20% tip if you kept a tab open (the rate is fine, but also let me decide that). That’s a lot of non-sense fees to pay.

Also, that 3% credit card fee was BS cause they were using Toast, which is 2.49% + 15¢ if you buy hardware upfront or 3.09% + $0.15 for pay-as-you-go option.

Anyways…

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Since I was getting so many directory site ideas, I’m gearing up to make a buttload more directory sites.

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Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for over a year now (I think?) and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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