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Discussion in 'Solicitations & Announcements' started by I. Brian, Mar 22, 2004.

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  1. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #22
    nice list, thanks
     
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    North Carolina SEO Well-Known Member

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    #24
    Gimpsy has a free submission option and gives a strong link.
     
    stoner3221, Jun 6, 2004 IP
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    #25
    Sorry for bumping a reasonably old topic. Just wanted to verify that Blue Universe doesn't require a reciprocal link for acception.
     
    blueuniverse, Jun 30, 2004 IP
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    #26
    I stand corrected blueuniverse, I must say that yours is certainly one of the better directory sites I've visited on my travels. I've also submitted my site, I'll be looking out for it! :)
     
    paulhiles, Jul 18, 2004 IP
  7. Freak

    Freak Banned

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    #27
    http://www.tygo.com/
    http://www.tygo.com/dir/

    Free submission, Apply to be editor, and Quick inclusion.

    In the media recently....
    http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=816
     
    Freak, Aug 25, 2004 IP
  8. liwei

    liwei Peon

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    #28
    I saw this in another post, but could be relevant here:

    www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/
     
    liwei, Aug 26, 2004 IP
  9. iShopHQ

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    #29
    I've launched a free directory - like the web needs another one! - but what the heck, I was bored.

    Super Ultra Mega Web Directory
    www.sumwd.com

    It just went live yesterday, I've loaded a few sites. I might be tweaking some of the format, but the functionality is there.

    1. Posting links is free.

    2. No reciprical link required. If you want to, great, if not, don't.

    3. Browse to the Category/Subcategory you want to post the link under. If the sub-category doesn't exist, browse to the Category you want to suggest a new sub-categoy for and you can suggest it when you suggest the new link.

    4. All links are manually approved.

    5. Links are NOT routed through a redirect, but point directly to the site.

    No PR yet - it's brand new - but I've got some inbounds feeding it that should give it at least a 4, maybe a 5.

    Thanks,
     
    iShopHQ, Sep 1, 2004 IP
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    Congrats on your new project :cool:
     
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    #31
    www.canlinks.net looks not-spiderable.

    page has query parameters, and Google shows no cache...

    http://www.canlinks.net/display/display.cgi?CIP1&0&85023&420
     
    tivnet, Sep 1, 2004 IP
  12. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    All those NZ submissions that have been added today are from me - either my sites or those of my friends. If you have any feedback, just let me know. On your confirmation page you have a spot for email, but you don't actually ask for it.

    Good luck with the project.

    Sarah
     
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  13. tivnet

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    #33
    Looks nice. Can you add Education category?
     
    tivnet, Sep 1, 2004 IP
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    Suggest categories for posting music venues, musicians, artists in visual art area, web design, early childhood education, math reference, genealogical pages, recipes, board games, etc.

    Thanks,
    Shannon
     
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    #35
    NZ subs were good, though I moved a few around

    Added Music with a subs of Reviews, Stores, and Types of Music (with subs under that)

    I see web design under Internet - added it there

    I added a Home & Family and put Parenting, Recipes & Cooking, Family Games, Genealogy under it

    Added Art as a main cat.....

    And thanks for the encouragement!
     
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  16. tivnet

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    #36
    I guess, you are going to be busy with approvals for next couple of years... :)

    I have a question about spiderability.

    There was a theory that /dir/95.html
    is better than /dir.asp?cat=95

    Is it still true? I noticed that Google started displaying dynamic links. And Yahoo even prefers them. True?
     
    tivnet, Sep 1, 2004 IP
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    #37
    Hi tivnet

    Yes, that is (sorta) true, but not so much for the big one. Google, Yahoo, MSN spiders all crawl querystring variables, though from what I've seen they sometimes limit how many they will follow depending on what mood they are in.

    In PHP it's called a mod rewrite to replace special querysting variable indicators with slashes.

    To do it in Windows (what I'm hosting on) requires a server side component.

    SUMWD is built so each catageory/sub-category/link is only one querystring variable away, so I don't think it will have any problems getting spidered.

    Next time you search on any of the Big 3, check the results and you will see pages with querystring variables in them.

    Now whether or noth that affect how the page ranks compared to pages that don't haev qs variables, I don't know.
     
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  18. tivnet

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    #38
    Just a tech. note:

    mod_rewrite is an Apache module, which has nothing to do with PHP. Pure PHP implementation involves parsing the PATH_INFO server variable.

    It is quite strange that robots crawl dynamic pages these days. I saw pages with queries like ?cart-id=1234566
    or ?session-id=qweqwqweqw - they all do not make any sense if you come directly from search engine...
     
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    Ahh, I'm not a PHP guy, but I hear them bragging about mod_rewrite.

    I'd heard Google has a bias against any qs variable that has 'id' in it.....
     
    iShopHQ, Sep 1, 2004 IP
  20. tivnet

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    #40
    Strange that "they" brag about something that was born much earlier than (modern) PHP. Perl guys could, but they normally too old to brag :)

    Anyway, mod_rewrite is one of the best things Apache server has. For SEO, the most important feature of it is the ability to redirect robot (and browser) from one URL to another, with code 301 (Moved permanently).
    I noticed that Slurp (Yahoo/Inktomi robot) follows the 301 redirect immediately and reads the new page. What does it do with it - that's another question. It's a weird robot. I saw it coming to a site every other day, trying to read non-existing pages (code 404) - then coming back, and doing it again and again...

    Strange world. Yahoo has FAST engine (IMO a real competition to Google) - but uses ugly Inktomi robot.

    Google bought About.com - but still uses corrupted DMOZ.

    Sorry, went off-topic...
     
    tivnet, Sep 1, 2004 IP
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