Tag: Volunteers
DMOZ – Is it Still Worth the Submission Time?
Posted on Jul.05, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
DMOZ is known all over the internet as being the largest open source directory online, but is it really worth your time and effort to try to get your website listed in their directory?
You must remember when submitting your website to DMOZ that this directory is one of the human powered directories which means that a person must go over your submission, your website, and determine if your website is worthy of being in the directory from their own standpoint [...]
Getting Listed in the ODP, Google Directory
Posted on Jun.06, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
First of all, the Google directory is really just the open directory project (ODP: url here) with a few adjustments. While listings on DMOZ.org are arranged within their category according to simple alphabetic order, listings in the Google Directory are based upon PageRank [link]. Thus, sites with higher PageRanks will show up higher on the list of sites under any given category. You can see the PageRank of a site pictorially by looking at the little green bar off to [...]
Growing Your Meetings In CyberSpace
Posted on Jan.17, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
As increasing numbers of people search for information on the Internet, it becomes more imperative to have a compelling Website to promote and support your meetings.
Here is my list of “The Seven Most Important Things You can do Online”:
1. Identify all your Online Markets
It’s a common mistake to focus your attention on the obvious target audience for your meetings site – the potential attendees.
But many other types of visitor may find your site, and it’s important to consider whether they’re [...]
Why Search Engines Purging ODP Clone Websites
Posted on Dec.18, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
There are lot of websites which are fully or partially clone of
ODP (Open Directory Project).These websites or part section of
websites, which are using ODP script to reformat the data on
there site are useless and they have no original new contents.
It is learnt that search engine specially Google is purging or
banning such kind of sites. Why search engines are against Dmoz
clone sites? Is the data in them not worthwhile or are they been
misused by site owner’s? We will try to find [...]
Why Search Engines Purging ODP Clone Websites
Posted on Nov.20, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
There are lot of websites which are fully or partially clone of
ODP (Open Directory Project).These websites or part section of
websites, which are using ODP script to reformat the data on
there site are useless and they have no original new contents.
It is learnt that search engine specially Google is purging or
banning such kind of sites. Why search engines are against Dmoz
clone sites? Is the data in them not worthwhile or are they been
misused by site owner’s? We will try to find [...]
The Bottom Of The Food Chain
Posted on Oct.22, 2008, under Web Hosting No Comments
I have nothing against a company trying to make an honest dollar
in exchange for a useful service. After all, that is why
companies are in existence.
Those internet companies which provided free services and based
their existence on supporting those services with advertising
are having a tough time right now. The advertising model is
based upon network television’s success at providing free
programming in exchange for the viewing of advertisements.
The most significant issue with this model (on both television
and the internet) is the fact that [...]
