Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'directories'

Earlier this month, we polled our audience asking how important is DMOZ to your SEO strategy? As expected, most SEOs take the philosophy of "submit it and forget it." Why? Simply because to many SEOs, it is not worth them...

Posted on July 14, 2009 9:10 AM

There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of web directories. Moderator, incrediBILL, runs directories and he goes off on how many of the submissions are not able writing your titles and descriptions to be click worthy, but...

Posted on May 21, 2009 8:24 AM

A HighRankings Forum thread asks how does one distinguish between a good and bad web directory. Web directories are often the first step for many link building campaigns. The obvious directories that come to mind to submit to are dmoz.org...

Posted on March 26, 2009 5:10 AM

The Yahoo Directory is rarely talked about any more, but it was one of the first search engines (i.e. human based search). In January 2002, Yahoo began charging an annual fee for your site to be submitted to the Yahoo...

Posted on March 18, 2009 8:33 AM

We all know about Google's latest change to the webmaster guidelines, where they removed directories as a good source of links. Having seen that, SEOs and webmasters ask themselves, if seeking links from directories is worth it anymore. A WebmasterWorld...

Posted on October 13, 2008 10:28 AM

Last night, Google update their Webmaster Guidelines to remove a single line that reads: Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites. In fact, I was...

Posted on October 3, 2008 8:20 AM

At High Rankings Forum, a member is looking to submit to web directories and wonders if it's worthwhile to submit the entire optimized website title to the directory. Will it go over well? Not usually, from what I've seen. In...

Posted on April 8, 2008 10:20 AM

A WebmasterWorld member asks how to find local directories for link building purposes. One member suggests that you search with "directory + [your local area]" on Google or Yahoo to find some really targeted local directories. There are also some...

Posted on March 24, 2008 9:48 AM

Sphinn users report that the DMOZ homepage is missing from the Google results. While you can still do a site:dmoz.org search and find a few million results, searching for "dmoz" alone won't bring up the homepage. A screenshot, taken by...

Posted on September 24, 2007 9:02 AM

Over the past week or so, there has been a ton of discussion over Google banning directories. You can find discussion at these threads: DigitalPoint ForumsSphinnDigitalPoint ForumsI have reviewed most of the posts in the threads. While some directories seemed...

Posted on September 7, 2007 7:43 AM

Let's say that when you first built your site, you relied heavily on directories to get your name out. You've also built good content and get linked to every so often. You're now complacent with your rankings primarily because you're...

Posted on July 19, 2007 9:43 AM

Yesterday, the Google Custom Search Engine blog announced a pretty cool addition to the Google Custom Search engine family: the ability to integrate Google Custom Search onto your page which will search all pages that you've linked to. You can...

Posted on June 14, 2007 11:49 AM

Over the weekend, Matt Cutts updated his recent blog post about how to report paid links. He added some questions and answers which gave the members of the Search Engine Watch Forums an idea of a quality directory. Since Google...

Posted on May 15, 2007 9:23 AM

Is it useful for your search engine optimization efforts to focus on building directories? Which directories are optimal? In a Cre8asite Forums thread, these questions are discussed. EGOL writes in with a very valuable piece of information: If it is...

Posted on May 7, 2007 9:54 AM

Bill at WebmasterWorld started a thread saying Google launched a Chinese Directory at http://daohang.google.cn/. He adds that the directory "has a lot of AJAX that will let you move sections around so that you can customize the layout." Here is...

Posted on March 12, 2007 8:34 AM

Word comes from the forums that DMOZ is again accepting submissions for site inclusions in their directory. On December 20, 2006, we reported Open Directory Project (DMOZ) Coming Back From the Dead with the reopening of the editor area. Now...

Posted on January 15, 2007 1:44 AM

Back on October 26th, we reported Yahoo! To Add No Yahoo Directory Tag. Since then, it has been very quiet on the Yahoo! front for this topic. Finally, Tim Mayer of Yahoo! replied to the questions as to when it...

Posted on December 18, 2006 7:33 AM

The popular Microsoft bCentral directory has announced they closed their doors to new business. As of November 15, 2006 Microsoft will no longer accept new sign-ups for select Microsoft Online Small Business Services. This means that those who were in...

Posted on November 28, 2006 7:18 AM