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Archive for November, 2006

What Really Happened to DMOZ

Posted by Nadir on November 29th, 2006

As some of you may have noticed, submitting a site to DMOZ has been impossible for almost a month, apparently since October 23rd. The world’s biggest human-edited directory’s servers crashed, and all the pages that you’re able to see right now are static pages coming from their backup.

The End of Microsoft bCentral Directory

Posted by Nadir on November 27th, 2006

If you try to submit your website to Microsoft bCentral Small Business Directory, you’ll get a message that may disappoint you:

Danny Sullivan To Launch New SEO Blog

Posted by Nadir on November 16th, 2006

I just heard that Danny Sullivan is about to launch his own SEO Blog called Search Engine Land. He’ll team up with his buddies Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz to provide information about the search marketing industry. The blog will officially launch december 11th and you can already know what you’ll get once it’s up […]

Text Link Ads Acquired by MediaWhiz, Offering New Services

Posted by Nadir on November 7th, 2006

Today, the famous text link advertising company Text Link Ads announced that it has been acquired by MediaWhiz. According to TLA owner, Patrick Gavin, this change will allow advertisers to have new ways to drive traffic and sales thanks to email marketing, CPA offers, CPM displays ads etc.

Research Beyond Google

Posted by Nadir on November 1st, 2006

Many people don’t really realize it, but only a small part of the world information is indexed in Google. Furthermore, people start realizing that some of the results displayed in the search engines’ results do not always satisfy them.