Too Many Websites?
Skip | 12 February, 2005 16:31
Well, there you go. I blew it. Had a nice streak of daily blog posts and totally forgot to post here yesterday. I had the time and 3 times said, "oh yea, time to blog IWT", but got distracted.
Today's post is about the most significant thing you can do to help get your website ranked highly.
What do you think that might be?
Write good title tags? Write original content? Get a lot of inbound links? Build a website with thousands of pages?
Yes, those tasks and many more are very valuable.
But one of the most long-lasting and beneficial things you can do is to get your website listed in dmoz.org.
That site was once upon a time a spinoff from Netscape. I believe it formed around 1999 and now is massive in it's listings, volunteer editors and references.
How significant is getting into dmoz (a.k.a. The Open Directory Project, or ODP)?
Take a look at this chart.
Do you see dmoz.org, in green, in the center there? Do you see all the lines pointing out to most of the top search engines?
The ODP supplies 8 major search engines with the ODP listings. Each search engine, in turn, adds just a little extra weight for your website if you are listed in ODP.
Additionally, each of those search engines, plus hundreds of thousands of independent webmasters worldwide use the ODP results for their websites and directories.
The key point is that getting one listing in ODP means higher search engine rankings but also having your site listed on at least 8 other sites (the search engines) plus a few hundred websites who use the entire ODP database, plus thousands of websites who use niche results from ODP.
Go for it!
Skip
Today's post is about the most significant thing you can do to help get your website ranked highly.
What do you think that might be?
Write good title tags? Write original content? Get a lot of inbound links? Build a website with thousands of pages?
Yes, those tasks and many more are very valuable.
But one of the most long-lasting and beneficial things you can do is to get your website listed in dmoz.org.
That site was once upon a time a spinoff from Netscape. I believe it formed around 1999 and now is massive in it's listings, volunteer editors and references.
How significant is getting into dmoz (a.k.a. The Open Directory Project, or ODP)?
Take a look at this chart.
Do you see dmoz.org, in green, in the center there? Do you see all the lines pointing out to most of the top search engines?
The ODP supplies 8 major search engines with the ODP listings. Each search engine, in turn, adds just a little extra weight for your website if you are listed in ODP.
Additionally, each of those search engines, plus hundreds of thousands of independent webmasters worldwide use the ODP results for their websites and directories.
The key point is that getting one listing in ODP means higher search engine rankings but also having your site listed on at least 8 other sites (the search engines) plus a few hundred websites who use the entire ODP database, plus thousands of websites who use niche results from ODP.
Go for it!
Skip
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