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.

With this post I would like to draw attention on some brilliant WordPress plugins which could make your ranking easier concerning search engines.

Providing an xml sitemap will increase the visibility of your site in Google’s index. You don’t need to use online or desktop sitemap builder applications anymore, the google sitemap generator plugin will do the job instead of you.

A static sitemap page improves the PageRank flow among the inner pages and helps your visiors to navigate in your content.

The Category Tagging plugin has an excellent feature. It make the most relevant older posts display at the end of the new publications. Besides improving the PageRank flow it makes your visitors stay longer at your site by providing suitable content for their interest.

SEO can be seperated into two basic parts. The firsts is the onpage optimization and the second one is the link popularity increase. With the next two plugins you will be able to manage both much more succesfully:

• The seo title tag plugin let you customize your title tag all around your blog.
• Jim Westergren’s link to me textbox plugin displays a html code of a link points back to your posts in a textarea so your visitor can easily grab it and insert it into their pages if they like your thoughts. For live demo you need to scroll down a little and you will see what is it all about.

If you also have a favourite let me know!

Thank you,
Bagi Zoltán

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:

• intitle:keyword “add link free” keyword
• intitle:keyword “add site free” keyword
• intitle:keyword “add URL free” keyword
• intitle:keyword “add website free” keyword
• intitle:keyword “submit link free” keyword
• intitle:keyword “submit site free” keyword

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

My answer is don’t do that!

In my opinion submitting a webpage is the last appeal of a bitter webmaster. This isn’t the natural way to get recognised.

The spiders of the major search engines continuously crawl the content of the Internet across links. These connections among websites pass forward to different things, which are the most important seo factors, the relevance and the importance.

If I would link to your site using the “car rental” phrase as anchor text i would increase the relevance of your site for the mentioned expression and your site would share in the PageRank of my linking webpage.

Don’t waste your time with search engine submission. If you have serious plans concerning internet marketing, go for some backlinks and your site will start the competition with some relevance and importance as well.

If you have any opinion let me know!

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.

• 1. Step Open the index.php for editing and press control+H. Using the appearing input forms substitute this code:
  
  eregi_replace("[_]+", "_", str_replace(" ", "_", eregi_replace("[^_a-zA-Z0-9 ]", " ", $row['name']))) .
  
  with this one:
  
  eregi_replace("[-]+", "-", str_replace(" ", "-", eregi_replace("[^_a-zA-Z0-9 ]", " ", $row['name']))) .
  
  all around the file.




• 2. Step Carry out the same process with the /include/utils.php, site_map.php, site_map_xml.php files.




• 3. Step There is no 3. step, you are done!

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 one

a 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'] . "