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John_Dean

 

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Please, somebody to help me. - 11/16/2006 15:48:26   
Please, somebody to help me.
Just I want to know where are the problems in my site wwwdotmareli.org

Thank you in advance!

<edit>Broke link.</edit>


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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/16/2006 16:33:01   
yawn. main problem is it's another directory. second is it looks boring, but the first problem is your main one ;)

sorry if that sounds rude but i - like many people - are just not into another directory site

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/16/2006 17:34:31   
Ditto.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/18/2006 17:41:34   
You don't have to change the content much, just present it in a more interesting way.

Innovate! There are hundreds of ways to present the information in an exciting way. The viewers don't want or need another directory, they want experience.

Do you think Technorati is a directory? It may work like one, but they decided not to make it that way. You shouldn't either.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/18/2006 17:47:11   
Yes, Technorati is a directory, and no matter how you dress it up, it's still a directory.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/19/2006 15:17:52   
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ORIGINAL: womble

Yes, Technorati is a directory, and no matter how you dress it up, it's still a directory.

You say it's a bad thing? :)

I like Technorati. I use it. If it would only be a list of categories on the homepage and a search feature, many people wouldn't bother. See what I mean? It's not only about what you do but also how you do it.

The main difference from many other directories is that Technorati is popular.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/20/2006 6:03:10   
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The main difference from many other directories is that Technorati is popular.
But isn't that the problem? There are many other directories and there are more and more every day. It's getting to the stage where you Google for something and then have to pick your way around directories to actually find something relevant.

What hacks me off more than anything else is using a directory that provides you with a link to another directory and another and another. I've done searches recently where I've spent 10 minutes or more just trying to find an actual site.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/20/2006 9:34:27   
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But isn't that the problem? There are many other directories and there are more and more every day. It's getting to the stage where you Google for something and then have to pick your way around directories to actually find something relevant.

What hacks me off more than anything else is using a directory that provides you with a link to another directory and another and another. I've done searches recently where I've spent 10 minutes or more just trying to find an actual site.

Then you just have to reinvent the idea of a directory. If photo directories suck, invent Flickr. If video directories suck, invent YouTube. If directories in overall suck, invent Google. If blog directories suck also, invent Technorati.







Oh yeah, I know... we're kicking a dead horse here...

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/20/2006 9:37:29   
No we're dealing with cloning. The first 50 identikits are fine but when it reaches thousands and they're still turning up then it's time the search engines did something about it.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/20/2006 12:20:54   
You could build your own SE from resltr although to be honest it doesn't do anything for the crap content of searches ie. stuffed with directories, just saves a bit of time in trawling the results.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/20/2006 13:16:03   
Yes I've got a bit of kit around somewhere that does something similar but again I got directories listing directories.:)

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/20/2006 15:50:43   
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What hacks me off more than anything else is using a directory that provides you with a link to another directory and another and another. I've done searches recently where I've spent 10 minutes or more just trying to find an actual site.

That was just what I meant in my post the other week when I had a little rant when the day before heading off to Chester I ended up dashing off to do some physical shopping because all I got back from Google was directory after directory. If I wanted a directory, then I'd look for a directory. What the hell these directories optimise their keywords for I don't know, but I was recently looking for some info on some medical tests I'm having done, and guess what?! Directory after directory that apparently sells this test, along with eBay who also apparently does!

Directory sites IMO are a waste of space, and a waste of my time. Most of the time they're simply link farms that are of absolutely no benefit to the user. The links to the other directories they're stuffed with are often either broken, irrelevant, or equally of no use.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 11/21/2006 9:49:12   
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What the hell these directories optimise their keywords for I don't know,
It's not that that gives them such a high ranking, it's all the bloody stupid backlinks from all the other F-wit directories. To me it demonstrates what a waste of time SEO is becoming.

The search engines should go back to ranking sites purely on the relevancy of their content. Ranking by Backlinks only helps the crooks and wideboys out there and no-one else.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 12/9/2006 6:12:44   
Yeah, i agree with the other posts before me.

This is looking like "yet another directory" you find yourself at when you spelled some famous website's name wrong, and therefore a site that i close directly without a moments hesitation..

Atleast try to make it look less like "yet another directory", my opinion. But if you want it that way, keep it that way :)

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 12/9/2006 6:45:20   
Methinks, based on the format of our new friend's user name - forename_surname is a very common format used by spammers and spam bots I've found elsewhere, the fact that he seems to have done a disappearing act, and he also seems to post identical questions on a number of different forums, that our new friend is infact a spammer and only here for the backlinks, and therefore not worthy of even a read, let alone a click. Type that username into google and you'll find a number of instances of the same username cropping up on various webmaster related forums with very low postcounts, no response from him/her/it to the replies to those posts, and the same sig and link on all of them.

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RE: Please, somebody to help me. - 12/11/2006 7:48:48   
hey dude first let me say that I entered my site to your directory

I have to agree with the rest of the comments that its another directory there are loads of them you must think of something that will make you unique try to find some kind of edge.

I can tell you that when I create Snoogie which is an instant messaging site I tried to distinguish it from other by making it for communities and not a personal contact list (as the rest of the instant messaging software)

so either have some kind of a graphical gizmo or some other idea to make standout

anyway good luck dude

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