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Web Directories need no introduction, however, its recent offshoot, bid for position or bid for placement web directories are so new that, they need to be introduced.
Bid for Position directories evolved from web directory customers desire to be listed in first position on web directories and sometime on the homepage of a directory.
This desire was meet when some clever webmaster created hybrid web directory, which allows customers to place link as high as they like on the listing pages or even the homepage of a bid for position directory. The position of a listing is determined by how much money you are willing to pay for your listing, the more you pay the higher your site is listed.
Because Bid directories are still growing and evolving, script for creating bid directories are just getting on the market. This article examines once of the few bid for position directory script currently on the market; Link Bid Script or LBS for short.
In 2006 when bid for position website first emerged on the directory scene, the team behind Haabaa Web Directory developed link Bid Script, originally to power A Pound a link directory, this meet with some success, which was then extended to creating Link Bid Script as a stand a long bidding directory script.
Link Bid Script was created using PHP scripting language, with popular open source database, MySQL as the back end. This makes the LBS a light but fast script to install and use.
One of the features that that distinguished Link Bid Script from other PHP based bidding directory script is that it combined the classic link bid script alphabetic listing with web directory style category listing, giving directory owner and directory users the best of both worlds.
The alphabetic listing make search by alphabets easy and the web directory style categories makes links listed on the bid for position directory more search engine friend.
To get more information about link bid script at its website Link Bid Script, support for LBS can be accessed at Link Bid Script support.
Blog post by Temi Odurinde
Respected owner of Haabaa premium webdirectory and the A Pound a Link Bid for Position directory.
I think we all agree that we live the era of the off page factors and the keyword density is already the part of the past. The relevance and the importance mostly determined by backlinks. If we want to achieve nice rankings we need to go for relevant backlinks. Many of us can’t afford the paid directory submissions and constanly look for free links. This post is dedicated to them.
Some month ago one of my friends Jumpenjuhosaphat published a blog post about a SEO study which threw light on the factors which determine the positive effect of the backlinks. Beside the quality (PageRank), the relevance and the keyword density in the title tag of the referrer page are the most important aspects.
How can we get relevant backlinks for free? Why not use google itself? I think about the excellent search operators such as inurl, intitle and inanchor in the following form:
After checking the returned results you may want to substitute the intitle operator with inurl and inanchor as well.
Remember that finding relevant free links is not an easy thing, but i hope you agree that it worths a try.
Thank you,
Bagi Zoltán
For directory engine I use the free IndexScript. Finally, after many code hacking I really like it. About two weeks ago my site was completely reindexed because I changed the underlines to hypens in the URL stucture.
Many of you may think that a compound separated with underlines will be recognised by search engines. They won’t.
Before my last intervention the URL of my seo forum category was
http://www.directoryofseolinks.com/1/seo_forums/
and when I requested a searching query for the “seo forums” phrase using the allinurl: operator Google didn’t display any result. Now, using hypens my category names in the URLs are recognisable by the robots. How did I do that? Just follow the next few steps and hypens will substitute underlines, and one more search engine factor will be straightened out.
Eliminating underlines
Before executing the following code changes make sure that you created backup files and the selected value of the “SEO URLs Scheme” option in the admin board is 2.
For hacking I suggest you to use notepad.
eregi_replace("[_]+", "_", str_replace(" ", "_", eregi_replace("[^_a-zA-Z0-9 ]", " ", $row['name']))) .eregi_replace("[-]+", "-", str_replace(" ", "-", eregi_replace("[^_a-zA-Z0-9 ]", " ", $row['name']))) .
with this one: Executing this hack the yourdomain.com/your-category/ wont be duplicated with the yourdomain.com/your-category/1/page.
Correcting the breadcrumb navigation link
After installing and adding a category into the directory we will see that in the breadcrumb above the listed websites, the index words points back to the main page referring to the /index.php file. This mistake will cause duplicated content and won’t make us very popular among search engines. So open the /include/utils.php file and substitute this code:a href=\"" . $dir_root_path . "index.php\">Index
with this onea href=\"/\">Index
Outbound links using the URL as anchor text?
Browsing among the categories you can see that the listed sites are linked not only with the suggested anchor text, but with their URL also. If I were I would correct this. Just open show_cat.php and latest.php files and substitute these codes:
a href=\"" . $row['url'] . "\" target=\"_blank\">" . $row['url'] . "
a href=\"" . $row['url'] . "\">" . $row['url'] . "
" . $row['url'] . "
Eliminating content duplaction at the listing pages
With your current SEO URLs Scheme you will see the navigation links at the bottom of the pages as First, Prev, Next and Last. I have a suggestion to make this links perfect in order to eliminate all the content duplication possibilities.
"/1/\">First ”;
if($page > 1) {
with this one:"/\">First ”;
if($page > 2) {
I hope you agree with me and think that your directory is much professional now! If you have any opinion let me know!
Love them or loath them, Web Directories are everywhere you look on the Internet today. They range in quality from terribly put together Web Directories ( giving Web Directories a bad name) that consist of all the default categories and skin shipped with the script used to create it, to high end Directories with creatively put together categories and sub categories to Directories created with bespoke code.
Given the fact that there are several billion documents on the net, the quantity of Web Directories online is not excessively large. Given the fact that the pages and sites on the Internet grow daily, systematic ways of finding relevant pages and websites quickly and with high accuracy will be welcomed by most internet users as a supplement to the fantastic job search engines are already doing, there is still room for some quality niche Web Directories.
Though no official figure exist on the approximate number of Web Directories on the Internet, but giving the number of Web Directories this author has come across in the last few years, there are probably over one hundred thousand Web Directories online, dozens of new ones are created daily. The huge growth in new Directories can be partially ascribed to the availability of cheap and even free Directory scripts such as PHPLD and eSyndicate and the mistaken assumption by young Webmasters that a Web Directory is a quick way to make money online, this leads to the large quantities of very poor Web Directories online today.
Despite the above assertion, there is room for quality web directories, especially high quality, well thought out specialist directories catering for niches that are not well covered by existing Directories. A few niche directories that went online recently included Ethical Directory, a directory for ethically produced items and services, Deeply Linked, a Directory that accesses just inside pages of websites (the reverse is usually the case with most web directories) and Ablize, a specialist disability directory. This demonstrates that there are still some segments of the Internet where a directory can be innovative and provide useful services, but the General Directory, a Directory that covers absolutely every topic under the sun is an over done genre, which almost all that have attempted it are unable to do very well.
So you want to start your own web directory
One of the questions that often dominate Webmaster communities when talking about starting or running a Web Directory is “How can I make my directory unique?” This is one of the most important questions that needs to be asked to running a successful Web Directory, however it should be asked differently and at a different time. The question best asked is “How can I build a unique web directory”, note that the question implies that you have not yet built a Web Directory; you are just thinking or planning to create one. It is far easier to plan and build a good quality Web Directory than to build a Web Directory and then think of how to make it unique.
To partially answer the aforementioned crucial question your need to ask yourself before you create a Web Directory, a list of other questions and checklist you could find useful follows:
Question to ask before you decide to create a Web Directory
The above questions are not exhaustive; there are other questions you can ask yourself to find out if the niche you are planning to venture into is the right segment of the market for you.
Once you have satisfy yourself that the niche is viable and growing then you should move on to planning your Web Directory stage, the list that follows contains questions that could guide you on your way to creating a successful Web Directory:
Questions you need to ask after deciding to create a Web Directory
I hope webmasters thinking of starting a new web directory or seeking to improve their existing directory find this short article useful. You can find more resources on how to improve your article or create a brilliant new web directory at good Webmaster Forums and blogs on the Internet. Good luck.
Article is written by Temi Odurinde
Temi Odurinde is the webmaster of UK SEO Forums.
Temi’s website www.temi.co.uk