Archive for 'B.E.P. Web Directory'

So far life running a directory has been an eye-opener for me. It wasn’t as easy as I thought (too much rubbish to sort through), so it’s no wonder a turn-around time of 2 weeks is placed upon free links my most directories.

I was checking through the day’s email submission notifications and, as sometimes happens, I found a reply to one of them. In this case the guy was notifying me that he’d removed the reciprocal link (big deal) and I was about to reply telling him to "resubmit but using a standard free link rather than reciprocal" but then I noticed he had hidden text on his site! (As can be seen below in the screenshots - control+a was used to highlight all text therefore revealing all including hidden text - compare the left and right pages…)

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Out of all the submissions as "reciprocal", 0 (ZERO) have offered PR (or the potential of it). Why is this? Not just because the page has a PR of zero it also has a future potential of zero as it is not linked to on the site (therefore not findable by Google), never mind the main page…

Or the backlink was not even there… (!)

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The site which caught my attention most first was E-Refrigeration due to a different, and interesting, topic compared to the usual medical/pharmacy/myspace/arcade sites which people are producing these days.

While the content is not completely unique, it is a great collection of articles with unique content added in which complements it well. It is also an example of what can be done with Joomla. The URLs are “clean” and (at the time of writing) mostly easy-to-remember (only a few “content/view/xxx/xxx” URLs). Navigation is easy, as all documents are neatly linked on the left column so it’s impossible to get lost when browsing the site.


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I’ve finally launched my directory. Feel free to submit as many sites as you wish … if a site catches my eye (for reasons good or bad) it could end up with a review in my blog - and a definite backlink on there if it’s good (site reviews are permanent).

B.E.P. General Directory

Currently, there is a special offer of $2.95 per featured link (the usual price will be $4.95), which is limited to one link per category (once the promotion has expired, the limit will be 3 featured links max per category).

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