Online directories let people discover a scary amount of private information about you simply by entering your name, location, and/or telephone number in their search boxes. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Last night a post from the DMOZ blog titled R-E-S-P-E-C-T for DMOZ caught my eye. As I read through it, I felt for the old Open Directory Project (aka dmoz.org). Let me just quote the first line: ...

Three software giants are set to launch a long-anticipated Web directory that will allow companies to find one another and conduct business online. Microsoft, IBM and Ariba, which built a test version ...

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who launched a business web directory in the Netherlands complaining his ranking is really poor. As you know, less than a year ago, Google began removing ...

For years on SEJ we’ve been a proponent of listing sites web directories as a form of traditional organic link building. And over these years many web directories have come and gone. As linking gets ...

As use of the Internet grew during the 1990s, various analysts and scholars came to note its apparent increased emphasis on commercial content. (Lessig, Nesson) Relative to the Internet's 1980s ...

Google's John Mueller said that generally, web directories do not help with SEO or rankings. Google has said in the past that directories aren't the right way to build links to your site and then ...

There’s no question people get most of their information online these days. But, did you know people are also searching for local businesses just as much as they look up answers for what ails them? A ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “I want to get my website listed on DMOZ. Can your company help?” This is a question my digital consulting agency receives multiple times ...