The Internet is certainly a very powerful and convenient tool. Most of us moms who used to work 9-5 are now at home doing some write-ups of products and get paid for doing so. When I was starting out as a blogger, I have literally swept the web for every free web directory and submitted my blogs to each of them. I remember then how being wife to a graphic artist who regularly designs websites inclined me to choose design over SEO. My blog looks so much colorful compared to the simplistic layout of web directories.
When submitting my urls, it is inevitable to browse the directory itself and this made me realize that such directories are very good tools in providing information especially when looking for certain topics. They are basically a big catalog of websites. By submitting your url to a web directory, you are joining a number of other sites that tackle topics related to your blog. This can help boost your blogās search engine visibility too. How? By backlinksā¦Search engines have robots to find/crawl websites and add them to the search engineās database. Directories are manually run, editors find or receive websites and screen them for quality and relevance before adding them to the directoryās database. The human review process is the main factor between a web directory and a search engine.
There are many categories in web directories. Thereās the health and fitness, the home and garden, travel games, family life and thereās even a business web directory which is certainly more convenient and easy to browse rather than yellow pages. True, web directories are like online yellow pages, you get the information you need about certain topics by just a click of the mouse.
While browsing one time, the title explain brand manipulation to children caught my attention. The article tackles the issue of belonging in a so called crowd because of what one wears. So true, I just have to agree with it and the fact that brand names are killing us parents financially as wellā¦
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