Check Directory Submissions for a second step…
April 25th, 2007 by Sarah KingI’ve just taken a novel step and am trying out two directory submission services. They’ve both taken a while to get started and yesterday I received a flood of submission notifications. Yay!
Buried within them though were some requiring a second step – click this link to confirm your submission. Read the rest of this entry »
A novel way to block spammers
June 29th, 2006 by Sarah KingI was doing a reorganisation of RealState’s Ontario category and wanted to manually check one of the sites and found I was “forbidden”
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
While the rest of us are using Akismet, content filters and the like this site’s webmaster had taken a bolder approach to knocking dead the spammers… Read the rest of this entry »
DMOZ Scavenger Hunt
December 7th, 2005 by Sarah KingThere are plenty who are quick to insult DMOZ and the people who work to make it work. I won’t go into that here, it will acheive nothing.
However, over at DigitalPoint a member (wrmineo) started a DMOZ Scavenger Hunt to find categories that had not been edited in years. Read the rest of this entry »
Redirects have no place in a Directory
September 21st, 2005 by Sarah KingRedirects are where a link to a site looks like http://www.mysite.com/go/143/ or http://www.mysite.com/goto.php?site=143
These are great for the directory owner because they can track the popularity of a link and capture other statistics. They are, however, almost worthless for the site owner. Read the rest of this entry »
Automated Directory Submissions
September 21st, 2005 by Sarah KingEvery day there are new directories being created and keeping up with them can be quite a trial. If you have a series of sites that you submit then adding them manually can be a bit of a struggle.
Solution: have a generic descriptor file for sites to identify the main sections of the site that might be submitted to a directory. Read the rest of this entry »
Directory listings: You can ask, but you may not get…
September 16th, 2005 by Sarah KingNegotiations, tradeoffs, compromises, all the language of our worlds. I’ve changed the rules subtly on my property investment directory as I’ve found that in Florida, everyone wants Florida in their link title. That’s good SEO, you might even find me recommending it (or not). But as a directory owner you may also find me rejecting your request. Read the rest of this entry »
Link Manager for Link Exchangers
April 10th, 2005 by Sarah KingThe Problem
I visit a site looking for a link exchange and I look at the other links they have and wonder if I can exchange links with those ones too. I visit them and then find that they’re already listed. But I have 127 categories so I have to use the internal search tool and it adds significantly to the time spent building up my links. Read the rest of this entry »
