Our Server Had Hard Disk Failure

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September 16, 2007

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Last night, one of the hard drives on our servers failed. The result was the website going down for about 8-10 hours and some minor data lost. We restored a backup from the 13th of September so only a few days data was lost.

If you submitted your web directory after the 13th of September please resubmit it here:

http://www.directorycritic.com/add.html

If you paid for a listing, or upgraded to a premium listing please add your web directory then contact us. We will verify you made a previous payment and add your directory back to the site.

There might be a few minor glitches over the next 24 hours while we get everything back up 100%. If you find any problems throughout the site please don’t hesitate to contact us and report them.

Thanks for your patience, we’re working hard to get Directory Critic fully operational again!


New Stuff On Directory Critic!

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August 22, 2007

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Hi guys and girls!

We’ve added a few new features to the site in the past week. Here they are:

  1. Social Bookmarking Buttons
    If you use social bookmarking, please support us by adding the pages of this site that you like to your bookmarks. You can find buttons to all the popular social bookmarking sites on all or lists and homepage.
  2. Thumbnails On Details Pages
    We’ve now added thumbnails to the details page for all directories listed on Directory Critic. You can see an example of Aviva’s details page here.

I’ve also been talking to a few directory owners about the possibility of payment to be listed rather than reciprocal linking. Some directory owners would like the ability to pay a fee for being listed rather than placing a link to us on their site.

Soon we’ll be adding this feature, along with new featured directory listings. For a 1 time fee directory owners will be able to get listed without linking back to us. The recip linking option will still be available for those who don’t mind adding the link.

Featured listings will give directory owners the opportunity to be listed at the top of the paid directory list. Featured listings will be available on the paid list only.

So stay tuned for those updates. Any questions, post a comment!


6,000 Active & Verified Directory Ratings!

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August 17, 2007

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Tonight the number of active and verified webmaster ratings on Directory Critic clocked over 6,000!

Thanks to all the directory owners that send their submitters to rate their directory here. It should pay off in return traffic in the long run!

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It’s Good To See Quality Free PHPLD Templates!

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July 17, 2007

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It’s good to see so many quality free PHPLD templates that are now available! The first free PHPLD templates made available were pretty basic, but now more designers are getting involved and the quality is keeps getting better.

I’ve noticed that the free PHPLD templates section of this site is getting more pageviews and downloads over the last month. There are now 53 free templates available and almost 2,000 downloads!

Here are some of my personal favorites from the collection:

SlyGreen – by Linksjuice
Glossary Orange – by My Green Corner
Coolwave – by PHPLD.us
Explore – by PHPLD.us
Link Gear – by Emille
Cyclone – by PHPLDTemplates.com
Alive 3.2 – by Directory Mix
SwirlMix – by All PHPLD

If you’re a designer and offer free templates, apply to have them listed here on DC. You’ll get some extra exposure and more downloads of your template.


Unique Daily Directory Submission Services by dotcompals

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June 25, 2007

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Want to submit your website to all the new SEO Friendly, FREE, Non reciprocal directories announced at Major Webmaster forums and Directory lists like DirectoryCritic.com?

We can submit your website to all the new directories as it is announced/launched. We offer manual Directory Submission with Quality Reports. We maintain a reports in a Google spreadsheet file and share it with you.

Highlights:

  • Accepting multiple anchor text links
  • Accepting multiple descriptions
  • Accepting multiple URLs including deep links
  • On an average get links in about 200+ web directories – more than half of them will turn paid after first few months.
  • This is a very cost effective way of promoting your website. Even if you get only 50 backlinks a month, that’s still only 40 cents a link!
  • Live Reporting using Google Spreadsheet
  • Easy payment options using paypal subscriptions
  • Discount on multiple orders
  • We believe in providing Quality service.

Signup for NEW DIRECTORY SUBMISSION SERVICES

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After making payment, send your site details to dotcompals @ Gmail.com in the following order:

Title (upto 5):
URL: Descriptions (upto 3):
Name for submission:
Email for submission:
Keywords:
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Read testimonials of other webmasters / SEOs using the above service

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Disclosure: This was a paid webmaster announcement. Directory Critic is in no way affiliated with World Click. If you would like to announce your webmaster service or directory here go to this page.


Latest Free PHPLD Template On Homepage

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June 10, 2007

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Just a minor homepage update. A random free PHPLD template is pulled from the database on each page load and featured on the homepage. You can see an example of this by clicking here.

We now have 45 unique free PHPLD templates listed in our resources section. If you’re a template designer and want to get extra exposure for your templates, you can apply to upload your templates to us. You will get your own page with links to your website where we’ll display your templates and make them available for downloading.

There have been around 1,350 template downloads since we opened the free templates section earlier this year. Now with a templates appearing on our main page we expect to have a lot more downloads.

Any questions about this, please contact us.


Directory Journal: A Premium Quality Web Directory

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June 3, 2007

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With carefully screened results, The Directory Journal provides links of the highest quality along with website reviews, industry relevant news sources, articles and How to guides. It provides up-to-the-minute news on important world-wide issues, The Directory Journal brings you the information you need on the business topics you care about the most.

DirJournal is not only a directory with links but is a mini advisers to the users. Not only do you find website listings on this directory but also related news items and other articles. So, if as an user, you are looking for something then not only can DirJournal.com give you information on relevant sites but also some relevant information itself.

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The above was a paid blog announcement. If you would like to announce your directory or webmaster service on our blog please see our advertising page.


Link Farm Clone Directories

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June 1, 2007

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Lately I’ve noticed a lot of clone directories and directory link farms are being submitted to Directory Critic. Here’s what I class as link farms or clones:

  • Loads of directories on the same IPs
  • Directories that have obviously had no effort at all put into them (some don’t even have a template or don’t even have the logo changed – how hard is it?)
  • Category clones (basically cloning an populated directory)

These type of directories have little to no value for the users of Directory Critic. In fact, that have no value to the internet as a whole. Many of these directories will go straight to Google’s supplemental index and never come out.

Another point to make is that if Google or other engines flag ones of these networks as a link farm and links to your site are consistent there is a chance that your site may also be flagged and it might effect your rankings.

So a notice to the people who are doing this, I know who you are, and I won’t be accepting any more of your directories. I have a script now that checks the database for other directories on the same IP, and it’s built into the directory approval process.

If anyone have any questions or problems with this email me 🙂


4,000 Web Directories!

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May 21, 2007

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I just approved the 4,000th web directory listed on this site! If we didn’t delete from the list, I’m sure it would be 5,000!

So what are you waiting for, start submitting!


6 More Free PHPLD Templates Uploaded

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May 19, 2007

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We’ve just added 6 more free PHPLD templates to our templates area. We now have a total of 32 free PHPLD templates available for download, with another 5-10 expected to be added in the next few weeks. So far there have been over 900 downloads from the templates area!

So if you make free PHPLD templates and want to increase the number of downloads and installs of your templates apply to have them listed on Directory Critic.


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