Directories
Can Your Site Rank Well in All Four Major Search Engines?
One of the most frequent concerns when it comes to SEO is whether or not your website is optimized to meet the needs of each of the four major search engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com all rank things differently, but not so differently that you have to dedicate specific SEO to each of them. The differences in how these search engines work can cause a bit of confusion, especially when it comes to optimizing well for all four of them at the same time.
Unique Article Wizard - A Honest Review
It sounds amazing, doesn’t it? The concept of spinning one article by combining paragraphs from two other articles written to match up content wise, into several thousand “unique” articles. The sales page for Unique Article Wizard swears up and down that search engines won’t find this content to be duplicate entries, and that you’ll receive hundreds to thousands of links from the “article” directories that it will submit to. Sadly, it really is too good to be true.
Google is fighting back against directories
Ok, I did a little search today for one of the most well-promoted and developed directories that is not Dmoz, Alive Directory. Here are the results that I found. This is not good for directories, especially when they are devaluing all the top quality directories out there. Google came out not too long ago talking about how paid links are not good and they will start to penalize anyone that partakes in what most people call advertising, but what google calls as manipulation of their system. All the webmasters started to think that they were not going to do anything and that it was just all talk. Well, it looks like they have started to fight back against directories paying for advertising on other directories and similar websites.
The Frustrations of DMOZ
I am sure that we have all been there……trying to get your website listed in DMOZ. This seems to be the topic of conversation on many of the top webmaster forums. A lot of new comers are trying to get their site listed on DMOZ because they think that it will be a huge traffic boost and their troubles will be over. Well, if you haven’t already noticed, getting your site listed in DMOZ is no easy task! I submitted a site about a year and a half ago, and it has finally been accepted into DMOZ. It was a good feeling that I finally got accepted into the infamous directory, but then I realized that it is really not what it used to be anymore. DMOZ lost its luster when it started banning editors and taking massive bribes for site inclusion (if you are a new webmaster, I bet you didn’t know that you can pay off editors to get included faster)! There are some nice editors, but most are very rude and will not respond to any form of contact.
