New Directories Reviewed and SEO Friendly List Updated

Just a few quick updates:

I reviewed 5 new free directories for my Free Directory Listing Reviews. More to come soon.

Dan has just updated his SEO Friendly List again (atta boy Dan!). 90 new general directories and 19 niche directories are added.

Also, Dan has merged with SEO Garage, to form a directory submission service under the info.vilesilencer banner. He now offers a few different options for affordable directory submission to free directories on his great list. I have contracted with him to submit a client's new site. So far, I am very pleased with the results and his professionalism.

Bob Mutch of seocompany.ca (one of the resources I use to develop my reviews) has just built an interesting "inbound link quality" tool and has a FireFox extension with the same functionality, too. I haven't had time to really test out his underlying methodology, but it seems like another useful metric in trying to find quality directories and sites.

That's it for now. As always, I like to hear from you!

martin

Free Directory Reviews Updated

I just reviewed all the Free Web Directories' review information and updated most of it. I still have a few things to spot check, but all in all, everything is pretty much up to date. I have moved 3 directories to the paid directories area and 3 to duds. I also added 2 new free directories.

I will try to add several more free directories in the coming week.

martin

Directory Reviews Updated Again

I'm running out of unique titles for these update posts!! ;-)

Happy Mother's Day!

I finally got around to updating my Directory Reviews to reflect the 04/04/06 Google PageRank export (update). The changes weren't as great this time, since I did the previous update late (on 04/01 - 03/06). I suspect I got some of the 04/04/06 updates in the previous one. Oh well, this Toolbar PageRank info is at least 3 - 6 months anyway...so no biggie!

Here's the stats for this time:

Free Directory Listings:

• 2 Free Directories increased in PageRank
• 4 Free Directories decreased in PageRank
• 1 Free Directory got booted to Duds (Active Directory)
• 1 Free Directory returned from Duds (Geeks on Steriods)
• Of the Duds, 5 increased PR and 1 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 now 90 Free Directories (including 17 duds), plus 18 paid directories. I took a few directories out recently and forgot to document them properly.

I'm trying to find the time with Aerik, my great programming partner, to get these directory submission reviews cleaned up and automated a bit, but client work does pay the bills, so that comes first (the old plumber and the leaky faucet bit comes to mind...).

I still need to incorporate the lasted data from Dan's recent update of his SEO Friendly List and find some new directories to review.

Thanks for being patient and loyal visitors.

martin

SEO Friendly List Updates

Sorry I haven't been updating my free web directories reviews much lately. I 've had just too much client work (that's a pleasant problem), but I will work on them this weekend.

In the meantime, the ever diligent Dan, creator of the original SEO Friendly List, released another update on April 29th. I can't praise and thank Dan and his folks enough for their continuing efforts to keep their lists up to date. It is a lot of work! ;-) He is changing to monthly updates, since there is just too many changes to compile on a bi-weekly basis.

Google Updates?

I don't usually report on Google fluctuations here, since that information is available in many other places, but there appears to be some more "Post Big Daddy" changes under way right now. One of the common reports are loss of previously indexed pages. I have seen this with a few clients and on my site also. I just lost about 75% of my indexed pages.... more on that later.

martin