Someone told me that my directory is not SEO friendly. I has taken me $500 to boost my directory,so how to make it SEO friendly? In fact I don't know what is SEO friendly.
If it is the one in your sig, then it is SEO-friendly. Not sure why someone would've have said it wasn't.
Simple. Don't use redirected links or nofollow tags, and do use mod rewrite on your category URLs. REDIRECTS/JUMP LINKS The main thing to being search engine friendly is NOT having redirects. In other words, make sure you are providing me with a direct link to my site. for instance: (1) http://www.mysite.com (good) (2) http://www.directory.com/dir.cgi?id=1431434817612. (very bad) Redirects won't count as a backlink in search engines, after all, the directory is not actually linking to YOUR site. To check a directory to see if it's using redirect links, simply place your mouse over a few listings. If the status bar in your browser shows a url that belongs to the directory (like ex. 2 above), then the link is a redirect, and being listed is of no value. One word of caution. I have found a couple directories in the past that use redirects, but use javascript to deceptively show you your address in the status bar, to make you think it's SEO-friendly. NOFOLLOW TAGS Nofollow tags tell search engine spiders to ignore your link, rendering the directory practically worthless to be listed in. To check for nofollow tags: (1) Check the robots.txt file to see if spiders are not disallowed from crawling the pages where the listings are shown. (2) Check the meta tags of listings page to make sure that spiders are not prevented from indexing the page. Ex: meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow". If it says noindex or nofollow, then don't bother submitting. (3) Check a few typical links for the anchor tag contains rel="nofollow". If present, then your link won't be followed by search engine spiders. (4) THE EASIEST WAY TO CHECK for nofollow is for Firefox users. Download this really nice extension from this page. It includes many useful features for webmasters including an option to highlight all NOFOLLOW links on a page. MOD REWRITE Another good idea for a directory is having mod rewrite. What is mod rewrite? It's changing a directory structure that looks something like this #1 below, into #2: (1) http://www.directory.com/cat.php?id=234. (not as good) (2) http://www.directory.com/Computers/Internet/Forums (better)
an addition... be careful when checking for rel=nofollow. Directories WILL use the attribute in association with alexa thumbnails, so don't assume that because nofollow is showing that the directory isn't SEO friendly... Ensure that the nofollow appears in the anchor that refers to the text link.
No its not SEO friendly. directory is listing links with nofollow tag so it won't pass any PR or serach bot will not follow link. just go through http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728
I saw that the Featured Sites were using nofollow, but the main listings looked okay. Seems SEO-friendly to me...
I missed that before. This is definitely not SEO-friendly and the people that bought featured links from you are going to be really pissed.
You can always edit your link.tpl file and delete the "nofollow" option from the template all together.