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		<title>25 Forums to Promote Your Directory</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/03/21-forums-to-promote-your-directory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a recently compiled list of 21 25 forums to promote your Web directory. Most of these are directory announcement forums with a few general site announcement and solicitations forums. For the serious/active directory owner you know it&#8217;s important to know all the communities and directory marketplaces out there.

This list is being updated regularly with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google No Longer Suggests Relevant Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Webmaster Guidelines no longer suggests having relevant sites link to yours. They also removed their suggestion of submitting your site to relevant directories. This was brought up in Google Groups recently, and subsequently on the big Webmaster forums Digital-Point and Sitepoint. However based on the logic of these threads, which get pretty heated over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>phpLinkBid Link Effects v1.0 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After lots and lots and lots of work, I have finally launched phpLinkBid Link Effects. This add-on brings some awesome new functionality to phpLinkBid so it&#8217;s a very exciting release. Now phpLinkBid site owners can have a completely new way to monetize their directories, and users can upgrade their links in all kinds of ways. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>phpLinkBid ALS 1.4.2 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just announced an update for the phpLinkBid Advanced Link Statistics Add-on over in the phpLinkBid Forums. This is just a minor update to fix a bug with MSN indexed pages statistics. Crawling has it&#8217;s disadvantages compared to oh, say, and API!
ALS is also due for some more updates in the somewhat near future and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rand Fishkin Discredits Directories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz.org makes several points in this new video diminishing the value of Web directories. I believe Rand made some good points about general link quality that directory owners need to think about whether they like it or not. However his video is an example to me of how little he understands directories. [...]]]></description>
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