It’s That Time Again – PR UPDATE

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May 8, 2007

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Well it’s that time again…PR update time 🙂 So tonight I ran the update script on both the web and article directory lists. Everything is now up-to-date again!


NO MORE INCENTIVIZED RATINGS

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April 29, 2007

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I am putting a stop to all incentivized ratings, effective immediately. This means you cannot offer ANY incentives at all for rating your directory. I know some directory owners are offering featured links, this is no longer allowed. It’s always been a gray area, and now some directory owners have pushed it too far by only offering featured listings to people who give them above a certain score.

I know which directories are doing this, and you need to stop now. If you do not stop, I will delete your directory without warning.

You can still encourage webmasters to rate your directory, but do not offer them anything for doing so.


Back In The Office

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April 16, 2007

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As most fo you have probably already noticed there are dirs on the new dirs page 🙂 I am back in the office, and after about 5 hours of solid work on this site I have everything up to date. Added about 70 or so new directories, and made 160 list updates.

Thanks for you patience, I didn’t receive too much hate mail about not approves directories quick enough! lol

So it’s business as usual from now on…


Out Of The Office Until The 15th April

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April 7, 2007

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I am taking a long deserved vacation 🙂 So I will be out of the office for 1 week, 8th to 15th of April. This means there will be no additions or list updates while I am away. I am up-to-date with current submissions, advertising and updates so nothing is waiting. You can still submit new directories, report directories etc and I will get to them when I get back into the office.

Thanks for your patience, I’ll be back soon 🙂


New Design Finally Live!

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March 13, 2007

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It took me a lot longer than I expected, but the new design of Directory Critic is now live! There are still a ton of things that need updating and changing, and a ton of new stuff that I am still working on. Here are a few changes that I’ve made:

  1. New resources section with free phpld templates page
  2. Main directory lists are now split into pages for faster load times
  3. More advertising options are available (advertising page will be up soon)
  4. New niche lists added, and a few more to come

If you find things that are not working correctly, please report them to me on the contact form.

In the next few days I will be running a logo design contest for the new DC logo. I will announce more details about that tomorrow or Thursday.


Getting Tough On Dormant Directories

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March 7, 2007

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No one wants to waste their time submitting their site to a directory that is not even going to review it. There are directories in our lists that are completely dormant and not accepting new submissions.

I am working with a friend of mine who runs a manual submission service (and uses our free lists) on finding these directories and removing them from the database. So don’t be surprised if you see the list numbers drop suddenly in next few days.

This is only us pruning the lists and keeping them up-to-date 🙂


New Design – Here in 1 Week

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February 26, 2007

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Directory Critic v2.0 has been a long time in the making. We are going to be doing a whole host of upgrades to the site over the next month or two. Here’s a rough time line of what’s happening…

  1. Next week new design goes live
  2. New advertising spots are opened for text links and banners
  3. New local, country and state directory lists added
  4. Webmaster and directory owner tools and resources

There’s a lot of stuff happening over the next couple of months, so check back to see what’s new!


Article Advertising & Report Function

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November 10, 2006

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Yesterday I added a report function to the article directory list. This is aimed to weed out many of the article directories that are with non-existent or not accepting new articles. I know there is quite a few of them. I have already removed about 20 and will do another 20 today. This should make the list much more user friendly.

I have also opened up 3 spots for advertising web directories, article directories or webmaster resources. The article directory list is one of the most popular pages on Directory Critic, so if you own a webmaster related site that needs some extra links and exposure head to the advertising page and subscribe.


New Directory Type, Mass Updates & Deletion Policy

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October 27, 2006

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I’ve got a few things to report today…

1. It seems to be a real trend for webmasters to start free directories and after about 1-6 months start charging for regular submissions, which is fine. But they usually keep the recip option open for free listings. So now, we have a directory type, Recip&Paid. So now we have:

  1. Free (Free listings only)
  2. Free&Paid (Free, paid and recip[usually])
  3. Recip Required (Recip links only)
  4. Recip&Paid (Reip and paid links)
  5. Paid (Paid links only)

2. I just processed over 100 reports which had been getting backlogged. This resulted in quite a few directories being deleted from the list. So I just wanted to let webmasters know that if your directory has errors (mysql, suspended etc etc) I generally give you 1 week to sort it out before I delete your directory. If you are having hosting problems or something like that which might take longer than a week to resolve please email me and I won’t delete your directory.

Thanks to the people who have been reporting directories, you’re really helping keep the lists up to date.


Its PR Update Time Again

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October 4, 2006

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PR updates are this site as christmas is to retail stores – a busy time! When directories get the good PR they were aiming for, they switch to paid. At the moment I just logged into admin, I have about 30 reports to process. Most of these will be free-to-paid updates. I have also received about 20 emails in the past few days from directory owners who were nice enough to inform me of the changes to their directory.

Please don’t email about PR updates, i will be running the PR update script tomorrow. I usually like to hold off until all Google’s servers are showing the updated PR.

I have also had a flood of new directories submitted so keep an eye on the new directories page. Last night I approved about 30 or so and declined about 10. I have another 25 to approve tonight. This should take the list total to about 2120. Next target, 2500!


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