Social networking is becoming a great way to keep people in-the-know about your business (especially from a B2B angle), so we thought we would get involved in this great way to interact with our readerbase. Check out our business page by clicking on the image below:

The great advantages of being a part of our online presence on Facebook are to:

• Stay up-to-date with current events from WebProNews in your news feed!
• Connect with other Facebook users relating to WebProNews topics!
• Like/agree with a story on WebProNews? Make it known by clicking on the ‘like’ button/link associated with every news story on Facebook!
• Share WebProNews stories on your own profile!

If you are already involved with Facebook, feel free to become a fan by clicking on the “Become a Fan” link
that is located under “WebProNews Cotags” area. You can also:

• Suggest to Friends - Suggest our WebProNews Facebook Page to other people who do not know about this yet or may be interested in our site’s content.
• Subscribe via SMS - Get our WebProNews Facebook Page on-the-go on your mobile/cellular device.

Have any questions regarding our WebProNews Facebook Page? Please feel free to contact me via our directory’s contact form, and I would be glad to answer any questions that you may have. Also, be on the look out for future directory updates there as well!

Happy Surfing!

Answering this question, Cutts concluded that this will not impact rankings or domain trust/authority. With this being said, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Software category within the WebProNews eBusiness Directory to you. This category has various tiers for
your B2B software needs, such as:

• Accounting Software - Browse this selection of resources for software to suit your accounting needs.
• Ad-Serving Software - Programs such as AdJuggler, designed to allow you to serve ads on your website(s).
• Content Management Software - Content management systems like Drupal, Wordpress, and many more.
• CRM (Customer Resource Management) Software - Find all the right tools you need to manage your customer relationships.
• eBooks - Category dedicated to online/digital books.


…and many other B2B software-related categories.

If you have a software product or software-related site, I would encourage you to consider submitting it to our quality directory. All that you have to do is to use our directory’s quick-and-easy submission form. Just enter the URL of your the site that you would like to submit to us, your e-mail address so that we can notify you of its visibility, and select the subcategory under Software that best suits your software. If you cannot find a category relating to the niche of your software, you can just select the Software category, and I will manually find a place for your software to be placed and included.

If you have any questions regarding our Software category or any other categories on directory, please do not hesitate to ask me via our contact form. I will promptly attend to any inquiry that you may have. You can also via the iEntry Directory Portal Forum under the Niche Categories section.

Happy Surfing!

Even though Bing is getting a lot of hype at the present, the WebProNews eBusiness Directory is still a great place for business-related searching, and here two great reasons why:

• Niche Categorization - To help better find what you are looking for, our directory is sorted into various categories and subcategories for better relevance. When you are searching for a business elsewhere, you most likely will have to sort through various pages of sites and information to find what you are really looking for. With our directory, you can find exactly what you are looking with the help of a few clicks within our categories.
• Human Edited - That’s right, the WebProNews eBusiness Directory is 100% edited by a staff member on the other end, which means that any submission that is sent to us is reviewed prior to inclusion in our directory. With this premise, junk/spam sites will not be published, but only quality business websites to help you and your business’ needs. If your business’ website listing needs to be updated, you may contact me via our directory’s contact form, and I will gladly act upon to your request. This is another reason a) why it’s better to go with a human-edited directory, and b) how the WebProNews eBusiness Directory can better the popularity and clientele of your business’ website.

If you have not visited the WebProNews eBusiness Directory in a while, I would like to invite you back and give it a try. We receive up to 80-100 submissions daily, and there is something in this directory for everyone. If you have any questions about our quality directory, please feel free to let me know.

Happy Submitting!

• Revise URL Before Submit - I have seen a few submissions recently where the URL of the site submitted has been misspelled or the domain suffix (e.g. .com, .net, etc.) was not included. For the best matching of your site URL with the site description of your business, please make sure that the URL that you submit to us is correctly entered in the ‘URL’ field of our directory’s submission form and contains everything needed to reach your business’ website.

  

• Is Your Site Live? - There has been a pattern of submissions lately where the URL submitted was either a landing page for the site’s domain or the page has an “Under Construction” message in place of their business’ website. From a business standpoint, if a user is browsing our directory looking for your business’ product, and your site reports that it is under construction and cannot find your product anywhere, most likely that person will move on to your competitor’s site and find what he or she needs there. This is why it is crucial to have your site up-and-running during the time of submission so users can benefit from your site and its products.
• Has Your Site Changed? - If your site has been listed within our directory for a long time, most likely your site listing will need updating since the demographic, products, and design of your site may have changed. If you would like the title and/or description of your site listing changed, I would be glad to help you with the procss. Just simply contact me via our directory’s contact form, or if you have an account on the iEntry Directory Portal Forum, I will help you there as well. Just simply specify the URL of your site listing, along with the title and/or description that you would like visible, and I will promptly update that information for you, along with providing a timely notification of this service rendered.

Your directory listing is important to us, and we want to help you keep your listing maintained and organized in order to help bring future customers to your business’ website through our quality service.

Happy Submitting!

The new WebProNews Video Blog has been divided up into two tiers:

• Featured Videos - These videos have been hand picked for relevance concerning current happenings in the eBusiness world. Any trending topics will be posted in this section.
• Recent Videos - This is an archive of videos that we have recently published and also ones we have published in the past. Looking for a video from a recent conference? This is the place to look!

The various topics and debates that our videos comprise are: Gaming, Paid Search, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media, and Web Design. Our video team gathers this content from conferences around the U.S., such as Ad Tech, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), and many more! If there is a conference relating to search engines and/or social media, you can be sure that our video team will be there, along with breaking, content-rich videos on the WebProNews Video Blog.

Have Twitter and want to keep up with updates of breaking videos from WPN? No problem! Just simply follow our WPN video account of @wpnvideos.

• Our Twitter Account. We know that many of our subscribers use Twitter to keep up-to-date with friends and other services around the web. With this premise, we have created an account just for this purpose. Every time a story breaks on WPN, it will automatically be tweeted to @webpronews.

  

• Our Facebook Page. Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friends and services and has been ever since it was a college-only service. Who knew that it would become such an integral part of services around the internet? With this in mind, I would like to bring your attention to the WebProNews Facebook Page. This is a great way to stay connected with WPN, along with fellow subscribers. If you are on Facebook, simply go up to the Search text box and type in “WebProNews” (without quotes), and our page will automatically appear for you. Feel free to become a fan of us as well!

  

• Our RSS Feed. If you keep up with information on your cellphone or BlackBerry, RSS feeds are the way to go. WPN’s RSS feed is always updated and can be accessed through http://feeds.feedburner.com/WebpronewsTopNewsRssFeed.

  

These are just a few ways that you can keep up-to-date with happenings on WebProNews. If there are any other ways that we can bring WPN to you, please let us know, and we will be glad to assist you.

Just recently, I have noticed a trend of eBook-related sites that have been submitted to our quality directory, and I thought I would create a category especially for these sites. With this premise, I am pleased to announce that eBooks has been added to our directory’s categories under Software > General Software.

This new category is dedicated to business’ websites that contain eBooks that users can purchase and/or download relating to eBusiness content. If you or your business have a website like this, please feel free to submit your website for free inclusion into our quality directory using our quick-and-easy submission form. All that you have to do is to enter in the URL of your eBook-related site, your e-mail address (for notification of the site being included), and select eBooks from the category drop-down menu.

If you have any questions regarding the eBooks category, or have any other questions regarding your site listing on our directory, please feel free to ask me on the iEntry Directory Portal Forum under the Niche Directories category. I would be glad to answer any questions that you may have.

Happy Submitting!

To show the pride of your submission(s) to our directory, we have provided an image (shown below) that you may display on your business’ website. Displaying this image is not mandatory, and choosing not to display the image will not jeopardize the inclusion nor status of your website into our quality directory. It is just a gift from us to you for you to display with your included directory listing. Linking back to our directory from this image is not mandatory as well.

Speaking of images to display on your site, Twellow (the Twitter Yellow Pages) also has some “stickers” that you can display on your site if you or your business are listed there. These stickers have been provided below and are also accessible from Twellow’s Sticker Page.

Happy Submitting!

Along with the various submissions that have been submitted lately, I have been noticing a trend of erroneous submissions, so I thought I would share some tips that would better your inclusion in our quality directory.

• Be eBusiness Specific - Try and keep your submissions as close to our directory’s categories as possible. I have been seeing some submissions about jewelry and fashion stores, and unfortunately our directory does not have any related categories specific to that niche and have to reject them. Please submit sites relating to eBusiness content or anything that is talked about on our parent site WebProNews. If your site is eBusiness related, and you do not see a category in our directory that would best fit your website, please feel free to contact me with your business’ category suggestion.
• Your Site is Live - I have been seeing submissions where the website is either under construction or a landing page. With this in mind, I am unable to successfully pinpoint the product and/or company that you want to advertise. This will also be frustrating to people browsing our directory and want to view your company and can find nothing there. This helps keep the WebProNews eBusiness Directory filled with quality site listings.
• No Shortened URLs - There have been several URLs submitted lately that have been shortened with a random URL generator, such as TinyURL.com or Bit.Ly that redirects the person viewing the website to a longer URL. From an SEO standpoint, this will not help the visiblity of your website in search engines and directories because of the hidden and permanent redirect; therefore, I am unable to accept these URLs. These types of URLs also do not look attractive in directory listings because the URL does not fully describe the company or the product advertised.
• Meta Description Tags - A while back, I mentioned the use of meta tags prior to the submission of your site to our directory. This helps me compile the description of your listing to help better describe your site within our directory.

If you have any questions regarding your directory listing, please feel free to contact me via our directory’s contact form, or if you have account on the iEntry Directory Portal Forum, I can be contacted there as well.

Happy Submitting!

The reason why I mention this is because I would bring your attention to the WebProNews eBusiness Directory’s Video Sharing Sites subcategory (found here) under the Social Media category. This category is dedicated to listing sites such as YouTube.com and Hulu.com.

If you are the owner of a video-sharing site and would like to have it indexed within our directory listings, please feel free to use our quick-and-easy submission form. All you have to do is to provide the URL of the video-sharing site that you would like listed with us, along with your e-mail address for notification, and your video-sharing site will be be submitted for pending inclusion into our directory listings.

Happy Surfing!