Directory Owners Forum - Blogs http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php en Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:32:50 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.directory-owners.com/images/bullet/misc/rss.jpg Directory Owners Forum - Blogs http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php To all the new folks here on Directory-Owners.com http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=5 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:37:18 GMT Over the last few weeks I have seen lots of new but familiar folks signing up here and actually participating and sharing in some rather controversial topics.

I am very pleased to see All of you and know that there are many others out there whom share the same principles about the Directory industry current state of affairs and the future.

For the other folks whom have been sitting on the sidelines listening/reading or to the folks just joining for the first time and reading some of the recent topics.....trust me when I say...we aren't being negative. We are simply trying to rectify and clear up the industry that has been overwhelmed with cheaters, scammers, and otherwise crooked individuals and their followers.

These folks typically call the rest of us with some common sense and business acumen..and I quote here ("retard, dumba$$, stupid, liars, babies") and the list goes on.

To you I say...make your own mind up between what the crooks want you to think and believe and what the rest of us are saying and practicing.

tom ]]> TC http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=5 Thank You to those with some common sense! http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=4 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:19:39 GMT I just wanted to post a short piece here and say THANKS to those of you whom have complimented, supported and/or other wise shown your similar thoughts on the recent directory debates/arguments etc. both here at Directory-Owners and over on DigitalPoint.

I try not to go off the deepend or preach to much except when I feel strongly about a situation. I tend to setback and observe more than anything else. Being the owner of this forum, I have to pick my battles carefully as I don't want to show prejudice or favortitism to any one side/one topic or one person. This makes it hard sometimes to keep from offending at least someone.

If I have offended anyone, and I know I have for a few of you...don't take it personally. It is not a personal attack on you or your opinion.

For those whom have left me (wildweb) Green Rep. over on DP...thanks again and I do appreciate your support. I understand many of you whom do so do not always post publicly how you feel and that's OK too. There are some of us running around whom aren't scared of the gangsters that run amuck.

I do wish everyone the best with their individual directories, projects, sites and life in general.

Tomorrow is always another day.

tom ]]> TC http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=4 SEO Addons for FireFox - Cool Stuff http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=3 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:52:12 GMT Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *Save As Image 1.044* Adds the ability to save a page, frame, or part of either as an image. Useful for showing people bugs in a website, creating a snapshot of design progress, or perhaps even creating a gallery of websites. This extension can’t capture flash/shockwave content. Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *SEOpen 0.8* Current SEOpen features are all accessed through right-clicking an open area on a web page or by using the new toolbar; they include: Yahoo Backlinks, Pages in Yahoo Index, Google Backlinks, Google Cache, Pages in Google index, Google Translate to English, Google Related, PageRank Check, MSN Backlinks, Pages in MSN Index, Alexa Overview, Alexa Traffic, Alexa , related Alexa Backlinks, “Mass Check” multiple sources at once, Check DMOZ Inclusion, Keyword Density, Page Size Checker, HTML Validator, Server Header Viewer. Wayback Machine, Check robots.txt, Whois Info Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *SearchStatus* For every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *SEO for Firefox* This tool is unique in that it shows SEO data points right in the SERPs! That is very, very cool. Here is a list of what it gathers: Google PageRank, Yahoo! linkdomain, Yahoo! .edu linkdomain, Yahoo! .edu link, Yahoo! .gov linkdomain, Yahoo! link, del.icio.us bookmarks, Technorati Links, Alexa rank, Google Pages indexed, Cached Page, dmoz link, Bloglines subscriber, Yahoo ditrectory Listing, WhoIs Data. It also places extra links at the top of the SERP for the following: Google Trends, SEO Book Keyword Research Tool, Overture View Bid, Google Traffic Estimator, Google Keyword Sandbox. Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *The Rankquest SEO Toolbar* The Rankquest SEO Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations. Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *LinkChecker 0.6.1* Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today. Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif *X-Ray 0.8.1* When applied to a page it can help you see how the document was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser. Is that list made of li, dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or just some bolded text? X-Ray shows you what’s beneath the surface of the page Image: http://www.directory-owners.com/images/install.gif ]]> Here are some of the best SEO Fire Fox Extension suggested by most SEOz. If you know any more of those extensions that you think can do some real help in optimization process of a site suggest it via comments and ill add it in the list.

Firebug 1.05
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.


Save As Image 1.044
Adds the ability to save a page, frame, or part of either as an image. Useful for showing people bugs in a website, creating a snapshot of design progress, or perhaps even creating a gallery of websites. This extension can’t capture flash/shockwave content.


SEOpen 0.8
Current SEOpen features are all accessed through right-clicking an open area on a web page or by using the new toolbar; they include: Yahoo Backlinks, Pages in Yahoo Index, Google Backlinks, Google Cache, Pages in Google index, Google Translate to English, Google Related, PageRank Check, MSN Backlinks, Pages in MSN Index, Alexa Overview, Alexa Traffic, Alexa , related Alexa Backlinks, “Mass Check” multiple sources at once, Check DMOZ Inclusion, Keyword Density, Page Size Checker, HTML Validator, Server Header Viewer. Wayback Machine, Check robots.txt, Whois Info


SearchStatus
For every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.


SEO for Firefox
This tool is unique in that it shows SEO data points right in the SERPs! That is very, very cool. Here is a list of what it gathers:


Google PageRank, Yahoo! linkdomain, Yahoo! .edu linkdomain, Yahoo! .edu link, Yahoo! .gov linkdomain, Yahoo! link, del.icio.us bookmarks, Technorati Links, Alexa rank, Google Pages indexed, Cached Page, dmoz link, Bloglines subscriber, Yahoo ditrectory Listing, WhoIs Data.


It also places extra links at the top of the SERP for the following:


Google Trends, SEO Book Keyword Research Tool, Overture View Bid, Google Traffic Estimator, Google Keyword Sandbox.


The Rankquest SEO Toolbar
The Rankquest SEO Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations.


LinkChecker 0.6.1
Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today.


X-Ray 0.8.1
When applied to a page it can help you see how the document was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser. Is that list made of li, dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or just some bolded text? X-Ray shows you what’s beneath the surface of the page
]]> TC http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=3 Are you Guilty of these? I bet you are! :) http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=2 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:26:17 GMT search engine, usually in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system. It is a form of search engine optimization. Search engines use a variety of algorithms to determine relevancy ranking. Some of these include determining whether the search term appears in the META keywords tag, others whether the search term appears in the body text or URL of a web page. Many search engines check for instances of spamdexing and will remove suspect pages from their indexes. Keyword stuffing This involves the calculated placement of keywords within a page to raise the keyword count, variety, and density of the page. Older versions of indexing programs simply counted how often a keyword appeared, and used that to determine relevance levels. Most modern search engines have the ability to analyze a page for keyword stuffing and determine whether the frequency is consistent with other sites created specifically to attract search engine traffic.]]> Spamdexing is any of various methods to manipulate the relevancy or prominence of resources indexed by a search engine, usually in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system. It is a form of search engine optimization. Search engines use a variety of algorithms to determine relevancy ranking. Some of these include determining whether the search term appears in the META keywords tag, others whether the search term appears in the body text or URL of a web page. Many search engines check for instances of spamdexing and will remove suspect pages from their indexes.

Keyword stuffing This involves the calculated placement of keywords within a page to raise the keyword count, variety, and density of the page. Older versions of indexing programs simply counted how often a keyword appeared, and used that to determine relevance levels. Most modern search engines have the ability to analyze a page for keyword stuffing and determine whether the frequency is consistent with other sites created specifically to attract search engine traffic. ]]> TC http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=2 Referer Spamming http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=1 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:14:11 GMT referer spam - Google Search* *tom*]]> Folks,

I have noticed quite a few directories starting to use different mods for referal stats. Essentially these mods are used to show referring sites. Some directories have chosen to place these referral mods on their front page of the directory.

DON'T DO IT!

Why you ask?

Here's a similar "spam" that a lot of you are victims of and probably haven't noticed....

I'm sure a lot of you have encountered the sleezy link submitter whom will submit a site (either paid or free listing) to your site. Nearly all directories have a "Top Listings" or "Most Popular Listings/Sites" page as well, some where on the directory. As a general rule of thumb, this Top Listing page typically has a higher page rank than other pages within the directory. Thus, those sleezy link submitters will use proxies etc. to click on their own link within your directory and raise their hit stats so their own link appears on your higher ranked Top Listing page. One of the most popular sleez bag site owners I have seen on several sites (including a few of my own) is:
Code:
ludlow-selfcatering.co.uk
I have actually suspended this jerkoff's links on my sites for his false hit scheme.

So now for the main topic of the post: Referal Spam and placing the Referral Mod on your directory homepage....

Definition of referer spam: The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referer url that points to the site the spammer wishes to advertise. Sites that publicize their access logs, including referer statistics, will then end up linking to the spammer's site, which will in turn be indexed by the search engines as they crawl the access logs.

This benefits the spammer because of the free link, and also gives the spammer's site improved search engine placement due to link-counting algorithms that search engines use.
Some web sites receive so many referer spam hits that they amount to a denial of service attack on the server because there are not enough resources left on the server to handle legitimate traffic.

If your still having problems understanding what the hell I'm talking about or understanding how a referral mod on your homepage is dangerous. Here's the nut of the issue: Lets say you use the referral mod and have it on your homepage or any public page for that matter. If I access your site, the referral mod is going to show my visit to your page/site and the page I came from. So if I wanted to get www.somespam******site.com to show up on your page, I just go from the spam site to your site and BAM!...my spam site is being advertised by YOU for FREE on a potentially high PR page. It will be crawled and indexed by the SE's all for free and at your expense.

That is why I CAUTION you to NOT use a referral mod.

For more info. just do a search here: referer spam - Google Search

tom ]]> TC http://www.directory-owners.com/blog.php?b=1