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As webmasters, we all know the importance of content based sites. We also know how difficult it could be to present, manage and add new content to our site. This is the reason that CMS systems inludinng blogging systems have become widely popular. But blogging and portal software’s cannot be used to ideally represent all types of data. For example a set of website URL’s can be represented by a directory script rather than the Wordpress software. Similarly you can start your own glossary site using the glossary script rather than Joomla or Nucleus. Read the rest of this entry »

Elegant Directory is a general web directory on the lines of Yahoo! or DMOZ. This means that categories are widely distributed in niches and everything from pins to planes is covered as part of some category. So you have multiple categories like Blogs, Home, Regional, Science, Sports etc. We gave these examples so that you get an idea of the variety of categories and obviously the listings within. There are webmasters who do not prefer general web directories precisely for this reason - that they do not target a niche. But designed, maintained and marketed properly, even general web directories can be successful. Read the rest of this entry »

This article goes into some of the more advanced areas of domaining such as,  Nameserver Registration and and hosting, IE Reseller Hosting/Shared Hosting.

Now that you’ve registered your domain name you’re going to want to get hosting for it, you can’t have a site if you don’t have a host. There are a few things you should be careful of though when it comes to host hunting try to keep to these guidelines if you can. Read the rest of this entry »

Somehow having a directory at every nook and corner have reduced their importance and effectiveness. Our faith in them as an effective advertising platform has also gone down. Now we feel that for a directory to survive, it has go beyond a ready made script and be ‘out of the box’. Regular readers of our blog know we say this continuously and also know that whenever we find sites that do things differently, we showcase them. Today we looked at a directory, the HighStuffs business directory, which we feel deserves a mention. Read the rest of this entry »

We came across an interesting article on the link building blog regarding the five common mistakes webmasters do while SEO’ing. The remarkable part of this post was that probably 8 out of 10 webmasters commit these blunders and the ‘don’ts’ themselves are not that unreasonable.

The blog post mainly deals with five points on how not to build links. They are ‘not using the same anchor text’, ‘not having all links to the same page’, ‘not growing too fast’, ‘not linking your own sites too much’, ‘not trading links in public forums’. Read the rest of this entry »