EatonWeb calculates the strength of your blog based on a number of factors. To get the most radical improvement in score, start with these three tips: Build links into your individual blog posts. You can do this by participating in blog carnivals, submitting to Digg/Reddit/Netscape, and interacting with other bloggers Update your blog at least…
I want to show you one of the coolest features of the new EatonWeb. As you may or may not not know, Google’s PageRank metric is hugely popular but does very little to differentiate between sites that have the same PageRank. On top of this, it shows some sites that are clearly less important, as…
Just a quick note: because of the flood of submissions we’ve received since announcing our launch, EatonWeb is running on an 8-9 day backlog of submissions. Please be patient and we’ll get to your blog as soon as possible! Our goal is to make this THE BEST blog directory on the planet, and to do…
For the time being, we are not able to consider blogs for our directory unless they are written in English. Part of the process of keeping our directory high quality requires that we read and analyze your blog. Right now, we are not able to analyze non-English sites. However, we are working on a solution…
At the EatonWeb Blog we tell you why directories still matter. We discuss the inner workings of the EatonWeb Blog directory along with strategies and tips for SEO and directory submission. It’s our belief that directories still matter, and we’re here to tell you why.
EatonWeb has brought together over 20 different factors that we believer are indicators of a blog’s strength and wrapped them all up into a single metric. Factors that we consider include technorati data, Google PageRank, the ratio of links to a site’s homepage as opposed to its deep links (we believe that there is a…
Absolutely not! The key is to find directories that matter. So how do you know whether a directory matters or not? Well, it’s pretty easy. The next time you visit a directory, ask yourself whether the directory provides useful information, or whether it exists as just another link farm. SEO is a big business and…
When we started redesigning EatonWeb, our goal was to bring directories and directory submission out of the dark ages. Any decent SEO knows that by and large, directory submission has fallen out of favor. But why? There’s a simple reason. Most directories don’t contribute anything to the web. Most directories are link farms. So how…
Eatonweb is in the process of restoring itself as a premier resource for blog owners. While we can’t reveal all the good stuff that we have in store, we would like to tell you a little about our plans. We want Eatonweb to be a resource that helps bloggers become more productive and more effective.…