Archive for March 4th, 2008

March
4

March PageRank Update – Directory Affect?

After every TBPR Update (Toolbar PageRank) there seems to be a small army of SEOs and webmasters who want to know one thing, “How were the directories affected?”

As I always do, I hand check the directories to see how they fared. Here is a brief run down:

Aviva Directory – Lost off of their PageRank, this after dropping one point to a 4/10 during the last update in November.

WOW Directory – This is another that has dropped consistently. A drop to 4/10 in October, then a drop to 3/10 in January and now down to 0/10. Hate that.

Illumirate – This one has been down a lot over the last few months and has been built on Cold Fusion. Why would you ever do that. I made that mistake once. You tend to learn rather quickly.

There were 70 changes in all.

21 went up and 49 went down. Here is a complete list in alphabetical order. To get my complete update, you’ll need to subscribe to the SEO Revolution.

My personal favorite has to be the Search Engine Friendly directory which lost ALL of its PageRank. Gotta hate that. Name change coming?!?!

A Free Directory +1 to 2/10
AbiLogic -1 to 3/10
Add Your Site Free -3 to 0/10
Agada -2 to 0/10
Ajdee +1 to 4/10
Ajooja +4 to 4/10
All the Bizz -1 to 2/10
Aviva Directory -4 to 0/10
Big All +2 to 2/10
Blue Daffodil -1 to 2/10
Business Seek -3 to 0/10
Cache Directory -1 to 1/10
Cherry Directory -1 to 1/10
Clear Lead Inc. -3 to 0/10
Clickey +1 to 5/10
Cluboo -2 to 3/10
Complete Online Directory -1 to 1/10
Cream Directory -1 to 1/10
Dhundo +1 to 3/10
Directory Lab +1 to 2/10
Directory One +1 to 3/10
Directory Share -3 to 0/10
Directory Station -3 to 0/10
dirSpace -3 to 0/10
Family Friendly Sites +2 to 6/10
Forge Matrix -1 to 0/10
Found Ya -1 to 2/10
Gokodo -1 to 2/10
Gooony -1 to 0/10
Got That Online +1 to 4/10
Home Page Seek -1 to 2/10
Illumirate -1 to 4/10
Info Web World +1 to 4/10
King Bloom -1 to 3/10
Klik Klik -1 to 4/10
Link Now -1 to 2/10
Links Match +1 to 4/10
Little Directory -1 to 2/10
Look Forth -1 to 2/10
Megri -1 to 3/10
Multimeta -2 to 3/10
Native Directory -1 to 1/10
Network Room +3 to 3/10
Octopedia +1 to 5/10
One Big Directory -3 to 0/10
Ranking Directories -1 to 2/10
Relevant Links -2 to 0/10
RLRouse -3 to 0/10
Search Ave -1 to 2/10
Search Worth -1 to 1/10
Seek Above -1 to 2/10
SEO Friendly Directory (http://www.seofriendlydirectory.com/) -3 to 0/10
Seoma +1 to 5/10
Sezza -1 to 4/10
Share Directory +3 to 3/10
Sites on Display +1 to 4/10
Skatoo -1 to 2/10
Smart Find +1 to 3/10
Smarty Links +1 to 4/10
SOCEngine -3 to 1/10
Speedy Directory -1 to 2/10
Spheri -1 to 4/10
Sporge +1 to 3/10
Starting Point -1 to 4/10
The Lanka -1 to 2/10
Top Web Hosting Directory -1 to 2/10
WoW Directory -3 to 0/10
XTLinks +1 to 4/10
Your Free Link -1 to 0/10
Your Web Blog Here +3 to 3/10

March
4

Roger Parker Interview

Tomorrow night I’m being interviewed by Roger Parker, a certified coach with Guerrilla Marketing from 7pm-8pm Eastern time.

March
4

Yahoo! Search Index Update Rolling Out

Yahoo! started updating their search index yesterday according to their Blog.

So far, in Day Two of the update I am seeing NO changes across any of the 500+ domains we manage. Even the rate in which Yahoo! crawls hasn’t been noticeably different. I will be keeping tabs on this, however, not too closely as the amount of organic traffic being driven by Yahoo! is low.