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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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Posted on Friday, 28th August 2009 by admin

Free Directories are difficult to monetize and they get 100s of submissions per day. Editors are quick to reject submissions and you have to keep that in mind while submitting to free directories.

Approval depends on a lot of factors, some of them are below:
– Selection of title (are you using too many commas in title? Are you using repeated keywords?)
– Description (is it a description written in third person narrative or it’s a string of keywords or it’s a sales pitch)
– Category (typically loans / insurance categories see a lower level of approvals)
– Email used (if you use gmail or yahoo accounts for submission you can expect slightly lower approval rates)
– Adsense / affiliate links on site (if you have a lot of pop up ads or adsense units, quality directories won’t accept your submission)
– Your website’s PR (unfortunately some directory owners think PR2+ websites are quality websites and they only approve those)

Hopefully if you keep the above mentioned factors in mind, your approval rate can increase.

Tags: Directory Approval, Directory Rejection, Effective Directory Submission
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Posted on Wednesday, 12th August 2009 by admin

Saying that digitalpoint is not the place it used to be and mods are not active or use an iron fist has become popular among internet marketers, seos and webmasters who got an infraction or two or got banned from the forum. I agree that the mods could be making a few human errors but by and large I am very happy with the forums and how quickly mods respond.

What triggered this post was an infraction for a recent post I made in an incorrect category. I agree I made a mistake and was promptly ‘reminded’ about it by the infraction. I made the change in my post and requested mod to move the thread and it was promptly moved. I was totally impressed.

Mods are quite active because I see members banned immediately when they send spam PMs. Some parts of the forums look overlooked but otherwise the forum is healthy and has many old and new members participating everyday.

Tags: digital point, digitalpoint, webmaster forum
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Posted on Tuesday, 11th August 2009 by admin

We have all seen clever ways comment spammers use to get through and I found a new one today. No this isn’t just a copy of an existing comment or how they liked my blog and will immediately subscribe to the RSS feed. Here is the clever comment:

Hello, i guess this is as good of a place as any to post and let you know. I went to subscribe to your RSS feed, and when i clicked it i got an error that said “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING” followed by other gibberish that scrolled off the screen. I had to force the page to stop loading because it locked up my browser. Cheers.

Genius, isn’t it? Most bloggers will be forced to approve and respond to it. Thanks to the comment spammer from software.best-antivirus.org who was using hotpepper113@ymail.com email id, I can tell others about this generic spam comment.

Tags: clever spammers, comment spam
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Posted on Monday, 10th August 2009 by admin

I added 400 more blogs (manually checked) to our dofollow blogs search and total indexed pages goes to approximately 108,000.

Many of these (more than 200) are keywordluv blogs just like this one. What are you waiting for? checkout the updated search engine and find all the dofollow blogs you want.

Download Free FastBlogFinder.

Tags: dofollow blogs, dofollow search engine
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Posted on Tuesday, 4th August 2009 by admin

Many premium directory owners believe that directory script owners should not give away free version of the script. Script owners provide free scripts hoping that directory owners will get a chance to experience a subset of feature with the free script and they will be inclined to buy the paid version. The approach is very similar to shareware approach but without any expiry date for the script.

The free versions however are being used by many fly-by-night free directories because the script doesn’t cost anything, hosting is cheap and many hosts allow unlimited sites in their packages. Someone can make 100s of directories with free scripts by just buying domains in bulk (and that’s exactly some people have been doing). Maintaining 100s of directories is of course very difficult and hence automated approvals are the only method to keep these directories active. All these activities are giving a bad name to directory industry and premium directory owners suffer most because of this.

I personally think free versions are good specially for free general directories when new webmasters are just using their new directory to get a feel of the industry and work required to promote a directory. Some people always manage to abuse anything that’s good and that’s exactly what is happening with these free directory scripts. But these directories will die a natural death and people will be discouraged to make more directories if submitters decide not to use these type of directories.

What do you think about free versions of directory scripts?

Tags: directory industry, free directories, Scripts
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Posted on Sunday, 2nd August 2009 by admin

Directory Submission has been a legitimate SEO method for many years, one of the most important requirement for using this method is to have a list of directories. Many free directory lists are made once and never updated.

Free Directory List

DirectoryRoll is updated almost everyday and new directories added to the list on new directories page. You can find list of directories on unique IP addresses by sorting the list and can also see PR, and backlink details for each directory. Directory owners can submit their directories by a simple forum announcement and bad directories can also be reported via email.

Track Submissions

Many webmasters submit their site to 100s of directories and face duplicate submission problem when submitting their site to directories after some time. This results into wasted time and money for website owner. With DirectoryRoll you can also track all the directories where you have already submitted your website.

Social Bookmarking List

Webmasters can also find nofollow and dofollow social bookmarking sites to promote their sites.

Tags: Directory List, directoryroll.com, social bookmarking list, track directory submissions
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