Please note: The information provided in the 58+ pages on this website was written in 2008 and contains old and out-dated information. I will be releasing new updated information soon that will show you how to get around the problems facing most of the web directories online today. So please sign up to the newsletter to get the soon-to-be released update!The directory script I am most familiar with is Indexu from nicecoder.com. Indexu has been around for a long time and luckily today Indexu is more robust than ever and produces lovely static URLs. All SEO’s know static URLs reign king over dynamic URL’s. By static URL’s I mean: yourdomain.com/page.html or yourdomain.com/cat/subcat/etc/ not yourdomain.com/cat-8.php?=session9023498273kl2kd9 etc. [...]
PHPLinkDirectory (PHPLD)
PHPLD as it is referred to is the easiest and cheapest directory script you can get. It currently costs $25 per license, $75 if you want it unbranded. It is simple to set up and has some nice advanced features making it very attractive if you want to set up a directory fast. Using this directory script [...]
PHPMyDirectory (PMD)
PHPmydirectory is a very robust directory script and has a lot of very attractive features. I’ve used this script on several sites. This script is set up to include detail pages for every listing and is mostly for listing businesses. Each detail page allows businesses to include their full details including address, phone #, URL, images, banners and [...]
eSyndicat
I have not personally used eSyndicat yet but it looks like a very robust directory script with an impressive demo. The features parallel those of Indexu’s but it does contain 12 free templates you can use compared to Indexu’s 5 or so as well as many plugins you can purchase to extend the functionality of your [...]
Install any script in minutes
I use SmartFTP to upload script files via FTP. It’s what I’ve always used. Before I learned the technique I am about to show you I was uploading files one by one and with many directory scripts this takes far longer than uploading one file. Once I figured out you can zip up the entire [...]
Content – Categories and Links
A directory just wouldn’t be a directory without categories and links. Most directories are based on Dmoz’s category structure and it’s usually the first place directory owners refer to when gathering categories and even links. There are Dmoz extraction mods and software out there such as Nicecoder’s Dmoz Extractor which will extract the categories and [...]
After Data Extraction
Now you can customize your directory’s template so that it not only looks unique to visitors but also the search engines that will soon spider it. Indexu comes with one main template but they also offer a variety of templates you can download for free that work great (They are in the client area where [...]
Extracting Categories and Links from DMOZ
Yes you will be extracting categories and URLs from Dmoz but you won’t just be scraping the exact same information, you’ll be extracting new meta titles and descriptions for each website so your content will be unique. This single tool was the answer to my prayers when I needed lots of unique content and needed [...]
Content Databases
If you don’t want to go the Dmoz extraction route there are other ways to get content. The easiest way to get content for your directories fast is by purchasing databases and having that info imported into your directory. You can find databases on a large variety of topics and industries. The best place I’ve [...]
Reasons Why You Should Customize Your Template
One of the reasons why you should customize your directory’s template is that you want to make it as unique as possible. This will remove your site’s footprint that search engines might recognize. The more you can customize it the better. The reason you want to change your site’s footprint is that you don’t want [...]
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