Gabriel Harper's Blog

Here’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’s important to know all the communities and directory marketplaces out there.

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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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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’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. The system was built to support a very flexible system for effects and administrators can customize to their heart’s desire.

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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