Yahoo Directory Worth The Money?

yahoo directory to make money

As most of you know a large majority of the popular web directories have been penalized by Google. Less and less authority is being given to web directories so submitting your website for review to them is almost worthless.

There are still a couple directories that should still hold value such as DMOZ and Yahoo Directory. DMOZ is free to submit to but it’s damn close to impossible to be accepted in a reasonable time frame.

Yahoo directory has a free and paid option. The same as DMOZ getting accepting if you submit for free is just about impossible. The paid option is 299.00 dollars per year and guarantees a review time of 7 days or less.

I normally wouldn’t submit to Yahoo directory because I am leery of the actual ROI of doing so but I decided it would be a good experiment. So I have submitted GuruCreation using the paid review option with the title “Make Money Online”.

The goal is to see if it will help push the website up a notch or two in the SERP’s. The submission may not even be accepted with the title make money online so I will have to wait and see.

Either way I will post back here in 7 days with an update on the submission process. Once approved it should take at least a few weeks for any noticable changes if there is any at all.

Dear Yahoo! Directory Submit Client,

The URL you submitted for expedited review url:http://www.gurucreation.com/ has been received by Yahoo!. Your submission request has been assigned a unique ORDER ID: *********.

(Important: Please hold on to this ID number, as it is the only way we can track the progress of your request. Save this email for your records - do not delete it.)

Because you have opted to use the Yahoo! Directory Submit service, a member of our editorial team will respond to your submission within seven business days.

For more information about the Yahoo! Directory Submit program, please check the frequently asked questions (FAQ) located at http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/submit/.

Thank you for taking the time to submit your site. We rely on users such as yourself to make the Yahoo! Directory complete and comprehensive.

Thanks,
The Yahoo! Directory Submit Team

UPDATE: June 04, 2008

The good news, GuruCreation was listed in Yahoo! Directory yesterday. The bad news, Yahoo changed the category we submitted for to one with a ton of out going links. So eventually the listing will be buried.

More bad news, Yahoo changed the anchor text and description text totally. I submitted the anchor text “Make Money Online” and they changed it to “Guru Creation”. I am not exactly sure why they did this because 90% of the listings in Yahoo use keyword anchor text.

Yahoo has an option where you can submit for a change in your listing but your listing has to be live for 3 weeks first. I haven’t seen any changes in SERPs and wouldn’t expect any this early anyway.

The page my listing is on was cached by Google on Jun 1st so I will help it out with a little “ping”. So I will post back here in about a week or so and let you know when I rank number one for MMO :)

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New Google Algorithm Effective Today!

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For those of you who haven’t noticed many blogspot blogs, .info and .co.uk domain have totally bombed out of the SERPs!

For example looking at the keyword phrase “make money online” the two websites that have been ranking in the number 1 and 2 position for a very long time are no where to be found.

We are in the early stages of this change and the word is starting to spread.

The only reason I can think of that Google would penalize all websites with these extensions is because a majority of spam comes from them. Is it fair to penalize every webmaster using blogspot hosted blogs or one of the mentioned extensions?

One thing is for sure if this sticks the amount of spam and crap websites in Google index is going to drastically reduce. The suggestion I have right now for those affected would be to grab a fresh .com or .net and 301 redirect to it ASAP.

Hopefully doing this will help you salvage the content and backlinks from your website that was hit with this penalty.

I have done a search and have been unable to find any blogspot, info or co.uk domains ranking in the top 10 or 20 for that matter for any keyword phrases.

If you have or had a website that was ranking and now has been slapped please comment here with the details so we can evaluate this further.

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Social Bookmarking to Make Money Online

For any website to succeed long term there are 4 main ingredients needed.

1. Unique quality content.
2. Well search engine optimized website.
3. Backlinks
4. Traffic

A few of these methods go hand in hand such as backlinks and traffic. If you have backlinks traffic will eventually follow because you should start ranking higher in the search engines for your target keywords.

In this blog post I will show you two free social bookmarking tools that will help you increase your backlinks through social bookmarking websites. Both tools serve the same purpose and I am showing you both of them in case one is offline.

The two bookmarking tools that will help you make money online are www.socialmarker.com and http://socialposter.com

1. Visit the website and drag the “SocialMarker” button into your browser toolbar.

2. Visit the website or single page that you want to social bookmark and click the button you just added to your toolbar.

3. You will be taken to socialmarker when you will be able to enter a page title, link, text and tags.

4. Click the submit button and you are taken to the first social bookmarking website. At the bottom of your screen you can grab and paste the details for the page you are bookmarking into the form.

( You will need to register an account at each social bookmarking website if you do not already have one. )

5. Repeat this process for all 47 social bookmarking websites.

If you the page you bookmarked has good content you can expect to see a rise in traffic. Your page may even go viral if the content is good enough.

At the very least you just obtained some backlinks from authority websites which will help you in the SERPs and make money online in the long run.

Here is another list of social bookmarking websites that “dofollow” if you want to grab more backlinks.

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How I Increased My Blog Traffic Blogger Archives

This isn’t going to be some long tutorial but rather one method you can apply to your blogger blog. As many of you know blogger is not exactly search engine optimized out of the box.

This was the reason I made the Blogger meta tags changes.

Now I have made another change that seems to have made a significant increase in traffic referred from Google. The blogger archive option sucks and all it does is create duplicate content for you blog which will hurt you in the long run.

So what I did which took a while was create my own HTML archives page.

Look down the right column of the blog and you will see the “Archives”. I went through each blog post and added it to one of my HTML archives pages with some tasty keyword anchor text.

Now I have a list of all my past posts which are linked directly from my home page and they use keyword anchor text that I want. This means those “Archive” posts are getting crawled a lot more often than they would have been.

In turn my traffic from Google search has jumped up quite a bit. All I have to do now is update the archive page every 10 posts that I make. That’s the number of posts that stay active on the front page of this blog.

I also just started testing another method to gain higher search engine rankings for blog post without building any out side links to those posts. I will report back in a few weeks to see how that is working out.

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Power Blogging

“Power Blogging” is a term I use when I am looking to create a bunch of unique hot topic blog posts really fast.

The reasoning behind “Power Blogging” is so I can establish my blog as an authority in it’s niche quickly and have it making money online fast.

- How I “Power Blog”

1. First thing I do is head over to iGoogle and create a fresh account.

2. Now I visit all my favorite blogs or authority blogs in the niche that I am targeting. The purpose of this is grab their RSS feed.

3. Take the RSS and punch it into the iGoogle reader so it displays on your iGoogle page.

a. Click on the “Add Stuff” link in the almost upper right hand corner of the page.

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b. Middle left hand side of the page you will see “Add feed or gadget” URL. Click on it and add the RSS feed you just found.

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By this point you should have about 15 RSS feeds displayed on your iGoogle page that about the niche of the blog you have created. Now it’s time to get some quick ideas for content to Power Blog about.

4. Visit one of the blog posts by clicking on an RSS feed. Read the post and take note of the key points of the post. Repeat this process again for a second RSS feed you have found.

5. Now you should have a few really good ideas for creating a blog post of your own. So head over to your blog create a 100% unique post based of some of the ideas you came up with.

6. Wash rinse and repeat 10 – 15 times per day.

This may seem like a lot but once you get 500 – 600 fresh blog posts that are about topics people want to read watch your traffic shoot up. This is the whole point of power blogging.

Establish yourself as an authority in a niche, increase your traffic and monetize the crap out of your blog. You should be making money online with your blog relatively fast by Power Blogging.

*Make sure you are not copying the content from the blogs you visit. The content is ONLY to be used to give you ideas to write about. Copying a websites content is illegal and will only hurt you in the long run.

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List of Social Bookmarking Websites

Below is a list of social bookmarking websites with DOFOLLOW links. So you can grab some traffic and juice from established websites at the same time.

I can’t take all the credit for this list I found it on the DP forum back in 2008. I don’t’ have the exact thread URL or I would post it. I copied the list into notepad a couple days ago and guess I forgot the URL, conveniently ( kidding ).

Of course the list their wasn’t this pretty with update PageRank and hyperlinked :) Start at the top of the list and spam the crap out of every social bookmarking website listed below.

Just kidding, responsible bookmarking makes for a safe and fun Internet for us all :) Anyway, grab some traffic, juice and make money online!

1. http://www.furl.net/ ( PR8 )
2. http://www.bibsonomy.org/ ( PR7 )
3. http://www.mister-wong.com/ ( PR 7 )
4. http://www.backflip.com/ ( PR6 )
5. http://www.linkagogo.com/ ( PR6 )
6. http://www.spurl.net/ ( PR6 )
7. http://www.clipclip.org/ ( PR6 )
8. http://buddymarks.com/ ( PR5 )
9. http://www.mylinkvault.com/ ( PR5 )
10. http://spotback.com/ ( PR5 )
11. http://www.connectedy.com/ ( PR5 )
12. http://www.myvmarks.com/ ( PR5 )
13. http://www.spaceed.org/ ( PR5 )
14. http://www.a1-webmarks.com/ ( PR4 )
15. http://www.oyax.com/ ( PR4 )
16. http://www.tedigo.net/ ( PR4 )
17. http://www.complore.com/ ( PR4 )
18. http://www.upchuckr.com/ ( PR4 )
19. http://www.ez4u.net/ ( PR3 )
20. http://info4it.com/ ( PR3 )
21. http://www.mypip.com/home/ ( PR3 )
22. http://www.syncone.net/ ( PR3 )
23. http://www.yattle.com/ ( PR3 )

Wait did I miss some? If so let me know and I can add them to the list!

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Blogger Meta Tags

If you are using Blogger.com as your content management system you know that it doesn’t create unique Meta tags for each page, which sucks!

I made a post on another blog about a year ago with code that will create unique meta tags for each page of your blog. I got bored a couple weeks ago and tweak the code a little bit.

I have since noticed a significant increase in traffic and all my post are usually indexed with in minutes. Getting indexed fast isn’t a big deal but the increase in traffic is.

The only thing I can attribute this traffic increase to is using this code to create unique Blogger Meta tags. I have only tested this on self-hosted Blogger blogs. So if you are using Blogger to host your blog you can try it but I don’t know if it will work.

One thing I didn’t mention in the video is that you must be using classic Blogger mode. This is the mode where you can edit and or create your own Blogger template such as I have done on this blog.

Just grab the code from below and replace the old Blogger Meta tag code between the head tags of your blog template.

More traffic equals making more money online baby!

Blogger Meta Tags

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Shoemoney Dumbest SEO Post Ever

Generally I like most of Shoemoney’s posts but this has to be flat out the dumbest post I have seen in a long time.

Shoemoney said that search engine optimization has no future. He believes that eventually website rankings will solely be determined by social voting. If you think search engine rankings are manipulated now just image if they were left up to a voting system!

I can think of 10 ways right off the bat to manipulate the crap out of a voting system so I could dominate any keyword I wanted.

Can anyone say Tor?

There will ALWAYS be a need for SEO. While search algorithm’s are getting smarter and more advanced they will always need help.

There are hundreds of thousands of website owners out there that don’t even have a clue about Meta tags or how to use them. Without SEO services to do even simple tasks like this search bots would be lost and potentially never properly index a website that has great content.

I could shoot holes in Shoemoney’s “theory” all day but in the end what I believe his post boils down to is great link bait. This is what makes great blogers right here people, so take note.

Create a story that is ridiculous and will create controversy. Now you have the formula for bringing in a lot of traffic and backlinks.

For the sake of keeping the tradition of great link bait alive I give you Shoemoney’s Dumbest SEO Post Ever.

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