SEO For The Common Webmaster

I recently sold off the directory I started. It was becoming very successful but was also attacked with a bunch of spam. I found myself not able to keep up with approving links and deleting spam ones. I found that the amount of time was more than I wanted to spend.

I did some good promotion on the directory and made a small profit. I have learned though to stick to what I do best and that is blogging. I love to blog, I make a little money at it and it is fun. I have seven blogs so that is enough to keep me busy when I am Online.

I am curious, how many of you enjoy owning a directory? Is it fun or just for money?

Just wanted to leave a quick post to let anyone who tries to reach me or needs something, I am leaving on Sunday August 17th and will not be back until Sunday August 24th. My wife and I have rented a cabin in the Adirondacks and we will not have Internet access.

I hope you all enjoy your week and if you wish to leave a message from here on my contact form or through the normal ways you have been dealing contacting me, I will get back to you as soon as I get back.

I know that I am not the end all to be all for SEO. I am always learning along with the rest of you. Here is your opportunity to share what you know.

If you have a great SEO strategy or wish to share some great tips for search engine optimization. Please leave a comment on this post to share with other readers.

As always, thank you for making my blog part of your life!

I wrote a post a while back that this blog got listed on DMOZ directory. I was looking around a last week and I found out I was removed from the listings. I just received an email from one of my loyal readers and they said, did you see you are now listed again on DMOZ. I thought it was a joke so I went and checked and sure enough, I am back on. I am listed here.

I am not sure what is going on over there because it seems off and on. I hope this time it remains. I am very curious of the long term benefit that the listing will have. I will report back in a few months of any benefit from it.

Anybody have their site listed then removed then listed again?

I posted a while back that my humble blog got listed on DMOZ. I thought it was cool and maybe I could get some benefits. However, I checked yesterday and it was no longer in their directory. I am not sure what is up with that it restores my opinion that DMOZ sucks. They use to be the end all to be all for web directories but now they offer very little benefits for the hassle to list with them.

Just to navigate their massive categories will give any webmaster a headache. I received 5 visits in over a month from their directory and maybe that was their editors.  Oh well, I guess I really did not  need them anyway.

What is your opinion of DMOZ?