“I want to get my website listed on DMOZ. Can your company help?” This is a question my digital consulting agency receives multiple times a week from business owners, website designers, online ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...