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PR7 link for $200

Not a bad price coming from a website that is “permanently linked from” techcrunch, mobilecrunch, and crunchgear. The website is http://www.crunchboard.com, for $200 you get a unique page url (mostly a php mod rewrite) with a do follow, a back link to your website (you can not choose keyword anchor), description text (up to 2000 […]

New Reviews Section

Spent time on the weekend revamp the directory to be more index friendly by adding a reviews section pertaining to submitted entries.

Real Estate Reviews
Sport Reviews
New York Reviews
Sorted by States

This provides more relevance to the users by allowing them to drill down further into what they are looking for. Time will tell if what they say […]

Easy Directory Ban

Any entries found with the following are automatically banned from this web directory.

… (don’t cheat in text character count)
*** (don’t cheat in text character count)
repeating text in entry
wrong category
more than one entry for domain
bad grammar (entries submitted by megrisoft is a top offender - lacking spaces after periods, commas, and ending sentences without periods)
foreign language
htm […]

Cron is available for GoDaddy shared hosting. Finally, better late than never (more like two years late). Cron allow your to schedule tasks to run at an allotted time, where it can be daily, weekly or as often as you like. All other hosting companies have cron as a standard feature, but GoDaddy has finally […]

DMOZ, a Directory Dinosaur

Everyone has heard of DMOZ as the open directory project but due to neglect and editorial abuse by the chosen few, it is merely in existence by name and people care less for it than ever, except the search engines still like it.

Pros:

It passes great pagerank
Everyone and their mom wants to get on

Cons:

Wait list an […]

The next wave of directories are the bid directories, innovated by KingoftheBill. Reprogrammed and sold to the masses at an affordable price at $24.95 by phpLinkBid. The current version can only handle alphabetical ordering, while the next release is slated and reprogrammed to the much requested categories instead of ABC ordering of listings.

How it works: […]

Directory Updated

Finally had a chance to update the web directory to a slightly more user friendly format. It looks very generic and easy to use. Simply navigate to the proper category and use the suggest link located on the left navigation column.

As always, the directory accepts instant approvals. Make sure to write good descriptions, minimum one […]

Upgrading to eSyndicat Pro 2.1

So far it has been a nightmare because the upgrade process for eSyndicat Pro 2.1 has not gone smoothly and in fact has screwed up all the administration screens. I am seeking out as much help as possible from the eSynidcat forums. I wished had more time to work on the upgrade, but my […]

Product placement in movies and television shows is a process where advertisers are solicited by show producers to promote their products indirectly or directly to consumers. In return the shows get funding and advertisers get additional product exposure to markets where they otherwise might not reach.

Aviva Directory is promoting a program called v7n Contextual Links […]

Not much happening in the world of directories. Kind of boring actually. Speaking of which, even this directory is getting kind of boring and needs an upgrade soon to the directory structure to include more categories.

Anyways, there are a bunch of copycat directories popping up under the extension .AR giving the copied directory owners a […]