Category: Directories
Hey Dentists: You’re On Avvo
From lawyers to doctors and now … dentists. Avvo has announced that it’s building out a dentists’ directory in the U.S. to complement its existing lawyer and doctor directories. But it sounds like this is still a work in progress. Avvo says dentists from all over the country are available to take part in the [...]
WordPress, Technorati and … Where’d All The Blog Directories Go?
Where’d all the good blog directories go? I came to wonder about that via a somewhat winding path, so follow along with me if you would, please. A couple nights ago, I was installing a new self-hosted WordPress blog. One of the many settings you’re asked to configure involves search engine (and web) spiders and [...]
Very Interesting: Avvo Shifts Focus to Q&A
Not two hours ago, I was on the phone doing an SEO consultation call with a doctor to whom I suggested checking out Avvo as a good industry-based place to be listed/seen. Avvo has long been considered a trusted industry directory site for lawyers and it recently expanded to include doctors, too. Now, it’s changing [...]
GroupThink: Is It Too Late to Save DMOZ?
GroupThink is where I turn the blog post over to you. DMOZ, AKA the Open Directory Project, has long been thought to be dead by most of the SEO community. “Submit and forget about it” is the common advice we’ve been giving out for a couple years now; obsessing over getting that trusted directory link [...]
8 Directory Submission Red Flags
I’ve been living in directory submission land lately, looking for quality directories where I can submit my wife’s and my four local blogs, which are new and in need of some basic links. It’s been a while since I’ve gone out on the hunt for links from quality directories, and the experience these past few [...]
Friday Night Link-o-rama
“We all want to be big, big stars … but we got different reasons for that” Let’s start with a couple from one of my favorite topics: Local Search. First, Greg Sterling has an interesting write-up about an interesting search tool called “Palore” that can add a lot of valuable information to local search business [...]
MSN Finally Announces Closure of bCentral Directory
It was more than four months ago that I reported about what looked like the closure of the bCentral Small Business Directory. Today, MSN sent out an email to directory participants detailing what we suspected all along: It’s being retired. But, the language in their bCentral transition FAQ is more than a bit confusing. Effective [...]
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