Radu Antohi.com

You see every day, people all over the planet are searching for different things on the internet, and rather than trying to advertise your new, great sounding site name to them, just use what they are searching for the most.

If your site sold winter clothes and someone wants to buy fish food, do you think they will type “winterforeveryone.com” into their browser, no, they type winter clothes, so wouldn’t it make sense to have the domain name “winterclothes.com.

Having your main keywords in the domain name is also SE friendly and could deliver a better ranking for your website.

It would also be an idea to combine your unique name, for example “meho” and the word that is part of what your site offers. For example “mehoclothes.com”. That makes sense too.

My suggestion on how to pick a good domain name is the following:

nounnoun.com

uniquenamenouncom

verbkeyword.com

pronounnoun.com

nounpronoun.com

It also comes to domain extension, or commonly known as TLD. Probably the best idea is choosing a .com. If you’re not selling anything or your site is simply caritable, then it will be more user-friendly to use a .org. But I would recommend never using a .info or a .biz.

Either use a .com is your name is available, .org if you don’t sell anything, .countrycode if you are a local based company or you are the market leader for the certain niche of the site in your country, and use .net when your .com isn’t available

I have compiled a list of tips which really helped the ranking of my blog.

- Unique content. Search engines love unique content, especially when it is frequently updated. Unique content and updating your blog frequently will make your visitors and the se robots return again :).

- Permalinks. I recommend using this type of mod_rewrite. htt://yourdomain/category/post name. This is very SE friendly

- Outgoing links Have at least as possible outgoing links. This will give your site a maximal exposure for the robot that visits it.

- Ingoing links The anchor text of the ingoing links is very important. When submitting to a directory, instead of writing as title “My blog” write “Internet Marketing Blog” or “SEO Blog“. You will surely rank for “your blog”, but giving important keywords in the title can raise your se position for those keyphrases

- No sitewide links Do not put sitewide blogroll links. This will really hurt your site indexing, because the robot, instead of indexing your page will jump to the other one.

I hope this small tutorial will really improve the ranking of your blog.

Aviva directory is probably one of the strongest directories ever present in the directory market. It offers fast reviews, with affordable pricings, and a great backlink. It still has many inner pr pages and over 12,000 indexed pages by google.

But unfortunatelly, after its recent drop in google for the keywords, it gets attacked more and more.

Annie, a dmoz editor who worked for Jeff (owned of aviva directory) was recently fired for copying content from other related sites. Wanting to revenge, she and her husband announced that Jeff has actually “scammed” them by not replying to PM’s. After Jeff fired her, Aviva Directory has strangely dissappeared from dmoz. That’s an “unexpected ” coincidence! Anyway, Jeff has provided enough proof that she actually did copy the content from other directories.

But most didn’t understand (but saw that its copied descriptions, so thought that it was Jeff who was copying the content from the directory annie was copying it from). On digitalpoint someone “wisely” told that Jeff is actually a QBC (quick buck crew members, scammers which are online to earn a fast buck then dissappear). Here’s the thread about it. Even the title of the thread sounds funny. I mean, one of the most powerful directories, with such a big financial back-end support, a QBC?!

Aviva has recently updated their guidelines. And in those guidelines, not all sites present in the directory fit them. So, Jeff kindly refunded the owners, and told that they don’t meet their new guidelines. That sounds almost stupid! How can someone refund a review fee, because that’s what Jeff actually. It’s same like giving 40$ (or what it costs to be listed in aviva) for free. That’s what I called an honorable and fair man!

There is only one thing that bothers me more among all bad told of Aviva. The only that is true. The fact that it doesn’t appear on the pages when writing “aviva directory” or “aviva web directory”. But that doesn’t mean at all that aviva is de-indexed from google, like most of the webmasters claim. It means that rankings fell for the certain keywords. It happened before, even to me, but it got back re established, and even better (read my previous post about it). So don’t worry, the directory market isn’t hit. It’s just an algorithm glitch IMO. Because there is no perfect algorithm. Besides, google last crawled aviva on september 6th (I personally checked it), so most likely that in the next crawl aviva will get back its rankings.

So don’t believe all these rumors about Aviva, Jeff or generally web directories.

The web directory market is still alive, and will be, and Aviva is still one of the best, and will be.

Seems like some rankings were updated recently in google. And everything is pretty amazing. here are the results for my sites:

www.whmtalk.com - On the first page when typing in google “web hosting talk”, number 1 in google when typing “web hosting management talk” (my primary keyphrase)

www.raduantohi.com (this blog) - the 3rd in google when typing “internet experiences”. That’s hot considering this blog is barely one week old.

www.gamingtype.com - Number 3 when typing in google “gaming web directory”. But I’m pretty sure google didnt update this one

www.bidfortop.com - On first page when typing in “bidding directory” in google. That’s hot, gets alot of trafficf rom that.

www.cheatwow.net - FIRST page when writing “free world of warcraft exploits” and “free wow exploits” “free wow hacks” “free world of warcraft hacks” . I’m getting ALOT of traffic from that, over 250 visits/daily from those 2 keyphrases.

www.myspacepresto.com - 4th on google upon writing “myspace directoy”

If there will be any updates in my favour I will post. Notice, there happened now Google Pagerank Update.