Directory Blogger

Posted on Friday, 25th June 2010 by admin

Directory owners specially the ones still making from their directories are getting more and more difficult to find. Where do these guys hangout? I am sure Directories Section on DigitalPoint or Webmaster-Talk are definitely not the right place. Some of my readers are directory owners, so this question is for you. Which one is your favorite webmaster forum where you can still get good advice and help for running a directory?

Tags: directory owners, Forum, webmaster forums
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Posted on Thursday, 15th April 2010 by admin

Some time ago I did a post that contemplated whether digitalpoint mods are sleeping? What about the other popular forums? v7n seems to be on a decline. Sitepoint had some really good tutorials for webmaster earlier but I guess Flippa is taking too much of their time now.

Got their email saying ‘they are cleaning up‘ their stickys, that doesn’t help the spam they get on the forum. What I fail to understand is why the spammers even bother to post there, the board doesn’t even give dofollow links in signature (though most dofollow forum lists incorrect has SitePoint).

I have tried many forums apart from DigitalPoing and I am still looking for a good one where real people have real discussions.

Tags: sitepoint, webmaster forums
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Posted on Thursday, 8th April 2010 by admin

Just got an email from Aviva Directory. They have a new discount coupon for the month of April.

You can get a whopping 40% discount by using this coupon.

Coupon Code: avivaspring

The offer expires on 30th of April.

Don’t forget to use other directory coupons I had posted earlier.

What’s your opinion about such discount coupons?

Tags: aviva directory, directory discount, discount coupons
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th April 2010 by admin

I am very happy to review this Quality Web Directory today called www.RealDir.com. It’s built using eSyndicat and I must see that the owner has put efforts in making a custom logo and design. I like the listingstatus mod on the directory, this will definitely help submitters check ‘quickly’ if their submission was approved.

What I had not noticed earlier and only noticed when I started writing the review is that the directory also allows free article submissions. It’s not common for eSyndicat directories to offer a ‘working’ article directory.

eSyndicat script owners and directory owners probably missed the memo when Matt Cutts wrote about how Google has ‘changed’ the interpretation of ‘nofollow’ attribute. The submit link and other internal pages still have nofollow attribute on them.

The directory 1318 listings (as of today) in business section but only 137 in financial services and 287 in Arts category, I guess they should go out of their way to fill these categories to make the directory more useful.

Overall, I would recommend website owners to submit their sites to this free web directory.

Tags: article directory, free web directory, realdir.com
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Posted on Friday, 26th March 2010 by admin

I pay around $6.99 per month for my hosting that allows me multiple hosts and 25 databases. My web hosting provider also gives me a cheaper hosting $3.99 per month if I only have one host. But I found an amazing deal for $9.95/year hosting for an ordinary account with a free domain name. I need to check out if this works well for directories, SiteGround says it’s suitable for blogs and forums. Forums are probably the nastiest beasts so I am sure directories will do just as well.

Hosting for less than $10/year is definitely a dream come true for any internet marketer who plans to make lots of websites.

Disclaimer: This blog gets monetary benefits by making these posts.

Tags: $10/year, cheap, hosting, siteground
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Posted on Sunday, 14th March 2010 by admin

How long have you been running your directory on the same host? Is it time to change your host and move to a reseller hosting? I submit my sites to a lot of directories and very often I find the ‘account suspended’ notices on many directories. I believe these guys should go for a better hosting provider instead. Move to a bigger package like reseller hosting that allows you to host as many sites as you want while allowing you to make some money on the way.

I liked HostNexus’s offer and have been thinking of moving my sites there. They are one of the very few hosting providers who provide Coldfusion Hosting at such cheap prices. Another thing that I want to try out is Ruby on Rails hosting.

What was the last time you thought of changing your hosting company? Change it now because if your hosting is not fast your SEO score may suffer (yes, google is supposed to consider site’s speed as one of the ranking factors soon).

Tags: change hosting, coldfusion hosting, reseller hosting
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Posted on Tuesday, 9th March 2010 by admin

I was sending someone a message about factors that may affect approval rate for a directory submission campaign. I thought I will copy the list here and share with the readers. (this was made rather quickly so many not be comprehensive, feel free to add your points).

1. Ads on the site
2. Site’s design
3. Site’s PR (unfortunately)
4. Site’s niche (weight loss, loans, insurance site get least approval – 10-20%)
5. Affiliate links – amazon / ebay affiliates are not liked.
6. Top level domain or subdomain
7. Keywords in title (any repetition, too many words etc. might get less approval rate).
8. Description – short descriptions get less approval rate, descriptions with phone numbers, URL inside descriptions are also not liked by many.
9. PR of the directory (higher PR directories have lots of submissions everyday and can take many months to approve, they tend to have higher rejection rates), newer directories approve faster.

10. Category of the site. Some sites have a ‘clear cut’ category and there is no confusion. Shopping -> Clothing type of categories are probably the easiest, others are quite ‘vague’. Locksmiths, janitors etc. can go in shopping -> home & garden -> trade services or business -> services the directory editors might disagree with submitter’s choice.

11. Directory List – if a directory list doesn’t remove directories that are ‘obviously not approving links’, the approval rate can go down.

Tags: Directory Approval, directory submission
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Posted on Friday, 26th February 2010 by admin

Do you need article directories? DirectoryRoll has recently launched an article directory list with more than 170 PR1 to PR6 sites. (And yes, it includes EzineArticles).

All directories give dofollow links in resource box and most allow anchor text within resource box.

Want to add your article directory to the list? Post your comment here !

Tags: Article, article directory list
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Posted on Tuesday, 10th November 2009 by admin

I rarely review a directory again, I had reviewed iBizDir earlier and decided to take a look at it again yesterday. As a business directory iBizDir is getting better and better. A completely different approach to directory homepage (having regularly updated content in focus rather than list of directory categories).

I like the simple Google maps integration they have done on detail pages (not to mention the SEO friendly URLs of detail pages). As I said earlier, I like custom scripts and this one impresses me with great bread-crumbs on internal pages.

Also checkout the AJAX driven category selection mechanism, I wish PHPLD AJAX mod was as slick as this one. You should not that it’s a business directory and concentrates on business address and contact details rather than PR, Traffic etc. that usual webmaster centric web directories are prone to think about.

A lot of new categories on the business guide section of the directory. Though I miss and RSS feed on this section. Some of their articles are really good but there is no way for me to subscribe to alerts. (Maybe there is, but I couldn’t find it).

The review fee hasn’t changed on the directory, I do hope they will publish some coupons for DirectoryBlogger’s readers.

Conclusion:

iBizDir remains a solid business directory that I recommend business owners to submit their site to. For the PR hungry crowd, it’s  PR4 directory.

Tags: Business Directory, iBizDir, review
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by admin

Do you own a directory? Do you have a target keyword in mind that you would like to rank for? What about the long tail keywords? Do any of your category pages rank for their titles? (After removing your directory URL).

Why am I asking this? My friend from TopClickMedia, a search engine optimisation company tells me that SEO friendly directory doesn’t only mean the directory has SEO friendly URL, it should also strive to rank for keywords related to it’s category listings to have a significant impact on listed URLs rank.

I got my directories to rank for instant approval directory, fast approval directory etc. but I would like to be on first page for people like Dmegs or VMOptions. What kind of link building activities do you do for your directory?

Tags: directory seo, promoting directories
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