The question is, how does an SEO or webmaster know which directories are quality and which are not. This gets more important when you are submitting to niche directories.
Here are just some points, off the top of my head, to look for when evaluating a directory.
- Age of directory
- Is the directory indexed
- Is your listing category in the directory indexed
- Number of links to the directory
- Domain age of directory
- Does directory require a link back
- PageRank of directory’s home page
- PageRank of the category of your listing in your directory
- Design of directory
- How large is the directory
Again, these are just the things that came to my mind as I wrote this post. If you have more to add, please do.
Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum.
Gab Goldberg summarized the story, saying:
Google AdWords ripped off this firm for $3200! When they restarted paused campaigns by clicking ‘resume all,’ Google also resumed deleted campaigns, with all adgroups and ads deleted too!
Several AdWords advertisers said they have seen this happen to them in the past. It just sounds like a major bug to me and I don’t see how this can go unnoticed for too long. As AdWords accounts age, some campaigns must be deleted. Often campaigns are paused for one reason or another and when they are unpaused, you can risk being charged for deleted campaigns as well.
This seems like a serious concern to me.
Forum discussion at Sphinn.
The first report came in on the 23rd, saying “I get the following error message: “error to use eval to parse history info json string!” But many other users are complaining as well. This is not only impacting iPhone users, but also G1 users and likely users of Google Mobile on any mobile device.
iPhone users can manually fix the issue by going to Settings, then Safari, and then click on Clear History, Clear Cache, Clear Cookies.
Googler, Bret, said:
Thanks for the feedback guys. We’re looking into this issue. I’ll post any updates I have to this thread.
Hopefully this gets resolved soon.
Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.
Ads by 47 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 67 6C 65
What does that mean? Well, if you use an Hex/ASCII converter and plug in 47:6F:6F:6F:6F:6F:6F:6F:67:6C:65 it translates it to “Gooooooogle.” As you see on many Google AdSense ads, they have a line that reads “Ads by Gooooooogle.”
The Inside AdSense blog officially announced the new Twitter account. So feel free to follow it on Twitter and while you are at it, follow @seroundtable and @rustybrick.
Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.
The standard. With Google’s console, you can upload sitemaps, check robots.txt files, check indexing errors, etc.
Yahoo Site Explorer lets you do all the things as Google. There’s also a $25 YSM credit link at the bottom of the account screen.
The Live Search webmaster center has a lot of fun tools that the others don’t have.
1997? - The first website I ever built was called The Downhill Scene. I was heavily into downhill mountain bike racing at the time so I learned HTML and made a really crude site. Compressed images, tables with borders, the works… I had no idea that monetizing a website even existed back then, but it was a fun site. I even had web 2.0 style user generated content with an HTML guestbook.
2001- I had an idea to write what is now known as an Ebook and sell it from a website. It was a 5 page PDF guide on how to secure your PC against spyware and viruses. I put the site up and waited around for traffic, and actually sold a few copies. I was an info product marketer without even knowing it. I even used Ebay auctions to sell it as well as drive traffic back the site to make sales there. I think that might have been against the rules.
2002 - I signed up for a weekly email from Dell computers that sent out coupon codes. I would take the coupon codes and buy notebook computers, usually at about 30% off, then sell them on Ebay. This actually worked for a while and I made about $100 profit on each computer. I would buy 10 or so at a time, store them, manage the auctions, deal with shipping, returns - it was a total nightmare. But I was pretty proud of myself to actually make money on my own.
2003 - This was a big breakthrough when I finally realized you didn’t actually have to have a product to make money online. So instead of managing all the headaches of the Ebay stuff I would try affiliate marketing. I made a website with the coupon codes then got in the Dell affiliate program. I even made a form on my site to collect email addresses to notify people when the codes were released. I pasted those email addresses manually into a spreadsheet and did the emailing manually as well in Outlook. I had no idea at the time, but I was a list building marketer! This was going pretty well, until Dell threatened to sue me for copyright infringement.
2005 - I learned about Adsense and started building all kinds of sites for that. Then I learned pay per click, tied it into affiliate marketing and the rest is history. I never really got serious about making my living online until 2005 , but after deciding thats what I wanted to do things really took off.
What crazy things did you try back in the day?
Ask for the link. Don’t demand it.
Offer people you link to something valuable in return. For example, wheel suggests that you say something along the lines of “I’ve got data your visitors may find interesting” or “Here’s a unique coupon code.”
Since these are email requests, though, can you be reported to Google for spamming someone else? There’s no answer to that — it depends on the recipient.
I should add from my experience that it’s unwise to ask big blogs for links. They might have a high PageRank and is extremely relevant for your purposes, but chances are, old posts won’t be updated. (And like I said in sentence #1, we get hundreds of link exchange emails a week. That said, most aren’t read anymore.)
Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.
Last year, I won this cool contest, but this year, well, I won’t tell you — I’ll wait for Matt to tell you himself 
You have till tomorrow evening to play, so be sure to sign up now!
Forum discussion continues at Sphinn.
Ask for the link. Don’t demand it.
Offer people you link to something valuable in return. For example, wheel suggests that you say something along the lines of “I’ve got data your visitors may find interesting” or “Here’s a unique coupon code.”
Since these are email requests, though, can you be reported to Google for spamming someone else? There’s no answer to that — it depends on the recipient.
I should add from my experience that it’s unwise to ask big blogs for links. They might have a high PageRank and is extremely relevant for your purposes, but chances are, old posts won’t be updated. (And like I said in sentence #1, we get hundreds of link exchange emails a week. That said, most aren’t read anymore.)
Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.
Last year, I won this cool contest, but this year, well, I won’t tell you — I’ll wait for Matt to tell you himself
You have till tomorrow evening to play, so be sure to sign up now!
Forum discussion continues at Sphinn.
