Dan at IVS has just announced the new update to the IVS free directory list. Those of you who have used this list before would observe that the number of directories in this list has significantly reduced. Have no fear as this is what was intended in the first place. This update  consists of: - 29

You might have heard people say that one should never judge the book by its cover. But sadly that is not the case when it comes to judging ones business capabilities. You might have the best business solution or you might be the best service provider but if you cannot capture the imagination of your

So I just checked my bid directory and I was amazed to see the SPAM that was submitted to the site. In total I had close to 1500+ links that were submitted to this directory and with no bulk delete feature, it was a pain in the ass. Part of the problem could be that the PHPlb version that I am currently

What may be the use if the bark is worse than a bite? For an online business, the bite is important to cross the fine line between failure and success. This is what Lead Dogs is all about. For the success of your online business, lead generation is the blood line that will keep your business alive.

So, it’s time to upgrade to the latest version of PHPld. A lof of my directories are not yet upgraded and while looking for a few free themes, I managed to find a few good ones which luckily happened to be compatible with the latest release. This theme have been released by Dev Hunters in 3 color

This is a paid review: We talked about the evolution of directory lists, now let us look into the lucrative space of paid blogging and blog advertising. We have all heard or used the PayPerPost marketplace, now we have a new initiative by the same guys at IZEA. This one is called SocialSpark and with

They did mention that this year is going to be “The Year of the Social Media” and in that trend we have a new Seach Engine, Stumpedia. Now this is not the regular search engine, but infact a “Social Search Engine” where the automated bots and the algorithms have no place. With

Aviva Diretory was one among the many popular web directories that was penalized by Google. As most suggested, this was the effect of over optimization and aggressive backlink building. Some time back Aviva was not even ranking for it’s own name when searching in Google. Now Aviva is back on top

Well I know that it’s time we got over our PR addiction, but I guess a little bit of fascination will always remain. Just to let you guys know that the Google PR is updating and you could check your updated PR. You could use the tool I have on my site Check Google PageRank or if you would like

Now this is why we all love PHPld. This is another amazing mod released for PHPld where you get to show YouTube video within the categories pages. Don’t need to worry about losing your visitors as all videos have their individual detail page. So the visitor can view the video within your directory

So were you worried that about spam killing your PHPld powered directory. Well I agree that PHPld does house a inbuilt captcha for preventing the bots from making automatic submissions, but then now you have a better option. This is the new anti spam mod created for PHPld by Boby that claims to be

Now this one came quickly from mhamdi This is by far the most popular PHPld mod and if you have just purchased or upgraded to the latest version of PHPld 3.3, then head over to Rakcha for your FREE copy of the deep link mod for PHPLd 3.3 A little explaination for those of you who are new to using this

Sometime into the year I would like to visit Australia the first time I get a chance. Have a lot of my best webmaster friends there and it’s going to be awfully nice to get a chance to meet them in person. So destination Sydney is surely on the cards and the places that I would love to see would be

It’s always interesting to have a theory and well I just read through an interesting one. This one is to do with the “Adsense Fluctuation” that many webmasters are reporting, personally I have not experienced a dip, but the fact that my impression have increased and my adsense earning

Most of you will not be in a state to show off the PR of your blogs after the recent Google assault. But now you can show off a different kind of rank for your blogs, this one is called the “RealRanks”. The guys over at IZEA (who also own PayPerPost), have developed a tool that assigns ranks

So I did get a few mails and suggestions from CONCERNED people who were quite surpised that my Google PR  had dropped. Well I did worry about it too as it happened offcycle and caught me by surprise. I have had suggestions that I should consider changing my domain itself and start the site afresh.

Every webmaster loves the word SEO or for than matter the concept of SEO. I have seen like a thousand usernames in forums having the word SEO squeezed in them. I personally have tried my hand in SEO and have actually finished in the top 10 result in a heavily contested SEO contest.(CarCasher, some

If you are looking to market your original content thet you ought to check out the innitiative at Buzzfuse. They will help you market your content by making your content more visible, enhance interaction with your audience and will also provide you with the best reports to understand your consuners.

WidgetBucks is not quite new but is worth a mention as a lot of people seems to be happy with it. Personally it is complementing my Adsense income by atleast $ 50-100 per month. This initiative is owned by the Seattle-based Mpire. Widget bucks is a CPC contextual advertising network (which means that

So we did see a lot of ad networks for 2007, Auction Ads, Widget Bucks and some more. But I guess the conventional is no longer appealing as it still very difficult to generate conversions from these ad networks. One of the new ideas to hit the ad network seen is the Pay Per Play ads and this case the