Uncover the Net - Interview with Shawn Walters

Shawn Walters, owner of Uncover the Net, graciously agreed to an interview. You can find out his thoughts about his directory and the directory industry at:
http://www.avivadirectory.com/downloadblog/?p=286

 

really a good info..means the link u have provided is really good/helpful for me. Hope will be for others as well.

thanks
w.s

 

Nice, thanks.

 

Cool read.. thanks

 

Interesting read thanks

 

That was really a nice read.
I liked the answer to question # 3.

 

nice story to all directory owners...thanks!

 

Nice read. Thanks for sharing, Jeff.

 

He dont know SEOmoz

Anyway, nice read.. Nice directory..
I like your style of linking aviva subcategories in the post

 

Interesting.

Good Job Jeff!

 

Nice Info. Thanks for sharing.

 

Nice choice onlinedude. Good read; gives a bit of an insight on where UTN is headed in the future and I wish them continued success with their future endeavors.

 

good read, thanks for posting...sounds like the key to success is hard work! no shortcuts...

 

Hmmm.....not bad. I like the way the interview is conducted. By the way, what's the meaning of "taxonomy"? Big words make my head ache and my ass itch.

 

Yup hard work always pays, but there are shortcuts too you do not want to hear about them though

 

haha wait wait that's not what i meant -- tell me about the shortcuts too please, o wise webmaster

 

Sorry if i tell u i would have to kill yaa. So aint happening.

 

thanks for sharing that bro.
keep the good work always sharing ..

 

Thanks Jeff, some well put together open questions. Nice interview.

 

Thanks for all of your kind words!

Yes, I think that's something the industry really needs to emphasize. For instance, we're always looking for directories - do we look for them in the search engines? No. If you were looking for a blogs to add to your feedreader on a topic that interests you, you probably wouldn't go to a search engine either. Etc, etc.

Heh! Some good internal linking never hurt anyone.

Basically, for directories, it's how the categories are set up. More precisely:

"Taxonomy (from Greek taxis meaning arrangement or division and nomos meaning law) is the science of classification according to a pre-determined system, with the resulting catalog used to provide a conceptual framework for discussion, analysis, or information retrieval."

From: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci331416,00.html

I can understand the headache... Do you have a second brain down there that's causing the itch? ;-)