Gabriel Harper's Blog

This huge list of 76 script directories took several hours to compile, but it’s a goldmine for anyone selling online software. This is one mega list of script directories that let you submit your PHP scripts, turnkey scripts, and other website scripts. Most are free, some are paid or offer paid options. Some of these script sites get tons of traffic. Getting your products listed on the right script directories pays off.

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Google’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 Google vs. directories, Google is also suggesting that we don’t have relevant sites link to us!

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Recently Ivan Widjaya (”Noobpreneur”) was kind enough to invite me for a phpLinkBid Q&A session on his blog. Many folks are curious about how many phpLinkBid sites are really out there now, where this whole bid directory thing is going, and how Webmasters are dealing with SPAM and irrelevant link submissions. Thanks to Ivan’s questions we have a few more answers in this interview with Bidpreneur Directory Blog.

Thanks again Ivan!

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’s disadvantages compared to oh, say, and API!

ALS is also due for some more updates in the somewhat near future and a few small improvements will be ready for public beta soon as well. Feedback, feature requests and complaints should be directed to the ALS forums.

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. The fact that he says DMOZ is “good” only elucidates this.

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Thanks to Directories Forum for the recent interview on phpLinkBid, directories and business in general. Loredan was kind enough to invite me for some important questions on bid directories and some less important questions about my own life. For many details on phpLinkBid history, the growth of phpLinkBid and bid directories, SPAM, future versions of phpLInkBid and more read the full interview at Directories Forum.