Bid for position directories seem to be the latest hot thing among directory owners. For those that haven’t heard of them they are directories where a site’s placement in the category pages depends on the amount of money that the site owner “bids”. The more they bid the higher their listing is placed. Of course [...]
Answer: SEO’s Greed
I currently had the pleasure of doing a mini interview with Mike Dammann the man behind the recent Directory Contest that also runs Frogengine. The questions as you will see where mostly about the contest. I hate introductions so let’s go directly to the questions and answers.
Hi Mike, let’s start by getting straight to the [...]
The directory contest is getting hot with a lot of participants. Currently (at least at the datacenter I am hitting) it seems that Romow is leading the race. It even outranked the directory contest official site :). Of course some major link building has been done to achieve this.
Personally I am just doing a couple [...]
The first directory contest (at least to my knowledge) has started. The official site of the contest can be found here. According to the site, the aim of the contest is to identify the directories that provide the most benefit in terms of SEO to the submitters. The rules are simple, directory owners should simply [...]
Since yesterday there seems to be a lot of PR movement (via Digitalpoint). Pagerank hasn’t really settled yet so the PRs we are seeing may not be final. However, I find it interesting that a lot of the major players in the directory scene are experiencing a drop of their PR. The biggest surprise is [...]
This is something that I have been thinking for quite some time. Up until now users at my directory could choose the order that the links were displayed (by date, by popularity, alphabetical, descending ascending). Of course that meant that search bots could do the same. So the result would be that search engines would [...]
The owner of Aviva Directory recently posted an interesting list of directories classified according to their Page Strength as calculated with SEOmoz’s page strength tool. I have to admit that the tool is pretty cool and the results interesting. However, the real question is: Is this list useful? or as a more general question Is [...]
