Update on Directory Contest – Directorycontest.com
Just a very quick update on the recent contest I have decided to participate in Directorycontest.com/
Looks like I jumped up to a 12th place on the first crawl/indexing Result page. Thats quite ok. Now the detail page just has to get a little time to suck the wonderful juice out of the internal links strengths, and I should rocket up on 1. page 😀
If I wanted, then I could have tweaked a real nice category with both keywords “directory” and “contest”, but dont think its wise to turn it into a 100% SEO contest.
This IS about finding the strong directories, and not the best SEO experts.
more info will follow as I get the results pages checked
Further update 15. dec:
I have not been able to find anything in the rules about number of entries pr. person allowed, so decided for the heck of it to add my brand new paid directory AllUcDirectory in the directorycontest.com
I do not expect anything from this at all, and cannot expect anything from a site less than a week old.
Further update 30. dec.
Have been working alot the past few weeks, and have just made a check on the rankings again and will update here:
www.global-weblinks.com fell 2 places and is at 14th position
www.allucdirectory.com has climbed to 29th position
Usage of rel=nofollow on directories. Its not all bad
Ok, I think a post explaining the use of rel=nofollow on some of my directories is in order, so I can explain the very good reasons why I have done this, as there are much confusion on the internet about this tag. Many rate a directory useless if they spot a nofollow tag somewhere on the pages within.*SHHHH. Let me share a secret with you: That belief is not always true*
Background:
After some intense testing on my pages, categories and detailpages it became clear that eg. Global WebLinks Directory was leaking its PageRank / PageStrength so fast, that only the first main category pages got some link juice and spreaded it out on the first 20 listings in the main category (Page 1). Some categories have 600+ listings, so that means the directory became pretty useless for 580 other listings in the category.
My mission is to give everyone a fair chance of the link popularity my page can offer, and not only the alphabetically top. Importaint to remember the directory IS free.
A brilliant tag has been made rel=”nofollow” where I can try to control the flow of link juice, so with precise and specific usage, I can keep the link juice inward and first spread it out on the detail pages that every listing has in the directory.
I have made a few data flow diagrams to show how the internal / external links is distributed.
This shows the distribution I make. Instead of ALOT of outgoing links on the “linkfarmish” category pages, I throw it all down to the subcategories and detailpages, which will then provide every link in the system with a indexed backlink with moderate strength.
To say it short: I take the high linkstrength from the sites first in alphabeth and give it more equally to all. (Robin Hood style)
I also run a Toplink program (featured listings) and as a thank for their backlink or payment, they are the only ones in the directory without any rel=nofollow flags at all.
You can see a diagram below for TopLinks.
The reason for my confidence relies on many tests done on my Regional Danish Directory and the power of this method has become so so clear.
I get alot of quality traffic now from searchengines, directly down to the high ranking detailpages on the directory. Everybody wins by this. I get more traffic/more indexed pages and higher incomming links chance because of the bigger audience, which serves the detailpages = linkowners in the end.
An explanation of the diagrams:
I might add more to the post in time, but guess this goes for a quick explanation.
Casino Games Directory made today
The casino market seems to have a keen interest in submitting to directories, as I daily get some casino related site submitted to mine. And with inspiration from my good friend Frank, I used the day to setup a new directory dedicated to Casino Game sites. AboveAllCasinoGames.com 🙂
Again I want to make it grow into a quality directory over the comming years, so the fees are set pretty high for a completely new directory.
Over time I might remove my poker and casino category from my other directories and keep all gambling related sites strictly to: AboveAllCasinoGames.com. This is something I will decide over time.
New Paid Quality Directory created today
After about 15 hours of work I have my new Paid Directory ready for launch.
AllUcDirectory.com is my newborn directory, and it will be one of the directories I will continue to work hardest on to get a good and strong directory for the future. (This will mean days, weeks, months, years of promoting it)
The directory is based on my own script used on all my other directories aswell.
The directory will be ad-free. Meaning no adsense or affiliate banners.
It will only accept quality content sites. (Quality over money)
All listings is permanent and will remain to atleast year 2050
I will have a max # listings in each category. Not set yet, but probably 15-20
Prices for submitting is set high, as this in time will be a high PageRank / Page Strong directory.
– Featured $44.85
– Featured Deep Link $54.85
– Standard $14.85
– Standard Deep Link $24.85
– Standard with Reciprocal (PR2 minimum) $6.85
Directorycontest.com a Contest for Directories
I just found this Directory Contest through my favorite forum DP. Its a great competition between directory owners, to show how good and strong their directory is.
Winners will be the top 10 directories that show up on Google search on the Directory Contests webpage “directorycontest.com”
End date for the contest is February 6. 2007, 10 AM P.S.T
Prizes are donated by several sponsors, and the total prizesum keeps going up as more sponsors join in.
1. Prize $2000
2. Prize $400
3. Prize $200
+ alot of other goodies. See the current prizes here
I love this. After working hard all year with theese directories I own, I can finally put one of them to the test. I’m gonna use Global WebLinks Directory as my entry. (The wise thing might have been to put it up on my strongest directory Danskelinks.dk, but I really like to try my international directory on this, as it is my plan to improve this directory alot in the new year and it will be my Flag Ship 🙂 )
The directory have had a really hard ride after I made a complete site structure change this summer. Google did not like that change, and I was out in the void for 2 months, and now … slowly … returning to what I would expect of my directory. Traffic is going up by the day, and my audience is turning over to “normal people” from SE and not just webmasters looking for a free link.
Only sad thing is I first spot this competition now 🙂 But I’m sure it will go ok
If you own a directory, then join this contest. I really recommend it!
Internet Explorer 7.0 Test ride – Know your audience
After checking my Browser stats, I’v noticed a high increase in IE 7.0 users to my directories.
In general it is always a good idea to make sure your page(s) work in the prefered browsers used.
Browser Stats from the first 8 hours of the day on one of my sites:
Internet Explorer 6.0 602 / 85%
Internet Explorer 7.0 38 / 5%
Firefox 1.5 26 / 4%
Firefox 2.0 19 / 3%
Safari 12 / 2%
Firefox 1.0 5 / 1%
Internet Explorer 5.5 3 / 0%
Opera 9.0 1 / 0%
Internet Explorer Mac 0 / 0%
Opera 0 / 0%
Mozilla 1.6 0 / 0%
Netscape 7.0 1 / 0%
Mozilla 1.7 0 / 0%
Netscape 7.2 0 / 0%
Ukendt 0 / 0%
Opera 8.5 0 / 0%
Netscape 7.1 0 / 0%
Firefox 0.10 0 / 0%
Mozilla 1.8 0 / 0%
Konqueror 0 / 0%
My first thought about IE 7.0 is very positive. (remark: I have not read any reviews, bug reports or simular about this browser yet), so its a virgin thoughts.
They have clearly had a keen eye on the other browsers on the market, and imported some of the nice feats out there.
The RSS checker actually helped me restore 3 broken rss feeds I didnt know I had. Thanks 🙂
The speed of my IE 7.0 is quite good, and with multiple windows it is still good.
My normal filebrowsing menu is gone. Hmm, I liked that menu so have to find out how to get it back. I’m sure its no problem as you can custimize this browser quite alot.
I will use this browser for some time now and test, and will report back to this post with my thoughts.
Neat tool to measure your page strength
I stumpled upon this great tool from SEOmoz to measure your Page Strength, a measure made by checking various things like inbound links, popularity, mentions of your page across the www.
The tool gives you a relative importance / visibility of a webpage.
I belive this tools is way better to determine how strong a page is, whereas PageRank only gives you a measure of the inbound links
Aviva directory has made a collection of various paid directories and their link strength. Check them out
How to promote a new blog?
Even though I have been around for some time now on the internet, I have never thought about how I could promote blogs effectively and specific my new Webmaster Blog here.
If anyone drop by and know of some great way. Promotion tools, good techiques and such, please drop a comment.
I found this so far on my hunt for good tools.
Telemarketer getting as deserved
A friend just sent me this, and it is just to funny, so have to share it with you.
Everyone know the pestillence of the Telemarketers and now it is payback time.
http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/
I wish I had those vocal skills to pull something like this off 🙂
enjoy
Validation / Confirmation script code to stop spammers
I have made a validation script some time ago, I use at eg. my directories when people submit new websites and comments. (ASP / VB)
The last couple of months I have been getting some emails asking how it is done, and a thread on digitalpoint have also talked a bit about it, so here it is.
The theory is very easy.
– Have 2 variables, you generate random numbers and put them in
– Have a third Session variabel that containt the result of the sum of the 2 variables.
– Print the 2 variables to the screen and collect the result in an input field
– At submission, check if Session result = Variable1 + Variable 2
Code:
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<%
intLowNr = 1
intTopNr = 10
Randomize()
ValNr1= Int((intTopNr – intLowNr + 1) * Rnd + intLowNr)
ValNr2= Int((intTopNr – intLowNr + 1) * Rnd + intLowNr)
Session(“ValAns”) = Int(ValNr1+ ValNr2)
userVal=request.form(“userVal”)
if not(isnumeric(userVal)) then
fejlkode=”<br>Wrong validation code. Must be numeric.”
else
if not (Int(Session(“ValAns”)) = Int(userVal)) then
fejlkode=”<br>Wrong validation code. Try again please.”
end if
end if %>
Validation:<b> <%= ValNr1 %> + <%= ValNr2 %> = <input name=”userVal” value=” ” >
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