Directory Critic - New stuff & announcements

I've got a few things I need to announce so here goes...

Numbers...

- Directory Critic now has over 2000 directories listed (2037)
- The number of webmaster ratings is over 1050
- 2500 websites are being tracked
- 400+ article directories are listed

New stuff...

Backlink and indexed checker. This tool shows you how many backlinks and indexed pages you have in the 3 major search engines.

List logs page. I wanted to show our users just how much work we do to the lists on a daily basis. At the moment I'm doing about 30-60 changes, additions and deletions every day. Everyone loves an up-to-date list

Promote your site...

I'm looking for articles written about directories, managaing directories, directory seo or anything directory related. Anyone who gets their article on the site will get a permanent linkback and should see some targetting traffic. if you're interested in submitting an article please contact me.

If you have a directory that I haven't got listed, please add it!

 

Cool. Congratulations to directory critic. I'm interested to write an article for you. I hope my articles will suits your taste. Will be pming you later today.

 

Do you have any suggested wordcount or other guidelines for this article? And where do you propose putting the link back, what sort of PR are we talking?

 

I would say prob about 750 words+. There will be a resource box at the bottom of your article for a few links, plus your name will be linked at the top of the article.

I don't know about actual PR or the article, the structure will be home>articles page>your article so it wont be more than 3 levels deep. I would expect about 3 to start with, possibly 4-5 in future.

Just a note, I am looking for directory related articles only (to suit the site). I do not want seo articles so please dont pm me with seo articles. Thanks.

 

Congratulations! That's great milestone.

One thing to suggest:
The directory list pages tend to load slowly, apparently due to database access for all those directory listings.

You may want to consider using some kinda caching to prevent frequent database access, or breaking up the list into multiple pages, so that page loading will not suffer slowdown as the list gets larger.

Cheers,

 

Thanks Romow

I have noticed page times getting slower as the list grow (esp the paid list). I am going to look into caching to combat this problem.