Start a Web Directory

Companies pay money (not always good money) to be listed in a web directory. If your web directory is good, comprehensive, and fills an “in-demand” niche, then you can ask for more money to be listed. The reason why companies would pay for such a service is that they are more specific than a search engine like Google. Although Google is very good at what it does, it still has to accommodate the interest of billions of different parties (like me, for example)...a directory that fills a good niche can eliminate 99.9% of the junk that your readers wouldn’t be interested in.