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If you are running your web directory properly, there will be a time when you need to re-check your listed sites – are they still exist? This is important considering the negative impact of keeping such non-existent site links in your web directory. A couple of reasons why you should prune your web directory listing: [...]

One of my acquaintances, one of the leading web directory business owners today, has just transformed one of his general directories into a niche one. What’s the reason behind the transformation and how to do it the right way? GlobeWebDirectory.com, was a free general web directory, is now a premium legal web directory. Why go [...]

I have just stumble a good thread on DigitalPoint forums giving you “good reasons” to create a crappy directory. When it comes to directory, “crappiness” are mainly measured in term of SEO. Here are some ways to help you build a really bad directory: 1. Use the same database on your network of directories, containing [...]

Web directory business is under the spotlight in the last several years due to some facts: Web directories’ role has been reduced significantly in SEO/link building and it is saturated with low quality directories that are either link farms or dead ones. It’s obvious that if you really want to establish a web directory, you [...]

Having link title, description and keywords in your web directory’s listing detail pages is so a decade ago. Today, web directories need to add some flairs into their listing. How so, and how to do so? One answer: Google Panda. With Google Panda updates, no site can escape the fact that it must contain original, [...]

I’ve just stumbled on an interesting post containing many Q-and-As regarding this particular issue: How to report paid links. I am particularly interested in one Q-and-A about paid links, review fees and web directory quality that basically answers this question: How do you know that you submit to a quality web directory? Here is the [...]

Did you know what so-called experts suggest you on keyword to target for your web directory? Yep, you’ve guessed right: Many would suggest “web directory,” “link directory,” “business directory,” “real estate directory,” and so on… So wrong. So misleading. I’ve found a valuable advice – probably one of the best advice – on web directory [...]

We all know that DMOZ/ODP is a quality directory; we also know that BOTW (Best of the Web) is a quality directory. So does Yahoo! Directory. The problem is, those are the authority ones. How about the rest? How do we know whether a directory is high quality or not? There are ways to “detect” [...]