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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, Yahoo announced (via Tumblr, which it bought in 2013), that it would be scuttling a few of its enterprises to focus on “products that our users care most about and are aligned with our ...

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 ...

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 ...

Examples: biography, education, research, etc. Anything underneath the blue bar after the profile image and initial information. Adding missing profile pages. Department-specific sub-directory page ...