A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

To prevent malicious and unwanted content from being inserted into web sites on our web servers, writing files in web-accessible locations on the web server is prohibited to all customer-provided ...

Google's John Mueller said that generally, web directories do not help with SEO or rankings. Google has said in the past that directories aren't the right way to build links to your site and then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday I covered a WebmasterWorld thread where SEOs were complaining that Google has been removing tons of free web directories from their index. I conducted some random tests and did notice some ...

An international business web directory allows business owners to advertise their company’s name, in a list with hundreds of other company names. It is compared to the yellow pages for the Internet.