Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Sep 23
The ’sandbox’ phenomenon is a mirage to a large number of web users. Does it really exist or not? Some webmasters are of the opinion that the page ranking of a website is decided by a set of mathematical algorithm and that it cannot be altered by an individual policy such as sandbox.
What is Sandbox?
Sandbox refers to a temporary cache in the search engine where the domains of the recently registered websites are saved. These domains do not show up in the search engine page result until a time is deemed when the search engines think that they can commence the ranking. It is the time when the websites picks up their ranking by using other methods such as external linking or any advertisement methods. This process of restricting the new websites from search engine pages is accepted in order to avoid the sudden ‘jump’ of the newer websites in the SERP. Usually the websites are kept within the sandbox for two to three months. However there are instances of not showing the websites for more than eight months.
The sandbox feature now explains the reason for your 0 page rank in the initial days of your website irrespective of its procurement of many reciprocal links. It is commonly noticed by the website owners that the page ranking starts from the lowest, almost nil, to a sudden 7 or 8 within a period of three months.
The ’sandbox’ concept has been the most debated by the search engine experts. Some of them accepts the existence of sandbox in search engine and attribute it as the reason for the low page ranking of the newer websites whereas the others are of the opinion that the low page rank is caused because of the natural delay caused by the Google search engines to interpret the credibility of the website before assigning it a page rank.
Another shocking information is that a well-established link may also be put in the custody of sand box if it is identified as a link farm. Many websites that have collected hundreds of links in a brief period of time have realized that their page rank dropped to the lowest all of a sudden and remained there for almost a year or so.
Now comes the most important question. Is there any solution to come out of this choking sand box? In reality, nothing. The only thing you can do is to wait. The hope that your website will show up in one fine morning with flying colors makes your waiting more meaningful. Meanwhile you can concentrate on other popular strategies such as Adwords for popularizing your website. Adwords help your website procure quality links from other sites. It will also find a proper place in the search engine pages of AOL, AskJeeves, Netscape, etc. As it earns more visibility, Google will release the website from the sandbox.
Do not get discouraged by the ’sandbox effect’. Apart from Google, there are Yahoo! and MSN as popular search engines where you can get a decent page ranking from the beginning itself. Keep working on your website. Improve its quality and update the contents focusing on the user side. Do not waste your time worrying about the ‘non-existing’ (?) sandbox.
Sep 23
Article marketing is a relatively new means of achieving smooth traffic to a website in an indirect way. On the other hand, search engine marketing follows the straightforward approach of allowing the search engines to trap the websites based on certain criteria. Both search engine marketing and article marketing are found to be good practices for creating effective website traffic. However, there are a few shortcomings in each one.
Article Marketing - Pros
· You can build prospective one-way links to your website. Articles serve as a cause to direct potential visitors to a website. Anyone who is interested to read an article about a particular topic will find the links mentioned in it the most useful. Thus the articles help the website to invite more traffic towards it.
· The quality links contained in an article are search-engine friendly. They attract the search engine spiders mainly because of their attachment to the relevant content. Thus the page rank of your website increases with the help of these articles. There are article directories which host a collection of articles. Search engines easily catch the articles from these directories. It is, therefore, better to supply your articles to many article directories.
· Keyword-rich articles invite search engines towards them. However, the articles that contain excess keywords will be assumed as spam and will be ignored by them.
· Finally, articles help you to improve the reputation of your brand. Most of the users will find the articles useful to them before selecting a product. Therefore, by giving the relevant information to the customers through your articles, you gain more credibility from the customers.
Article submission has been found very effective because of their cost-effective nature. If you are able to identify the right content that describes your product or service and prepare the contents with the correct use of keywords, half of the job is done. As a next step, you will approach the article directories where you can post your articles free of cost, and they can be circulated to hundreds of other article directories after making necessary changes in the content in order to avoid duplication. In this way, articles help you to make your website content-rich in an indirect manner. Thus article marketing is cheaper than search engine marketing.
In order to achieve a proper SEO from the popular search engines such as Google or Yahoo! for your website, you have to invest a large amount of money for making your website SEO-friendly. If you wish to get better results from Search engine marketing, you have to accept many paid services such as the pay-per-click advertisements.
There are no many shortcomings for using article submission strategies for effective web marketing. However, we can say that article submission process is quite slow. It consumes a considerable amount of the author’s time. If they outsource the work, it would become quite expensive.
To conclude, we can say that article marketing is cheaper and effective if used wisely, but it gives slow results. Same is the case with organic search engine marketing. However, if you want immediate results, go for the paid search engine marketing services such as the pay-per-click advertisements.
Aug 21
Website designing in today’s terms demands a meticulously created content in it. The role of a website designer cannot be merely restricted to attracting viewers with animated graphics and luring phrases; it also demands the inclusion of critical components necessary for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
SEO-friendly websites should meet the following criteria.
Quality Content
The content includes the keyword/phrase, the text and the links. The keyword is the main component of the body of the website. The search engine spiders recognize the content of a website through these keywords. There should be a good number of keywords repeated in every page of your website. Care should be taken to include the keywords in the beginning of the paragraphs, especially in the first and last paragraphs.
Layout
A SEO-friendly website should have an appropriate layout to attract the search engines as well as the viewers. It is always better to keep all the navigation tools on the left hand side of the page, so that the search engine crawlers can segregate the inner contents and links from the navigation tools and identify them easily.
Sitemap
It is a good idea to include a sitemap or index for websites that have more than ten pages in it. Sitemap will guide the search engines appropriately to different segments of your website, even if it is crowed with contents.
Javascripts and Flash
Avoid using Javascript codes. These are not identified by the search engines. Similar is the case with Flash images. Try not to use them in your website. If they are very much necessary in your website, you may include them but don’t give those pages for search engine optimization. In situations where they have to be given for SEO, modify them by adding appropriate Meta tags and contents to them.
Frames and dynamic URLs
The search engine crawlers are hostile to frames and dynamic URLs. Avoid using them if possible in your website. However, in some websites, frames are found to be very essential. In such cases give them the ‘no frame’ tag in the frameset.
Tables
Just as the case with frames, tables also do not find much relevance in SEO. They are not recognized by the search engines. Why to create unnecessary blocks in your website if they are not helping the websites anyway?
Image
Everybody will accept the fact that images improve the quality of the website, except the SEO experts. Images not only delay the search process, but also pose as a hindrance to the effective traffic of the website. Moreover, a website with a lot of flash and other types of pictures and animations takes a long time to get downloaded, and so are likely to be ignored by the busy viewers. Add images only if they are very much essential and relevant to the contents of the website. In such cases, split the image into different sections and add keywords in them using alt tags appropriately. This will improve the SEO of your website.
To conclude, a website designing must be carried out in such a manner that it satisfies the demands of both the user and the search engine spiders. You cannot ignore either of them.
Aug 14
With the introduction of so many mods available for PHPLD, Eonte is glad to present a most comprehensive list of PHPLD directory mods currently available. Certainly not all mods can be listed here and these are what have been thought to be the more important mods to be used. However, we may also have left out some other mods and we welcome you to recommend omitted mods to us!
Details
- Detail Page Display with Pagerank
What this tool does is take all the link from the database and make a list of all of their detail pages sorted by pagerank. FREE.
- Show Category Path while approving sites
Now in phpLD approve section, all i have is which category the site is submitted to. This mod will allow administrator to know the whole path in the admin section in order to know exactly where the submission has been made.
- The Daily Listing
An innovative advertising box on your directory. Shows for every day of the week a listing of your directory. Contains a page for your customers to apply with PayPal integration and administration system. PAID.
- Cool Listing of the Day
Shows a listing of your directory for a day. The box shows 3 listings: yesterday, today and tomorrow. With integrated administration. PAID.
- PR Update Tool
A phpLinkDirectory modification that that allows update the page rank of all links in your link database. You can select as many or as few links you would like to update. You can also reset the tracking to update the links at any later date. FREE.
- Pagerank Stats Mod
Google Pagerank statistics for all links in your directory. Let browse links by Pagerank with pagination support. PAID.
- Link Popularity Mod
Shows number of Backlinks and Indexed pages in major search engines for each listing in directory. PAID.
- Most Popular Categories
Displays a linked list of the top 10 visited categories within your directory. The template can be customized to suit your directory and positioning of the top 10 list. The mod works with both rewrite enabled URL’s and normal URL’s as defined in your configuration. FREE.
Display
- Article of the Day
Allows you to display a “Article of the Day” on any of the pages you choose. The article is randomly selected from the database; with each day loading a new article. An example of this mod in action can be seen on our homepage. This mod is very straight-forward and easy to install, just download the zip file and follow the install.txt contained within. FREE.
- Category Related Links
WIth this mod on each Link Detail page you can display Top Related Links from same Category. You can define number of Related Links. PAID.
- Category Newsfeed
Display a newsfeed on any of your category or sub category pages. Each category or sub category can be configured to display different feeds from unique sources and you can decide how many news entries to display on a per category basis. The mod has been tested on a wide variety of newsfeeds including some of the popular feeds such as Yahoo, BBC, ABC News, etc. FREE.
- Homepage Newsfeed
Allows you to display a newsfeed on the homepage of your directory to increase the content. Tested on all of the popular feeds such as Yahoo, BBC, ABC News, etc. The mod is very straight forward to install and configure, you can use any feed you wish and decide how many headlines should be displayed. FREE.
- Latest Featured Links
A very simple mod which allows you to display a list of the latest featured links which have been submitted to the directory. The mod will display the number of featured links as defined under the administration setting “Links on top pages:” under Settings > Directory. FREE.
- Latest Featured Links
A very simple mod which allows you to display a list of the latest featured links which have been submitted to the directory. The mod will display the number of featured links as defined under the administration setting “Links on top pages:” under Settings > Directory. FREE.
- Random Quotes
This little addition to your site will allow you to display a random quote every time a page is requested. This is a highly effective method of introducing fresh content for the search engines, especially when operating a niche directory. FREE.
- Site of the Day
Allows you to display a “Site of the Day” on any of the pages you choose. The web site is randomly selected from the database; with each day loading a new site. An example of this mod in action can be seen on our homepage. This mod is very straight-forward and easy to install, just download the zip file and follow the install.txt contained within. FREE.
- Framed Listing
Opens links in framed environment, where surfer has option to (1) remove frames, or (2) return to directory. Useful in surfer retention by keeping visitors on your site longer. PAID.
- Random Link
Opens random link (changes with every usage). PAID.
- Site of the Day
You can display 1 or more sites, and in any given time period (for example, site of the day, sites of the week, etc.). You can display results in own page, or embed in any existing template page. PAID.
- Article MOD
Add articles to each category page. FREE
- RSS News Mod
This mod “RSS News Mod combined with DHTML” displays Yahoo news related to your categories. The mod is not only limited to yahoo news feeds,you can change it to your favorite news feeds. You can also change the number of news to display. FREE.
Administrative
- Referral Mod
This MOD will help you to track the submissions and by this you can know where the submissions came from! FREE.
- Sponsored Ads Mod
Powerful advertise system for Php Link Directory. Supports both: text ads and banners. Dozens of cofigurable settings. Fully integrated with PhpLD Admin what makes menaging advertising system pretty easy. PAID.
- Directory Sitemap
With this mod you can easily add to your directory SITEMAP. PAID.
- Pagerank Limitter Mod
With this mod you can easily limit submissions only for websites with Google Pagerank equal or higher than you decide. Very good way to limit poor submissions! PAID.
- Disable Main Categories
With this mod you can disable Top-Level Categories for submission. The mod doesn’t work with Ajax categories selector. Top-Level categories are still visible on the list but cannot be selected! PAID.
- Top Level Domain mod
With this mod you can limit submitted links to Top-Level Domains URLs. Limit can be used for selected link type. PAID.
- Closed Category Mod
With this mod you can easily close any category for submission. It is also possible to close category for specific link type. You can try to submit link to Arts->Closed. PAID.
- Split Category Links
Split up the category links on your details page and increase your internal linking structure. Normally if a user submits to the category “Business » Investing » Other”, the details page will display a single link back to that category. Install this mod and instead, your details page will generate a link for each sub category. One for “Business » Investing » Other”, one for “Business » Investing” and one for “Business”! FREE.
- Coupon Mod
This mod will add an extra “Coupon” field in submit page of phpld directory (any version from 2.0 to 3.2). When a submitter will enter a correct coupon code, he will be eligible to get some discount on the review price The amount of discount can be either fix (e.g. $2.99) or a percentage amount (30%), which can be set from PHPLD admin section. PAID.
- SEO Friendly Article Page
With this simple mod you can include any field from the link table in the URL of the details page. FREE.
- SEO friendly details pages
With this simple mod you can include any field from the link table in the URL of the details page. FREE.
- PageRank Updater
phpLD PageRank Updater is a standalone application designed so directory owners can update the PageRank on all their links remotely. This application does not run on your webserver. That way massive checking of PageRank will not be associated with a site running phpLD. This tool runs independantly of your directory bare from access to your MySQL database. FREE.
- Alternate Payment
Provides additional payment options in addition to the default phpLD PayPal payment option: 2CheckOut (2CO), AlertPay, eGold, Moneybookers, and StormPay. Useful if you cannot use PayPal to accept payments, and you want to offer paid listings. PAID.
- Category Pricing Mod
Allows different prices to be set for different categories. FREE.
- Banned Word
This mod will allow you to enter a list of words to be banned from
submissions into a text file. FREE.
- Deep-Links Mod
This allows submitters to enter additional URLs besides the homepage URL. PAID.
- Payment System Mod
Offers a new payment system written in PERL that supports all versions of phpLD. This new system is designed to improve and automate your overall directory business. It allows you to reduce your PayPal fees and to deal with SPAM. Since this payment system incorporates full use of PayPal IPN, it allows you to only see submissions that PayPal has marked as valid. In other words, you won’t see any submission listings in your phpLD admin section unless PayPal notifies you of a successful payment. PAID.
- SEO friendly article pages
With this MOD, your article pages urls will contain the title of the article for better search engine optimization. FREE.
Users
- Featured Link Renew Mod
Very useful modification for established directories using expiry time unit for Featured links.
Allows FEATURED links owners to RENEW their listings in easy and fully automated proccess. PAID.
- Multiple Categories Submission
Allows to submit to Multiple Categories with one submission. Suggested number of additional categories: 2-3. Can be restricted to any type of submission. If allowed for featured submissions, link will appear as Featured under main category and as regular under additional categories. PAID.
- A - Z Mod
Lets you browse links by alphabet from A to Z. For each alphabet letter links are displayed with pagination support and sorting capabilities. PAID.
- Social Bookmarks
This mod allows you to list a series of social bookmarks on your directory for users to either bookmark your site, or bookmark your customers sites directly from the details page. There are various different configuration options which allow you to integrate into your directory. The mod currently supports all of the following social bookmarking sites: Blinklist, Delicious, Digg, Furl, Google, Magnolia, Reddit, Simpy, Spurl, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Yahoo. FREE.
- Image Uploader
Allows submitter to upload an image with their listing for display in the listings. For example, if you want to allow banners in listings. Especially useful as a sales incentive by only allowing paid listings the option to upload images. PAID.
- Rate Listing
Allows surfers to rate links, with option to display top XX rated links. Highly configurable. You can define: - how long (in XX hours) that someone must wait before they can rate the same listing again [default = 24] [logged IPs in SQL database are automatically purged every XX hours by rate.php]. PAID.
- Refer Listing
Allows surfers to recommend listings to others, along with optional message. Useful in spreading the word about your site, and increasing traffic to your site. PAID.
- Report Listing
Allows surfers to report links (e.g., listing does not load, listing violates the rules) to webmaster, who receives reports via email. Useful in keeping your listings up-to-date, and clean. PAID.
- Suggest Category
Allows surfers to suggest categories / subcategories. Suggested categories / subcategories are inactive until webmaster approves them via phpLD Admin - webmaster receives email confirmation when suggestions submitted. PAID.
Mar 28
How can a web design company get their services in front of people who are actually looking for web site design services? The answer is Web Designers Directory. The site is exclusively designed to bring together web designers and related service providers to showcase their work on one site. The people who visit Web Designers directory are actively looking for web design services, thus they are all potential clients. The sites are categorized by either state, county and web specialization. This is a grand advantage because it allows you to hit your target market more efficiently than if you were to submit your site to just a general business directory.
Mar 28
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Mar 28
Eonte is a searchable human-edited general web directory of quality and spam-free web sites. Offers webmasters of both personal and business sites paid website submissions for a one time fee. Offers advertisers affordable highly targeted internet traffic exposure, provides users with features that enhance user experience and site discovery.
Featured Listing $59.99
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- Guaranteed 24 hours review!
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- For a one-time fee, the listing will never expire. (Permanent Listing)
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September 23rd, 2007 
