Category: Directories
Friday Night Link-o-rama
And she’s buying a stairway to linkheaven… Hot off the presses is a good post from Loren Baker within the last couple hours titled Link Building : Measuring Directory Value. He sums up another discussion on the topic and adds in a few additional ideas and resources. Lee Odden, one of my former interviewees, has [...]
Yahoo Removes the Last Hurdle to Paying for a Directory Listing
I’m in the middle of re-designing my wife’s real estate web site, which has sat dormant for too long now. I’m hardly a master designer, but we can do better than that 2004 version. She’s also trying a lot of new things to market her web site, like writing a real estate blog and trying [...]
The Impact of Dying Directories
Background: Microsoft recently closed its Small Business Directory (SBD) to new submissions, and the Open Directory (DMOZ) has essentially been offline since before Halloween. There’s no indication that the SBD will be back, and many are wondering if DMOZ will survive the current downtime. Current: For some reason, this is not getting much “big picture” [...]
MSN Small Biz Directory closed?
Is the Microsoft Small Business Directory closed? Seems to be the case. Here’s the Add Your Site page, which details the costs and benefits, and has a link at the bottom saying Sign Up & Get Your Small Business Listed Today! But when you click that link, you end up here: http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/services-transition.mspx And that page [...]
Yahoo to support NOODP tag
(Still catching up – only 126 more Bloglines articles to read and I’m done!) If you’ve been reading SBS long enough, you may recall my suggestion back in July that small business owners/webmasters take advantage of the “NOODP” tag in order to stop Google and MSN from using your web site’s listing data from DMOZ [...]
Ditch the ODP title
This is great news: One of potentials drawbacks of having directories such as DMOZ or Yahoo list your site is that search engines might take your directory listing information and use it in the SERPs instead of the actual [TITLE] element and meta “Description” on your page. As I describe on the Directories page, Google [...]
Updated Directories page
Thanks to a good Threadwatch discussion today about how Business.com is using (mis-using?) the “nofollow” tag, I’ve updated the Directories page here on SBS. The entire 2nd section, Why Submit to Directories is new and includes discussion of the “nofollow” usage by directories, and how it might impact a small business’s decision whether to pay [...]
Directory links – be careful
If you’ve read my Directories page, you know I’m counted in the links from trusted directories are still an important part of SEM camp. Dan Thies (of SEO Research Labs) adds some more tips on finding trusted directories — namely, by looking for any paid links the directory may be selling, and how those links [...]
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