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Alexa Announces New Ranking Algorithm 2008-04-17 11:49:48 After using the same system for the last 10 years, Alexa
has changed the way they rank website traffic. They have used the Alexa Toolbar as their basis of traffic rankings. The problem with this system is that it relied on users who downloaded the Alexa toolbar. Webmasters had more incentive than [...] Read more:Ranking
Wow - A List of Over 600 Article Directories 2008-04-15 14:31:28 I have been working pretty hard at reaching the 10,000 directory mark and we are really, really close. I have put a real push on in the last couple of days. As a result of finding some good article directories, the article directory list has doubled to more than 600 listings. Listings include [...] Read more:Article
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Bill Gates Admits that Vista Sucks 2008-04-10 11:28:46 I am so not a fan of Vista
. I woke up this morning and my machine had rebooted because Windows had installed another update during the night. My machine is even sloowwwwer than yesterday. I didn’t think it was possible. Sure I can get more memory but I shouldn’t have to. [...] Read more:Bill Gates
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We have gone to the dogs 2008-04-10 11:09:43 With close to 10,000 directories I needed some extra help. We would like to introduce our newest team member Zoey.
Zoey is our Golden Retriever. She has been very busy. She has collected 100 pet/animal directories. She is especially proud of the 27 dog directories. She is trying to [...]
Google can now crawl and index content really fast 2008-04-08 15:20:36 I have been noticing of late, how a well placed link on a good, frequently spidered site can improve your rankings in a matter of hours. It used to take weeks. Examples of these sites would be forums and blogs. Important sites that change frequently tend to get spidered and re-indexed often.
Here [...] Read more:crawl
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If I had a nickel for every directory that has disappeared 2008-04-04 10:07:39 Our directory list is quickly approaching 10,000 listings but I have probably added thousands more over the last couple of years. I have notice a huge amount of directories disappearing. I have seen the "parked site" page so many times that I can’t wait until they show a different picture.
Too many directories are disappearing. [...] Read more:disappeared
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USA and Canadian Regional Directories 2008-04-03 12:24:51 I have just completed some in dept research for US and Canadian
directories. I have hundreds of new ones and have added them to our list of USA directories and our list of Canadian directories. Good examples of the US state listings are the California and Florida categories.
Canadian listing include [...] Read more:Directories
A big increase in our Podcast Directory Listings 2008-04-01 21:17:45 For the podcast crowd, checkout our list of Podcast
directories. I just researched and added a bunch of podcast directories (about 45 new ones). The list is clean and should be useful for marketing a podcast. The podcast category is part of our ever increasing Internet Press section. Read more:Directory
The victim of our own success 2008-03-31 13:40:19 Yes, we are becoming a victim
of our own success. The bigger our list gets (9200 listings and increasing fast) the more time it takes to keep current. We try to use automated methods whenever possible, like keeping track of things like dead links.
Our biggest problem is identifying the sites that have switched from Free [...]
Hundreds of new free directories to our list of 2000 free directories 2008-03-27 10:33:43 I have been really busy over the last 3 days. First, I did a major cleanup on the existing listings. I removed a bunch of dead or inappropriate ones. It is funny how sites can completely change over short period of time. I then moved about [...] Read more:Hundreds
Cool new Google features - Space and Moon 2008-04-24 09:29:04 After conquering Earth, Google
looks like they have set their sites wet on the rest of our solar system.
Google has recently released a new service showing space. I can explain what they have but you can get a much better idea yourself at A picture really is worth a thousand words. [...] Read more:features
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The Latest Directory PR Stats - Directories are holding their own 2008-05-05 12:43:39 Here are the latest stats of our PR, based on the 10,000+ directories in our database. Without getting into any real math it appears that PR is up across the board, except for the NA category.
Directories
in Web-Directories.ws Database
The following table is a comparison before and after the latest PR update.
The size [...] Read more:Directory
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Google’s Advice for Choosing a SEO Company 2008-05-09 09:40:49 Google actually offers some pretty good advice for choosing a SEO
company. Some of the advice is self-serving but much of it would be useful to anyone that is new to Search Engine Optimization. Read more:Google
A new list of 110 free general directories that accept deep links 2008-05-13 12:23:14 At the request of a user on DP forum, we just created a brand new list
of free general directories that accept deep links
. With few exceptions, these same directories also accept sub-domains.
The list is fresh and should be useful. A big thanks goes out to our directory submissions crew, as I [...]
An updated list of 200+ Real Estate Directories 2008-05-16 12:52:37 We have just done some work on our real estate directory list. We have added 100 new real estate directories and added some new regional categories for North America (Canada & USA) and Europe.
We are investigating the possibility of offering a niche real estate directory submission service on our sister site best-web-directories.com. If [...] Read more:Directories
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New Real Estate Directory Submission Service 2008-05-19 18:07:31 We have just implemented a new Real EstateDirectorySubmissionService
on our sister site best-web-directories.com. It is based on our list of real estate directories which now has close to 250 listings.
The free real estate directories are definitely in the minority, although we have managed to find about 45 free ones. The actual number [...]
Two reasons I don’t recommend starting an article directory 2008-05-28 14:16:32 Here are the two reasons I don’t recommend starting an article directory.
1. There are way too many already. I have 850 article directories listed on this site. Some of the niche article directories look useful but the there are way too many general ones to make a new article directory profitable.
2. The [...]
Submitting deep links to free general directories 2008-05-29 16:39:28 Although they have offered deep link submission for years Best-Web-Directories.com has just created a new custom process for deep link submissions. The new form allow clients to enter 1 or 2 internal pages. They also have the option of entering homepage submissions. It is always good to mix both homepage and deep [...] Read more:links
Should I Upgrade to Firefox 3.0? 2008-06-19 15:06:09 Firefox released a new version of their popular open source web browser this week. Their supporters were hoping to set a record. The browser was downloaded more than 8 million times within the first 24 hours it was available. I bet Microsoft if envious, wishing people were installing Vista at that pace (or at least [...] Read more:Firefox
For people that have had bad experiences with Paypal 2008-06-26 22:39:05 For people
that have had bad experiences
with Paypal have a look at I was quite amazed at the problems people had with Paypal’s methods.
They routinely shut down people’s accounts for minor things. It doesn’t seem to matter if you have thousands of transactions and are a loyal customer. It has been [...]
DMOZ is down 2008-06-24 10:11:08 Dmoz.org has been down for at least 14 hours. Last night , when doing a routine check for valid directories in our list I noticed that dmoz was down. It has been down all morning.
It is likely a denial of service attack or some other hacker type of attack. The site certainly is not popular [...]
Google Toolbar PageRank Update 2008-07-29 07:59:24 Google has updated their toolbar PageRank
over the weekend. It looks like a full update but I haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary.
I am in the process of updating the PR on web-directoires.ws’ 11,000 directories. It will take a few days. I am limited to updating about 1300 directories at a time and do [...] Read more:Google
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If it is too good to be true then it probably is! Yahoo 2008-07-18 19:26:41 If in doubt ask yourself this question;
Is it too good to be true?
When there is doubt in my mind about something then I ask this question.
As an example, we recently saw some offers of 1 year Yahoo
listings for $50. The usual price is $299. Dozens of people paid their $50 and were listed on [...]
The Latest PageRank Stats - Directories are Still Holding Their Own. 2008-08-06 12:29:51 It took a while but I finally finished updating PR on web-directories.ws. I also cleaned up all the dead links. That task alone is starting to be very time consuming as the numbers of directories listed gets higher and higher.
Here are the stats from the Google PageRank
update from the end of July 2008. [...] Read more:Directories
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Google surprises everyone with a brand new browser 2008-09-02 14:56:50 Google just released an open source web browser
(in beta). According to Google it’s a “browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier”. They built it from the ground up. It it built for handling web applications rather than web pages.
The amazing thing is that [...] Read more:everyone
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Google has Updated PageRank Manually Lately 2008-08-27 11:15:31 I have noticed that quite a few of my sites have had their PR updated over the last week or two. The sites affected are both directory and non-directory sites. I have taken steps to remove ads on these sites. These are sites that likely had a manual penalty for selling links in the past. [...] Read more:Google
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Free directories that accept deep links 2008-09-22 14:34:26 I have just made some updates to our list of free directories that accept deep links
. These are general directories that accept internal links and sub-domains.
A big thanks goes out to our directory submission service crew. This list was compiled from the directories that we submit to as part of our [...]
New Microsoft commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld 2008-09-19 09:28:24 Many parts of the world have not seen the new Microsoft
commercial. It’s a minute and a half and it’s about nothing (of course).
See the microsoft commercial.
Seinfeld reportedly received $10 million for a short series of ads. If you haven’t seen the ad yet you may not get to see it (except on youtube). It [...] Read more:Bill Gates
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