Global Internet Index – now there’s a lofty goal!
April 8th, 2009 by Sarah KingI’ve been a bit slack of directory submissions so it’s great to have the opportunity to review and catch up! The Global Internet Index doesn’t come cheap at $25 a listing and that will no doubt deter alot of submissions. On the plus side, if you’ve paid then there is less chance that your site won’t be tainted by bunch of broken links on the page. After all, who would pay, then drop the site?
GII is beautifully skinned and advert free – no adsense, no pop ups or pop unders, the difference is marked and appreciated. Read the rest of this entry »
Fruity Directory
November 29th, 2008 by Sarah King
I’ve been a bit quiet on the directory front lately so its good to get in and review one. Fruity Directory embraces it’s offbeat theme by focussing on the health industry and sticking to it’s niche. It has a bright and cheerful skin which I thought would annoy me no end (I’m no fan of white text on a dark background) but somehow it gets away with it. It’s only on pages like Honey is Healthy that it fails because the Island Ad is too big and it’s hard to read around. While ads are necessary and the blending is lovely – it’s actually offputting for real visitors I’d recommend borders and a smaller size.
The categories are clear and broad and have plenty of sub categories. Take health and fitness as an example. It’s broken down into a further 18 categories. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Yahoo losing control of it’s systems?
May 21st, 2008 by Sarah KingI had reason the other day to ask Yahoo a question about it’s directory and someone who was acting as an agent for the directory. I used their “other abuse” option on the contact forms to ask if the reseller was legitimate.
After a couple of days I got a reply focussed on spam. I replied hoping that I might trigger a human to actually read what I had posted. Given the delay in sending and receiving then surely there was a human involved? Computers are much quicker than that! Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Vital advice about Paid Links
November 18th, 2006 by Sarah KingI’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. Read the rest of this entry »
Directory Contest twists it up
November 7th, 2006 by Sarah KingMike 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
- RealState for Real Estate has a Directory Contest page
- 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Surprise Me!
May 30th, 2006 by Sarah KingWell 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 Read the rest of this entry »
AllTheWeb: the elephant that never forgets
May 2nd, 2006 by Sarah KingI 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! Read the rest of this entry »
