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Just like Roy Thomsitt, I too have never searched for or liked web directories. His article talks about how Google may be honing in on search directories and decreasing their rankings with their new algorithm update.
“No directory owner has the divine right to syphon off Google’s hard won search customers. Google is doing a decent […]

I do a fair amount of griping about DMOZ with my major beefs being no way to track submissions and no sign if your submission was rejected, misplaced, rerouted or just sitting in purgatory for review. DMOZ bashing can be an art for some and so can the backlash from editors. Personally, I always tried […]

DMOZ (ODP - Open Directory Project) is closing down their site submission status request forum.
Our feedback indicates that the information we are giving out really is not a practical help in the vast majority of cases.
Huh. So finding out if your submission has been moved to a different category, lost, misplaced or rejected is […]

Over the past 8 weeks or so, we have seen many changes among the search engines. Search engines changing their ranking algorithms or the nature of their service is nothing new, however so much has happened in such a short amount of time that I though it would be beneficial to talk about much of […]

About Search Directories
Many of you are already familiar with Yahoo, the most popular search directory, but are not familiar with the other major directories and/or the difference between a directory and a search engine.
I’ll tackle the latter first. A directory works very much like a phone book. Web site owners submit their sites into a […]