Ok... Glad everyone got that out of their system, now back to the main/original question... What are some of the better diretories to get listed in/on...

Please take a look at these two examples and let me know if you think these are "high quality"...

http://www.directorybin.com/

http://www.worldsiteindex.com

Awaiting your feedback, Thanks!

Hello,

I'm looking for a list of the best, most trusted, SEO friendly directories to list my company on.

Can you guys please provide some directories that you have seen help increase your rankings and also drive targeted traffic?

No Black Hat directories, only high quality ones.

Thanks!

ok, if you say so... Thanks for the help.

Chris,

If YouTube links being no-followed is the reason then why do other sites show backlinks from Youtube and why do some of my own backlinks say "no-follow" next to them in OSE?

Anyone else have any ideas?

Hello,

I am looking through my backlinks in OSE and i have noticed that there are no inbound links from YouTube.  I absolutely have a Youtube account that has links to my social profiles as well as my website, and all of my videos have links to inner pages of my site.  Still, no links shown from Youtube.

Here is my YouTube page, http://www.youtube.com/user/simplastics ... Any idea why I don't see any inbound links from either my profile page or the individual videos?

Thanks!

Good Morning...

I am trying to clean up my e-commerce site and i created a lot of new categories for my parts...

I've made the old category pages (which have had their content removed) "hidden" to anyone who visits the site and starts browsing.  The only way you could get to those "hidden" pages is either by knowing the URLS that I used to use or if for some reason one of them is spidering in Google.

Since I'm trying to clean up the site and get rid of any duplicate content issues, would i be better served by adding those "hidden" pages that don't have much or any content to the Robots.txt file or should i just De-activate them so now even if you type the old URL you will get a 404 page...

In this case, are 404 pages bad?  You're typically not going to find those pages in the SERPS so the only way you'd land on these 404 pages is to know the old url i was using that has been disabled.

Please let me know if you guys think i should be 404'ing them or adding them to Robots.txt

Thanks

You are not alone... I could literally write that entire post about my company/site as well... Only difference is I am being outranked by Target and Walmart after i held the #1 position for years.

I know you are looking for advice, and this isn't advice, just want you to know you are not alone in this mess