Let's stop with the bullcrap

i agree with bobby

 

Thought this thread was about stop with the bullcrap?

 

What's to red rep? You stated your opinion and now I'm stating mine.

As for personal prognostications, I think the usefulness of general directories is waning. They are primarily built on the PR fallacy rather than usefulness. I see the continued sell-off of both small and large, well-known directories as an indicator that site owners see diminishing returns from their time and investment. (Suppose I'll get a few of my own reds for that statement. )

Instead of all of these conversations about what directories are penalized, who did/said what to whom, and all the other crap that floats around here; we should be talking about how to strengthen our businesses and figure out new strategies to keep G happy and provide sites that have real value (not the mythical value associated with PR).

 

Not so sure about that. Its tough firstly finding sites to add your site to and secondly finding sites that are going to be around long enough to justify the cost of getting a review. Yes the market is changing but there will always be a demand for general directories despite the fact there wont be the lure of easy money any longer. That I see as a positive long term development that will open doors.

.....but what about the masses? Who is going to entertain and keep them happy? Neat post.

 

I may get myself a girlfriend, i know something has been missing from my life.

 

Why did I get a security warning when I clicked on your link?

 

Which of the links did you click on? none are mine in the sig.

 

Your blog one.

 

I checked it too and had no warning, i have 2 antivirus installed on my pc, all i can think of is you have a much tighter setup in place and its catching anything i may be missing.

I wasn't aware of anything before you mentioned, thanks, and il look into some better antivirus too.

 

I'm only using standard software, with a corperate version of an av package. It's windows that's giving me a download warning when I clicked on your link. Hope it helps.

 

Thanks The Pheonix, il definately look into it.

Ive just thought of something, im using firefox, i tried it in IE and got the same as you, a popup to download, i think i used to get that in the past when i visited a feed.

 

Pipes it doesn't do it in IE7 no popups or anything but then again I am also using vista

 

Ah the ever changing differences in browsers and OS's to be honest i dont think its anything bad, just if you click on a feed it trys to download, if you were to accept it.

Similarly in firefox, sometimes when i click to dowload a .rar, it will not let me select to save and stays on selection to open if you know what i mean, its no prob though.

It took me a while to make the switch from IE to firefox too but now i love firefox.

How is Vista? i hear so many complaints about it, but thats possibly because people are just getting used to it? or is it really giving probs?

 

erm, sorry to ask, but how do i get the recent blog link on my profile

 

Hi centime, you can do it from CP>Edit Options> Scroll down near bottom and you will see Blog XML Feed URL and you can place your feed url in there.

 

I use both IE7 and FF as far as vista to put it in a nutshell if I had to do over I would have kept my old pc with xp as vista is slow and a resource hog at the present time, but I think once they come out with the SP1 like they did with xp it will be better

 

Cool, its sounds a headache for most using it at the moment, as you say, when they release SP1 it will become more pleasant, im in no rush to buy a new computer yet so il be sticking with XP for now.

 

@Pipes

Thanks, now to write some articles

 

Your welcome

 

My pleasure, only helping as I see things.