One of the most important sites of the web’s first era is about to go offline. Here’s a better suggestion. I happen to remember the very first thing I did on the World Wide Web. It was the fall of ...

Three software giants are set to launch a long-anticipated Web directory that will allow companies to find one another and conduct business online. Microsoft, IBM and Ariba, which built a test version ...

Online directories let people discover a scary amount of private information about you simply by entering your name, location, and/or telephone number in their search boxes. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

New directories are a valuable tool for Web sites that need that extra boost in search engine ranking or in their number of visitors. They make for a great way to increase Web exposure and expand your ...

Ben Pfeiffer is the President and CEO of Rank Smart Search Marketing, an organic search engine optimization and marketing firm. He is an industry veteran, writer, and speaker with over 12 years ...

Last night a post from the DMOZ blog titled R-E-S-P-E-C-T for DMOZ caught my eye. As I read through it, I felt for the old Open Directory Project (aka dmoz.org). Let me just quote the first line: ...

For years on SEJ we’ve been a proponent of listing sites web directories as a form of traditional organic link building. And over these years many web directories have come and gone. As linking gets ...

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who launched a business web directory in the Netherlands complaining his ranking is really poor. As you know, less than a year ago, Google began removing ...