List of top rated Blog Directories

I have collected here some top rated blog directories to submit your blogs. Here is the list:

1. All-Blogs.net directory
2. Blog search directory
3. Blog Directory
4. Blogrankings.com a directory of blog sites
5. Romow Web Directory
6. Industry Blogs
7. Ozwebsites Website Directory
   
   
   
   

MSN’s Live Search: An attempt to grab more market share of the search industry.

MSN is trying hard to address the stiff competition in the search sector. Google and Yahoo are still ahead of MSN in this field and giving MSN a hard time. Yahoo has recently launched Yahoo Site Explorer (beta). Microsoft's Live Search, Live.com is up now, in my opinion a bit late.

You are taken directly to Live Search page soon after clicking “Search Web” button on normal MSN Search page. Live search features all the search industry standards such as images, news, video, books, products and feeds. Some sections like video search, QnA, products search and books search are still in beta.

QnA is an interesting feature of Live Search, you can post a question, answer a question and also vote but you need to get registered with a unique nickname.

This service is new and many of its features are still in beta, so a lot to explore yet. Explore Live Search to learn more.

By:

Aftab A. Siddiqui
eMarketing and SEO Consultant
http://www.emarketing-consultants.com

Yahoo Site Explorer: A new Service by Yahoo

Yahoo Search is a popular service on internet which is used by millions of Internet users across the globe every day. Yahoo is also one of the three major search engines on the Internet.

Recently Yahoo has launched a very useful service “Yahoo Site Explorer” for the convenience of Webmasters and SEOs. Although this service is still in beta, but still very helpful to track web sites.

For example if you are a webmaster or a SEO and you have to see that how many pages of your websites are indexed in Yahoo, you use following command in Yahoo search box:

Site:yourdomainname.com

For example if you want to see how many pages of eMarketing-consultants.com are indexed in yahoo, you may type in Yahoo search box:

site:emarketing-consultants.com

Now, if you try this on Yahoo main search page, you will be directed to Yahoo Explorer page. From Yahoo explorer page, you can explore the URL of your web site or you can add your web site for tracking. You can also submit your site feed, webpage and export results to TSV.

In order to add a website for tracking you need to create Yahoo account. Once created Yahoo account you can add as many web sites as possible to your Yahoo account for tracking. After adding your web site, the next step is authentication of web site. The authentication process requires you to upload a txt file with a unique name and containing a string, all supplied by Yahoo for that particular web site. After uploading the file to the root of your web site, you can authenticate the site by just clicking “ready to authenticate” button.

Benefits of Yahoo Site Explorer:

You can track as many web sites as you like through Yahoo Site Explorer. You can explore each and every page of your web site and see the details of inbound links for each and every page of your web site. You can also see the details of all the sub-domains and explore them as mentioned above.

By:
Aftab A. Siddiqui
eMarketing and SEO Consultant
http://www.emarketing-consultants.com

The demand of experienced SEO professionals is mounting in Pakistan

Search Engine Optimization and eMarketing are relatively new concepts for Pakistani marketing professionals and businessmen. Most of Pakistani manufacturers engaged in export business rely only on email marketing to find new international buyers or to promote their products worldwide. They hardly know about Search Engine Marketing and its effective use to promote their products/ services worldwide.

Chillizone Ltd. is the first Search Engine Marketing Company which has taken initiative to spread awareness about Search Engine Marketing among Pakistani business community by hosting a 2-day workshop on Search Engine Marketing in Karachi, Pakistan. Chillizone Ltd. is a Web Marketing agency which is in this business for last four years.

Other SEO companies are now coming to Pakistan, but they are getting SEO projects from abroad as they are not getting SEO clients from Pakistan, they are also getting hard time to get experienced SEOs from the local market. The demand of experienced SEO professionals is mounting in the local market.

Few companies currently hiring or have hired SEOs in the past areas follows:

The Right Solution (TRS), Karachi
Tradekey, Karachi
Sofizar, Lahore
Verticity Pvt. Ltd., Karachi
Ameersoft (Pvt) Ltd., Lahore
Bramerz Pvt. Ltd., Lahore
Software & Web solutions, Lahore
Compete ITSol., Faisalabad
Cyber Kings (pvt) Ltd., Lahore
Allainet, Islamabad

This situation is changing rapidly and now more IT professional, IT and business graduates are getting interested to build their carriers as SEO or Online Marketer. This interest will mount as more SEO and eMarketing companies come to Pakistan and Pakistani businessmen realize the effectiveness of SEO and start using this tool to promote Pakistani products in International market. Chillizone Ltd. is now offering Basic and Advance SEO courses. More information about these courses and online registration is available at:

http://chillizone.com/ctd_seo_courses.asp

Those who are interested in making their carriers in this dynamic field may contact Chillizone Management.

By: Aftab A. Siddiqui
eMarketing and SEO Consultant
http://www.emarketing-consultants.com/