Directory Reviews Updated and Much More

It's been a busy week of playing catch up since I returned from the Search Engine Workshop in Las Vegas. I'm going to write more on my workshop experience later, but I have to tell you that it was incredible!

I finally gave up waiting on the Google datacenters to all agree after the 02/18/06 PageRank export, so I went ahead and updated my reviews on my Free Directories and the Paid Directories, to reflect the PR changes. I also updated a lot of other information in the reviews.

My reviewed directories fared pretty well in this last PR export. Here are the results:

Free Directory Listings:

• 17 Free Directories increased in PageRank
• 8 Free Directories decreased in PageRank
• 2 Free Directories got booted to Duds (Add Link Directory and San24!)
• Of the Duds, 2 increased PR and 2 decreased (Duds aren't included in the first two stats above)

Paid Directory Listings:

• 2 Paid Directories increased in PageRank
• 6 Paid Directories decreased in PageRank

There are currently 97 Free Directories (including 17 in Duds) and 17 Paid Directories reviewed for a total of 114.

I was happy to see that several of the new PR0 directories, I have added lately, fared well in this PR export. I goes to show that getting a free listing when a directory is new can be a good investment of your time for the future. I still need to update the back links and double check to make sure that none of the free ones have switched to paid recently.

SEO Friendly List Updated:

Dan has updated his great SEO Friendly List again on 03/29/06 and boy do I appreciate all the work he puts into these updates. His list is much bigger than my reviewed list, so it's all the more work for him. Thanks Dan!!

I'm getting interviewed on eMarketing Talk Show:

I am doing an interview about Free and Paid Directories on eMarketing Talk Show this coming Friday, April 7, 2006 at 4:00 PM PDT, 7:00 PM EDT, and Midnight UK (BST). Tune in and listen to what I have to say. If you miss it, it's available as a podcast after the show. Thanks to Cindy Turrietta for inviting me on the show.

That's it for now. I have to get some client work done, but as always, I really appreciate any feedback you have to offer (especially if a reviewed directory changes their submission policies).

martin