http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news Get all the latest info from web directory industry Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:53:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of many ways to get a website included in the search engines is to submit it to web directories. Directory submission has been around for long time and it’s still effective to date as long as you do it right. The process of directory submission has not changed much ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/web-directory-submission-tips-for-beginners/ These days many webmasters and wannabe web marketers - specially inexperienced ones are confused about the usefulness web directories! The other day I was browsing on a popular webmaster forums ( digitalpoint forums  ) and found a so-called web marketer opening a thread regarding how he submitted a client's site ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/how-to-best-use-web-directories-for-your-benefit/ As far as I remember Google took unprecedented action against web directories by penalizing them en mass on first October - 2007. It was at the height of Google's war against paid links that passed ranking juice to other sites. It is to be noted that human edited web directories existed ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/google-has-learnt-to-live-with-web-directories/ As the title of the post says – “Is the directory industry dead?” Many webmasters think so. But I don’t go along with them – not because I am a directory owner – but because their views are simply immature. Going around webmasters forums and finding discussions on how web ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/are-web-directories-dead/ The first question that comes to mind after reading the title is - "Does Google still consider directory links as quality?" I would like to say that - "YES" , it still does if the directory is old, its PR is not inflated by way of buying links, it has appropriate category ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/building-links-with-quality-directories/ In my view I have neglected this directory for long in terms of promotion or advertisement. As a result it has an embarrasingly low rate of submission and hence there are too few listing on this directory for a 9 months old site. It seems I have finally woken up that ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/50-review-fee-discount-started-on-this-directory/ Of late, Google has been cracking down on paid links - i.e. penalizing sites selling or buying links. Matt Cutts, head of Google's anti-web spam team says, due to buying and selling of links based on Page Rank , webmasters and SEO/SEM experts are manipulating search results by putting low ... http://www.netcatalogue.org/web-directory-news/are-web-directories-becoming-irrelevent-in-seo-world/