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April 25, 2007

Check Directory Submissions for a second step…

Posted by Sarah King in Directory Management

I’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. More »

November 18, 2006

Vital advice about Paid Links

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

I’m taking an unusual step here and using someone elses article - but that’s because CReed has addressed the very issue I’ve been asked about lately - Paid Links.

I’ve sold a few links on various sites, but I haven’t solicited them and I doubt there’s been more than 5. It’s not the business I’m in. But people do sell links on blogs, directories and regular websites. It’s a discreet form of advertising and can be a good way to get a high profile inbound link to your site. Some offer only SEO benefits, others offer human traffic.

So, if you’ve exhausted all the free directories and don’t want to get into link exchanges then maybe paid links will be the next step. If so, then read on. More »

November 7, 2006

Directory Contest twists it up

Posted by Sarah King in Fun and SEO Games

Mike Dammann has launched his own Directory Contest. It’s a twist on the regular SEO contests and it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out.

I’ve got two entries

1. RealState for Real Estate has a Directory Contest page
2. Property Investment Directory has a Directory Contest page

In both cases the links aren’t visible on the directory homepage and the links are 2 or 3 clicks into the site.

More »

May 30, 2006

Surprise Me!

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development

Well not really, but a DP’er wanted to know how to pull a random link from a directory and direct her visitor there. Not my style of surfing but hey…

You can see Surprise Me working over at Top 100 vBulletin, just look down the menu on the left hand side.

Here’s the code More »

May 2, 2006

AllTheWeb: the elephant that never forgets

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

I got an email from Jim Messenger today asking me to fix up my Property Investment directory. Well, it needs it, just not for the reasons that Jim was talking about.

Take a look at this! More »

January 9, 2006

Top 100 vBulletin Forums

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

On a whim I decided to purchase the domain Top 100 vBulletin and put a wsnlinks directory on the site to rank vBulletin forums.

The only requirement is that External Data is turned on giving me access to external.php.

I’m then ranking the forums based on

• Number of threads
• Ratings by visitors to the directory
• Google’s PR

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November 15, 2005

Skaffe.com melts down?

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

Skaffe.com is a big directory with paid and free submissions that has ambitions to topple DMOZ.

They have a way to go to but the directory has lasted a few years and continues to grow.

I just wanted to check something out tonight and found I could get the index page but none of the categories - and the index looked pretty broken too.

Skaffe have an important role to play, lets hope they don’t stay broken for long!