DirectoryContest.com | 3 days left
The end date for the directory contest among directory owners is quickly coming to an end.
3 more days and we will see what the judges come up with.
At the moment my entry directorycontest.com is at 6. place in Google, and with recent news on some of the top ranking might be breaking general rules it might end even better.
Google show 611.000 results for the term directorycontest.com now, so ending on page 1 is something I can only be proud about.
I know my uniquely build directory is a good and strong one. Now more people will also see this ^^
Next update from me on this will be when the judges have announced the winners on their site.
New Danish Blogs Directory Launched
Ok, it did not take me a week but rather 24 hours to re-code and setup the Danish blogs directory I had been thinking of.
Find it here: DanskeWeblogs.dk – Danish Blogs Directory
It will be free to submit blogs to it – like my other directories. The catch is I’m only accepting blogs from Denmark, but that is a large enough market for me anyways, and a neglected market tbh.
I will make sure this new blog directory will be the leading of it’s kind in Denmark, by this date in 2008.
If you own a danish blog, I urge you to go submit your blog and feed now.
New website getting launched soon: Danish Blog Directory
It’s a thought I’ve had most of 2006 to make a great directory for Danish blogs only, and yesterday I finally bought my domain to place it on. (Domain will be revealed soon)
Denmark has started to bloom with more and more blogs, and they don’t really have any good places to submit them to regionally.
For starters, I will build it up as my traditional directories, but will in time make different functions like:
– Live rss feed viewer on the detail pages.
– Tag clouds.
– Integration of blog and feed search.
– Social bookmarking and blog stats on the detail pages.
– Will try and use Snap thumbnails on this site for the test of it.
I expect a week or so before I have the system setup and the first blogs submitted.
I thank the contributors and current standings overview
To thank the different Danish websites that is supporting me, I have created a page on my Danish directory, where every contributor gets a permanent backlink from a trusted site.
I am thinking of doing the same on Global Web Links Directory, to thank the international sites helping with link support atm.
The “Thank You” pages will be placed permanent on my directories, and will both gain a minimum PR4. (Support me 3 months, and get lifetime backlink. Some are able to see the benefit in this)
Current scores & standings:
Well, there have been a lot of up’s and down’s on the ranking pages. Here is a short resume of my scores. Note: Only counts in the competition.
Domain: www.globalwarming-awareness2007.dk
First found in SERP:2007-01-20 10:00 CMT
Last found in SERP:2007-01-30 14:00 CMT
Points:0
Current Google Rank:23
Best Google Rank:13
Current Yahoo Rank:105
Best Yahoo Rank:18
Current Msn Rank:N/A
Best Msn Rank:N/A
Domain: www.clausheinrich.com
First found in SERP:2007-01-20 05:39 CMT
Last found in SERP:2007-01-30 14:00 CMT
Points:0
Current Google Rank:182
Best Google Rank:30
Current Yahoo Rank:53
Best Yahoo Rank:25
Current Msn Rank:58
Best Msn Rank:1
Domain: science.global-weblinks.com
First found in SERP:2007-01-20 07:38 CMT
Last found in SERP:2007-01-30 14:00 CMT
Points:0
Current Google Rank:107
Best Google Rank:43
Current Yahoo Rank:N/A
Best Yahoo Rank:139
Current Msn Rank:N/A
Best Msn Rank:N/A
Just noticed my blog here has been at 1. position on MSN.. Thats nice
Contest news: directorycontest.com | globalwarming awareness2007
Ok I’ve just had a moment to check the directorycontest.com rankings, and my directory has dropped a few spots. From place 3 to 6, and we only got 9 days left on the deadline.
There is not really much I will do to try and improve the rank. If I end in top 10, I will be very pleased with the outcome. At the moment over 500k websites show results on the search term. That’s very impressive, and a good job they did at promoting this competition.
I have a high respect for all the directories in the competition, and especially those ranking good on this term. It clearly shows they know what they are doing.
Many dir-owners have learned a lot about their own directory and competitors, and this can only improve the field of directories.
After Feb. 6th I will be able to focus some more energy into the seo competition I’m participating in. Globalwarming Awareness2007. Some of my competitors are really going wild on this one, sucking hundreds of new backlinks daily.
New version of WordPress released v2.1 – Ella
Ok, just noticed the new 2.1 version has been released by wordpress. And its called “Ella”.
Here is a list of some of the improvements made:
- Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
- Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
- The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
- Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
- New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
- You can set any page to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
- Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
- Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
- Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
- More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
- Pages can now be drafts, or private.
- Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
- The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
- Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
- Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
- The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
- A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.
Further info on the new version can be found here:
https://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/
I’m gonna wait a little with the update, and follow how it goes from here.
The Directorycontest.com competition is coming to an end
13 days left on the contest among webdirectory owners worldwide.
I am participating with one directory and this is one of my last updates on the progress as I have a large heap of work waiting for me the next few weeks.
As of now, 458,000 pages have been found on the search term “directorycontest.com” which is quite good for this kind a contest.
Today my entry with directorycontest.com has rocketed up to an overall 3. place from a 7. place where I was resting comfortably the last couple of weeks. I hope it can stay that way to the end 🙂
With SERPs you have to know nothing is guaranteed until the end. (Some might remember how the top changed in 15 minutes on the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem contest last year.)
So no time to enjoy any fruits yet, I’m going back to work, and will keep improving the directories that I got running and invite you to submit your own quality sites.
Status on the GlobalWarming Awareness2007 contest
Ok, a lot have happened the first 6 days in the Globalwarming Awareness2007 SEO contest. I will try sum up the things I have noticed.
Google was the fastest SE to catch up on the results, then came Yahoo and MSN as the last one.
Right now around 600.000 pages have been indexed for the search term. Wow
I made my first mistake at launch day, as I was too impatient with my host to get the domain ready. So I just sneaked a couple of backlinks in to my new domain from my directory Global Web Links.. Big big mistake!
Google got a hold on the link from my directory 25 minutes after I set it up and that resulted in Google tried to crawl my new non-existent contest page, returning a DNS error to Googles crawler.
Ugh. That put my www. domain in a holding line for so far 6 days, and I am the only one to blame. Grrr, damn impatience.
The 17th Google found my GlobalWarming Awareness2007 subdomain, crawled and indexed it, but after 1 day, it got removed from the SERPs again.
The 20th Google decided to give my www. domain a new chance, crawled all my pages, and indexed my page as the only one, even though I had 6 pages crawled from the www. domain.
Now today the 21th I realised the last indexed page have also been removed from the SERPs. But I surely expect it to be temporary and all my pages should show up soon, and hopefully rank well.
But lesson learned – Never ever promote a domain where the DNS isn’t setup yet. I’ve never really had a use to do this in the past, and now I sure know not to do it in the future as well 🙂
Would have been fun to be among the first to rank well, but I buried myself on this one.
The initial pages have been setup and I will now keep the focus on backlinks
Update 2 hours later:
Ok things happen fast here, and I’m back into the serps.
Directorylink, just for the link love of it 🙂 Global Warming Awareness2007
My entries on the score card: (https://www.clausheinrich.com/ is not competing)
Jan 21 2007
Jan 23 2007
GlobalWarming Awareness2007 webpage created today
Ok, finally got my entry page made GlobalWarming Awareness2007 as entry in the SEO World Championship 2007.
My host was very slow on this one, and took almost 24h from I registered, to I got the domain *grumble*. BUT, now the page is up.
I am very pleased about the subject they choose for this competition, as it combined 2 of the things I have used years of my life on.
- Web development by living – SEO as a hobby
- Atmospheric Environment that was a part of my education as a laboratory technician at Department of Atmospheric Environment (ATMI)
The system I run, is a CMS I have developed from scratch and tuned over the years to fit my needs. It is not 100% SEO fine tuned, but I think it is better to go with my own code than some free source that might be better in SEO terms, but doesn’t represent me the same way.
The coming days / weeks I will gradually submit more and more content to the website, as I get them written. I don’t want to reuse anybody else’s texts, but rather make my own, and own conclusions to the Global Warming issues we face today.
I have set up a contribution page also at GlobalWarming Awareness2007 Contributors, for those who offer their help to me either by valuable information, tips, or quality backlinks. If you want to help our, feel free to throw me an e-mail and I’ll get back to you.
20 days left on Directorycontest.com
Ok, while I wait for my new domain to get activated *tap tap tap* I might aswell make a quick update on the ongoing Directorycontest.com competition I’m participating in with my directory at: Directorycontest.com
I have been at 7th position the last couple of days and that is just awsome! The directory is something I started out just for fun and have grown to become quite a good resource for webmaster seeking quality backlinks.
Google results show some good and strong directories at the first positions, and is returning 335.000 results on the term “directorycontest.com” atm.
I expect the directoryowners will get a little crazy the last 20 days in stuffing backlinks to their listing to get into the prizes, and that is pretty unavoidable, as the rules allow offsite backlinks.
I wish the competitors good luck and personally hope I can end within the first 10. We’ll see what happends 🙂