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<item><title>Submitting to Directories</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:00:46 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submission to online directories still works. Contrary to the widespread rant that directories are dead, they are not. Good directories can still help you rank in Google; you just have to watch for signs of quality. You can still make a website rank for relatively competitive three-keyword-long terms with directory submissions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the best signs of quality is whether a directory is found in search results. If it is, especially on Google, take it as a good sign. It's usually worth the money to buy a link from that directory.   Don't submit to too many directories too fast. Space it out over several months.  Avoid free directories. Directory Description and Anchor Text   Search engines are well aware that SEOs use directories to promote websites, so they've developed technology to spot directory submissions designed to manipulate search results. One of the biggest clues is the use of similar anchor text and descrip...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Directory Submissions</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:00:47 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can still get some mileage out of submitting your web site to directories. If you have been wondering which directories to submit to or how to get your site listed, this article will show you how.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[In this article I hope to give you a thorough and succinct brief on how to submit to directories, when to submit to directories and which directories deserve your submissions. I have been hanging out with several pieces of directory software (which i will talk about briefly) and a great directory submissions and linking expert, Dave Fuentes. I will be drawing on our work together to write an explanatory piece about directory submissions.  Directory submission is one of the most important things to do when you are link building. It is an assured way to get solid one way links back to your desir...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Increasing Your Traffic with Web Directories</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:00:47 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are web directories worth the effort anymore? Why spend the time (and in some cases money) submitting your website to a directory if it seems like nobody uses them anymore? Well, web directories are more useful to attract visitors to your site than you might think. This article gives you the surprising reason why, describes a couple of the biggest web directories, and helps you make the most of this resource.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Web directories have been around for some time now. In fact this is how the ever growing Yahoo! began life on the Internet, as one the biggest and best organized web directories at the time (and even now too).  Web directories were the de facto method that many people used to find the information and websites they were looking for before the search engines because so big, powerful, and popular, and while the directories have been a lot less popular in comparison to fully fledged search engines in recent years, they are still the next best thing to searching and can have an important effect on ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Link Directory Genocide</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:00:47 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Web-Directories/Link-Directory-Genocide/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of a lawsuit an online company named KinderStart filed against Google for dropping its placement in the search engine results pages (SERPs), one has to wonder just what these people are thinking; theyre suing a now-giant corporate web presence like Google when, ultimately, it is not really Googles fault that the website has fallen off so drastically.   One only has to search through the site in question to see that it is nothing more than a complex link directory.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you aren't up to date on the news,  read this report on it. It is my professional opinion that the link directory has been dying a slow and painful death for many, many months now, as if it was inoculated with some terrible and terminal disease.  Actually, I've been saying it for about a year, and like my opinion of reality TV shows, enough is enough!  I understand that I might anger a few with this article, but because I feel strongly enough about what I am going to say, I am willing to risk angering some in order to hopefully enlighten others. First of all, one has to initially wonder wha...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>The Link Directory:  Just Another Form of Link Farm?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directories are everywhere, on any topic imaginable.   As SEOs, we even promote submissions to link directories as a good method of getting backlinks.   But with more and more link directories popping up all over the web, are we somehow helping to promote a new type of link farm? A few years ago, link farms were easy to find.   Today, you rarely ever see them.   One could assume that the link farm syndrome has been cured.   Or has it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a time when it seems you cannot escape web spam, spammers are finding more and better ways at creating the unwanted junk.  Search engine engineers work hard to filter out such garbage, so that the search engine results are relevant to a user's query.  And while spammers seem to always be either one step ahead of the search engines, or able to exploit holes in algorithms, search engines work hard at fixing these things so that we have a better search experience.  However, we are still bombarded on every side with it.  We get it in our email, in our blogs, in our forums, and even in our link ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Using Internet Directories as a Link Building Tool</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:00:02 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most website owners think of Internet directories, if they even consider them at all, they think of them as a way to gain a one-way incoming link. Inclusion in the various Internet directories is rarely viewed as more than a one-time entry event. The goal is to get listed and gain the inbound link, for better or for worse.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Traffic from some mainstream directories is often low and seldom considered as part of the equation. The potential of the directory listings as a source of potential link partners is rarely thought of as a strategy at all. Directories have far more possibilities hidden within their listings than is generally thought. Many webmasters, and even some search engine optimization experts, ignore the less obvious value residing in the various categories. By looking beyond the obvious single link and search capabilities of an Internet directory, a website owner has a wealth of potential link partners,...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Paid or Free Directory Inclusion</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:06:58 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most business webmasters are aware of such high profile directories as the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) and the Yahoo! Directory. DMOZ is a free option, while the Yahoo! Directory offers paid inclusion for commercial sites. There are other directories that are well worth your consideration. Today, well be looking at a couple of paid and free inclusion directories: Business.com and JoeAnt.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Alternative directories, whether offering free or paid inclusion, provide some highly visible promotion for your website. Many of the less popular directories offer added PageRank, in the form of a strong back-link. The directories also provide qualified referrals, which use the listings to find the goods and services offered by your business. The potential offered by alternative directories is worthy of consideration. While the paid inclusion options may not fit your budget, you certainly want to be aware of whether your competitors are listed. One example of a good paid inclusion directory ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Teoma – The Superior Search Engine?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One search engine that really caught my attention at the search engine strategies conference in Chicago was Teoma. Teoma is the search engine that powers Ask Jeeves, also known as Ask.com. Teoma has made several improvements to its engine over the past year, and  has drastically increased its indexing and the quality of results generated.  Teoma  has a unique method of ranking sites, reffered to as “authority.”   In addition,  Teoma offers a  toolbar and many of the advanced search features that other search engine have.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Teoma's History and Background Teoma's founder and vice president of research and development, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Ph.D, is a Professor of computer science from Rutgers University. Professor Gerasoulis, along with his team of computer scientists founded Teoma in April of 2000. Their single goal was to build a search engine that looked  at the Web in terms of subject-specific communities.  Teoma had the advantage of joining the search engine wars late in the game. This allowed the Teoma team to look at what the current engines did right and - more importantly - what they. Teoma.com was not of...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>eMarketing - Submitting To Directories 'Done' - Now What?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many know that the power of the link helps in search engine ranked positioning. A link is a vote that your website has something of value. Therefore, you have added a submission request in DMOZ.org Open Directory Project, which may take some time to actual list, but immediately thereafter, you are also in Google Directory as Google takes a direct feed from DMOZ.org.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many know that the power of the link helps in search engine ranked positioning. A link is a vote that your website has something of value. Therefore, you have added a submission request in DMOZ.org Open Directory Project, which may take some time to actual list, but immediately thereafter, you are also in Google Directory as Google takes a direct feed from DMOZ.orgAdditionally, by inclusion into DMOZ.org, you will automatically be included in many search engines' exclusive directories such as: gt; AOL gt; Lycos gt; HotBot gt; Teoma gt; Inktomi gt; Altavista gt; Netscape gt; Ask Jeeves   In add...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Fundamental Differences Between Search Engines And Web Directories</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Search engine  and   Web directory  are two different search services available to the Web community; although they are often mistakenly confused.  Search engines have indices that are built up by robots or crawlers; whereas Web directories build up their indices through human editors.  Many search engines and directories contain both a computer-generated index and a human generated index, and are referred to as hybrids.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Search engine  and  Web directory  are two different search services available to the Web community; although they are often mistakenly confused. Search engines have indices that are built up by robots or crawlers; whereas Web directories build up their indices through human editors. Many search engines and directories contain both a computer-generated index and a human generated index, and are referred to as hybrids.Google, Inktomi, AltaVista, AlltheWeb and the like are all forms of search engines. These search engines write programs known as robots, crawlers and/or spiders that have the fol...]]></content:encoded>
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