http://www.directoriesblog.info A blog about directories Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:29:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2007/04/14/bid-for-position-directories/ Answer: SEO's Greed http://www.directoriesblog.info/2007/03/24/quiz-of-the-day-what-is-the-most-important-advantage-of-ses-against-seos/ This could have been the advice of the day but looking at the time of my last post it is probably best to call the bimonthly advice. The advice is rather simple and applies to all kind of sites, simply watch your analytics. Directories, most of the time get traffic from long ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2007/03/06/one-small-advice/ 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 ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2007/01/13/interview-with-mike-dammann-about-the-directory-contest/ Now that I finished revamping the look of my blog it's about time I posted something new. BTW about half of the code of the theme was written by me so it's a bit of a mess and there may still be a few bugs but it still validates :). ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2006/12/07/link-building-for-a-directory-part-3/ 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 ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2006/11/24/directory-contest-update/ 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 ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2006/11/08/directory-contest/ Let me start by saying that I haven't been a webmaster for that long so I remember quite clearly how I started, putting up a blog on a free blog host. The first thing that I did was to try and find out how I can drive traffic to my ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2006/10/10/best-web-directories/ 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 ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2006/09/30/pr-update-29092006/ This is really sad in a way, Saturday night and I am blogging about directories, oh well! I have posted previously that in most cases we are missing the obvious. I believe that this is the case when most directory owners are promoting their directories in order to get paid submissions. ... http://www.directoriesblog.info/2006/09/16/in-search-of-clients/