Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'directory'

On Thursday, we broke the news that the Yahoo Directory had no PageRank via a WebmasterWorld thread. Matt Cutts of Google quickly commented saying that the Yahoo Directory has a PageRank of 8. Matt was referring to the home page,...

Posted on June 8, 2008 3:34 PM

Just a few weeks ago, people started noticing that the Yahoo Directory lost Google PageRank. Well, not the home page of the Yahoo Directory, but the inside directory listing pages. The pages that link to your site and, in the...

Posted on June 5, 2008 10:28 AM

Less than a month ago, entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki launched Alltop, a site that combines the best of the best in an easy to read format. Over at Sphinn, Kalena Jordan acknowledges that a number of known SEO blogs made it...

Posted on April 2, 2008 9:30 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

Remember the Google Directory, yes it is powered by the Open Directory Project (DMOZ.org), well it has finally been updated. After 19 months of having old data, Google finally pulled an RDF dump of the ODP directory as of August...

Posted on August 20, 2007 10:09 AM

An article in the Wall Street Journal says that Business.com, an online marketing directory, was sold for $345 million. Business.com works as a kind of online yellow pages. It allows users to search for business services, while collecting a bounty...

Posted on July 27, 2007 9:20 AM