Yahoo Directory, ODP). An unstructured citation is more of a casual mention of your business' NAP that appears anywhere that's not an official directory provider, for example, a blog, social media profile, newspaper (online/print) etc.
Participate in the major directories: Yahoo Directory, DMOZ, Best of the Web, and Business.com. If you are currently adding article directory links, then stop the program right away. If you find yourself with 10 or more directory links, something...
This is more of a hope than a prediction, but my hope is that all people recognize what is and isn't a truly viable and useful directory versus someone's attempt to capitalize on the link seeking frenzy.
Large Directory Sites Specifically, Google+ Local, Bing Local, and Yahoo Local should all be ground zero for any local search marketing effort. Tip: Claim your business listings, clean up duplicates, and fill out as much information as possible on...
A full directory of directories is in the works and will return to this space in early 2013. From that point, until 2012, it seemed that every piece of news from Yahoo was bad news, until July 16 when the announcement came that they had snagged...
Directory Links Second Wave: A good directory listing like BOTW, more of the links listed for the First Wave. Yahoo Local This bears a great question: is there a template for starting from scratch, link-wise?
Many link builders will refer to being listed in the Yahoo Directory, which used to be one of those things that we all recommended. Y - Yahoo Yahoo Today, Bing provides the search results you see on Yahoo.
The Yahoo Marketing Dashboard has four components: search engine and directory listings; online reputation management; campaign tracking; and site traffic analysis. Yahoo Small Business hopes to grow by offering small businesses an integrated...
The founders of Yahoo, Jerry Yang and Dave Filo, started it by creating “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” a directory of cool and useful sites. The sites that made it onto Yahoo! Google now sprinkles Google+ results into general...
FREE – Twellow: A directory of Twitter users to help you find people in related niches faster. FREE – Blekko: We were all sad when Yahoo! On top of that, every day I get requests from people to test or review new resources, think up ideas to build...
Only low quality links were generated (such comment, nofollow, and low quality directory links). Like many in the SEO community, the closing of Yahoo Site Explorer was a difficult pill to swallow. YSE was one of the most powerful tools in helping...
Getting listed in the Yahoo Directory can confer a tremendous advantage. Yahoo Japan is the most used search engine within Japan and, while that brand may be well known to Western Internet users, other names may not be so familiar.
Check whether competitors are operating a blog (and how they have this set up, whether it’s on a separate domain, subdomain or sub-directory). Namely, you want to check to see how many pages these websites have indexed in Google and Bing (I would...
Google's Directory, launched back in 2000 to compete with Yahoo, saw its final hour without any fanfare. The Google Directory The new home page simply tells people to head over to DMOZ, the open directory that Google pulled much of its content from.
The Google Directory project launched in 2000 to compete with Yahoo's equivalent. Google's Directory, a relic of eras past, has been removed – with essentially no fanfare. The Closure of Google Directory
Feel free to enhance this directory by adding your own suggestions in the comments. There are also tools available for Yahoo and Bing. The Internet is crammed with useful resources for online marketers, but it can be hard to know what you need and...
One great example would be Yahoo's directory which charges a $299 annual fee for inclusion. Paid links are taboo in the SEO world, and many, many link building companies will swear up and down, left and right, that they don't pay for links.
Fortunately somebody at Google has noticed and there’s a directory of the official Twitter, Facebook, blog and YouTube presences of the search giant in their press section. Google also have a number of YouTube channels introducing how to achieve...
You can run out and get a ccTLD, have a directory structure, or even a subdomain structure that has your webmaster tools allocating the spiders to the correct country's content. Remember, like Yahoo, many directories require payment.
A note about some tools I won't cover: tools that scrape SERPs for sites and automatically extract email addresses and send blast mass emails, tools that automate directory submission, "article marketing," and blog commenting, services that...
