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	<title>George Chaney - Official SEO Blog &#187; Directories</title>
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		<title>Paid Directories: Which Ones Really Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about paid directories and trying to decide whether or not it&#8217;s worth it to participate with your site? Paying for a quality directory listing can and does have its benefits. Not so long ago, getting listed with the major directories was a sure fire way to draw lots and lots of traffic to your site &#8212; directly from the directory. Remember the time when you would actually start a web browsing session by browsing the Yahoo! Directory and looking for cool newly recommended sites (these were marked with an icon of sunglasses)? It&#8217;s amazing that this used to be a primary source of traffic. Of course, this time of the past was also quite awhile before Google and search eventually became the way of the web. But back to directories today. Getting listed with the reputable directories has pretty much just one major benefit these days &#8212; it helps you build credibility and high quality backlinks. In other words, a good directory listing isn&#8217;t likely to provide you with any remarkably level of traffic directly from the directory listing itself, but the increase in link popularity can certainly influence your search engine rankings with a positive impact. So, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Need A DMOZ.org Listing To Succeed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Chaney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long having been a popular “must-list” directory for website owners to get their sites listed with, is DMOZ.org still as important as it was in the past when it comes to building link popularity and enhancing search engine optimization?  We’ll get to that in just a minute&#8230; First, Let’s Take A Look A The Background Information DMOZ.org, a very popular open source and editor managed web directory, goes back to the early days of “Web 1.0” and search engine optimization.  In fact, with popularity right next to the legendary Yahoo! Directory and with always-free listings compared to Yahoo! Directory’s slant towards paid inclusion, DMOZ.org was one of a handful of web directories that were considered absolutely essential to be listed with if a website would ever hope to be found by visitors. Thing is, this was before search engines like Google really began to hit their stride.  Web directories were the standard—remember browsing them looking for new link additions to a cool new site to tell all of your friends about?  You get extra credit if you remember the Yahoo! sunglasses icon. Then There Was The Second Phase Of Directory Popularity As search engines began to steal all of the [...]]]></description>
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