It's not a bad idea but I see another problem not mentioned above. Siteexplorer usually shows first sites that are listed in the yahoo directory even if they have very little link strength.
Thanks, Interesting observation, how many sites you tested for this? And probably makes sense if you are listed at yahoo directory you have greater value for yahoo and probably for google also. Like I already said it’s a neutral point you can use any benchmark technique you like, for example the “directoryranking.com†search at google.
Thanks for the support hope other paid directories owners list the site, or let it submit for free, they will win exposure and traffic.
Site Approved! Do you prefer to have it Regular or Featured? I ask that to put all directories equivalent at the start.
Thanks for the support, if you only have 1 page no need to be featured, if the listing goes to page 2 then you should transform it on featured.
Oh, ok... It stays regular then. No need to feature it. Thx a lot. ** Let us know about the results, of course **
From yahoo backlink results 1º ask-dir.com/Directories 2º www.freewebindex.com/detail/link-674.html 3º www.arcadeforce.com/Developers-and-Publishers 4º www.graphicsdir.com/Directories 5º www.submitdotcom.com/Directories One idea I also had is to publish the number of hits I get from each directory so we can benchmark directory traffic also.
I have observed that for two of my heavily linked sites where I was seeing some really weird results coming up in the first page using siteexplorer. After checking all of these sites individually I noticed that they were all included in the yahoo directory.
I don’t use site explorer but the backlink command don’t know if changes something, I have seen several sites listed at Yahoo directory and the links of the directories go way down to 4 and 10 page.
Ranking Using Yahoo Backlink 1º ask-dir.com/Directories 2º www.freewebindex.com/Computers/Internet 3º www.thedirectoryzone.com/detail/link-293.html 4º www.arcadeforce.com/Developers-and-Publishers 5º www.graphicsdir.com/Directories 6º www.submitdotcom.com/Directories
I just found out something strange : http://ask-dir.com/Directories http://ask-dir.com/Directories/ Both go to the same page, but when using http://ask-dir.com/Directories (without last slash), the sub-category seems to be broken.
Hi, thanks for the info, but every thing working fine for me! The site is completely different no relation whatsoever even the IP is different, Ask as a private IP.
That strange, since when I use http://ask-dir.com/Directories then goto Submission-Services sub category, I got this wrong url : http://ask-dir.com/Submission-Services/ and get redirected to main page. But when using http://ask-dir.com/Directories/, I got the correct category : http://ask-dir.com/Directories/Submission-Services/. I've test it with FF and IE, and both produce the same problem.
Ranking using yahoo backlink 16 Nov 2006 1º ask-dir.com/Directories/ 2º www.graphicsdir.com/detail/link-895.html 3º www.freewebindex.com/detail/link-674.html 4º www.arcadeforce.com/Developers-and-Publishers/ 5º www.alivedirectory.com/Internet/Resources/
Ranking using Google search "directoryranking.com" 19 Nov 1º www.thedirectoryzone.com/Business-Finance/ 2º www.submitdotcom.com/Directories/ 3º www.redjuniper.com/directory/index.php?c=318&s=91 4º www.alivedirectory.com/Internet/Resources/?s=H&p=1 5º www.dirave.com/Misc/Web-Directories/?s=H 6º www.squidlink.com/Computers/Web_Directories/
Hurray! I'm happy to see that I rank high there. ( www.squidlink.com ) Let's see how my inner pages link building can hit that result. Thanks a lot for letting us know the results.
Ranking using yahoo backlinks 21 Nov 2006 1º www.ewebpages.org/detail/link-2823.html 2º ask-dir.com/Directories 3º www.graphicsdir.com/rss.php?c=20 4º www.submitdotcom.com/index.php?p=d 5º www.freewebindex.com/Computers/Internet