The Directory Contest

There’s a great contest running around between the directory owners to find out the best directory of them all, winning this contest can bring you lots of cash and more importantly a lot of credibility in the industry.

So if you dont have any directory yet then start one hurry up because it has some great prizes to give away to the best directories.

1st Prize: $1,200 in cash
2nd Prize: $400 in cash
3rd Prize $200 in cash

And various other prizes too, for more information visit the official website http://www.directorycontest.com/

The competition is becoming tougher day by day and the participation of some of the major directories like WoW and Sevenseek had made this contest even more challenging, it would be really great to see who wins it in the end.

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SEO The Things To Avoid

Don’t use the same Title Tag throughout your site. Try using a unique Title tag for each web page and use your most important keywords in the Title tags that hold theme relevance to that page.

Don’t use any other META tags such as author, date, etc. unless you absolutely need it. This will just increase your page size and will not do any good to your site.

Most major engines cannot read frames so I will advice you that you don’t use it but If you must use frames, include important body text within a tag.

Avoid using completely Flash designs because a majority of major engines can’t index flash sites and Flash sites take some time to open fully so it my be frustrating for visitors who don’t use a broadband to wait hours for the site to open.

Avoid using JavaScripts or JavaScript links. Spiders cannot crawl links in Java Script so its better that you don’t use JavaScripts but if you must use it then make sure that you use a text link at the bottom of each page.

Keyword stuffing: Keyword stuffing refers to the extremely repetition of a keyword when it is not even needed. Many people stuff keywords in their pages in order to increase their keyword density and thus get a high ranking. But be careful as I said its very very risky please don’t try this it may get you banned.

Invisible or Tiny text: Many webmasters use tiny text and invisible text in order to rank high by showing lots of text to search engines but at the same time making it invisible for the humans this also viewed as spam.

Never submit more than the allowed number of pages per engine per day or week. Each search engine has a limit and exceeding their limits can be seen as spamming the search engines.

Do not participate in link farms or link exchange programs. Search Engines have identified them as spam and they don’t want you to use it.

Don’t use “&id=” parameter if you want maximal Googlebot crawlage (many sites use “&id=” with session ID’s that Googlebot usually avoids URL’s with that parameter).

Don’t stuff your page with keywords and no content. The search engines will penalize you for this and view your page as spam.

Do not put redirects or META refresh tags on your page for any reason. They will get your pages banned from the search engines. A common trick used to be to create a page 100% text and highly search engine friendly but of 0% user value, then have a redirect to the real page. This doesn’t work anymore - avoid it.

Always remember to use navigation menu at the right side of each page of your site, why? because search engines count the first few phrases appearing on the page, this way you would provide the search engines the content first.

Make your site is search engine friendly. Its no use having the best site in the world which no one can find. And for every one’s sake don’t mess around with hidden layers to get a high listing on the engines. It is JUST NOT worth the risk!

Don’t link to a bad neighbor, because linking to a bad neighborhood can get your site banned from the search engines as soon as his site gets banned by the search engine the search engine may ban you also.

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Directory of directories

Almost every webmaster has list of free directories to promote a website. I found that directories of good directories became more popular than ever. Only Directory Critic jumped to top 10 000 according Alexa in less than 1 year. They have 1000s visitors already.

Some directories lists websites die because webmasters just list 500-2000 free directories and never update them. In 2-3 monthes you can throw this list in the trash because bunch directories don’t offer free submissions anymore, dissapear, got sold, redirect.

Here the 2 directory of directories who keep their list updated all the time.

  1. Directory Critic
  2. Best Web Directories

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Can you even think that Shoaid Akhtar can sing!

Well its really strange but all the cricket fans out here must have seen the deadly bowling of the one of the world’s fastest Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar but have you ever seen him singing no not yet then check this out and you would be surprised

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aeqwt0riSus

I just found it while searching something on YouTube, I have never thought that Shoaib Akhtar can sing so well.

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Reciprocals or One Ways Which One Is Better?

There’s a lot of confusion in people’s mind about one way links and link exchanges and their effect on the rankings. People often ask which one is going to give me better results, reciprocal links or one way links.

Reciprocal linking means you link someone and he links back to you but as Google and most of the other major search engines are looking for natural things so they do consider these type of links as less important ones.

Whereas one way links are the incoming links to your site from the sites to whom you you dont link to, this type of links are seen as natural by the search engines and thus they give you more importance.

So are reciprocal links useless? no reciprocal links are easy to achieve than the one way links they are less important but still important ones, as we know that every link counts.

So the main criteria should be to get as many one way links as you can but also shouldn’t reject an opportunity to get reciprocal links.

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Google, Yahoo & MSN to Team Up

Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN are going to team up to improve the web crawl process and to make it easier for web site owners to make sure their sites get included in the web indexes.

The companies are going to adopt Google’s Sitemaps protocol, the protocol will be open for other search engines too.

more information here

But this is definitely a great news for specially those webmasters who are suffering from not getting indexed.

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Best Paid Directories

“What are the best paid directories I can submit to” this is a very common question I often hear on several forums so I thought to compile a list of some of the best paid directories in my eyes.

Following is the list of top 15 directories which I think are the most important ones.

  • Yahoo Directory ($299)
  • Business.com ($199)
  • BOTW ($149)
  • JoeAnt ($39.99)
  • Aviva Directory ($34.95)
  • Alive Directory ($34.95)
  • GoGuides ($39.99)
  • Sevenseek ($40)
  • Chiff ($59.95)
  • bCentral ($49)
  • Uncoverthenet ($39)
  • WoW Directory ($35)
  • Incrawler ($24.95)
  • V7N Directory ($49.95)
  • Umdum ($40)

The total amount of you would have to spend on these 15 directories is $1134.73, but I would highly recommend you to submit to the above directories as they will give you some very strong back links.

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The best forums you can post in

A lot of people have a lot of questions but they simply seem to be lost in this big internet world, a lot of questions in mind about search engine optimization, webmasters, programming, directories etc but dont know where to get these answers.

So I have compiled a list of the best 5 forums where you can really have a great time not only get all your answers but you also enjoy being at these places, following is the list:

  1. Digital Point Forums
  2. V7N Forums
  3. SEW Forums
  4. High Rankings Forum
  5. IHelpYou Forums

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Sufi Directory

Hello everyone,

You might be aware of my new general web directory, the Sufi Directory this is the first time that I have jumped into the directory industry, the main aim of why I have started out a directory is not to earn hecks of money, but I want to provide people some high quality links.

As I jave just started the directory so I would need a few thousand dollars to effectively promote it so I would be thankful to get your support. Any type of support is appreciated.

I may make the directory open for free submissions once I reach that target, but that is a bit far currently.

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