 One of the biggest things you can do to begin the web marketing of your site is to register it at dmoz.org - The Open Directory Project. The largest human administrated database of Web sites in the world.
The Internet Brain - The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others. If you want people to find your site you must do this, for the long-haul.
And if you are not listed on DMOZ, you're really missing the boat. For your own benefit and happiness go here immediately and register your site(s).
Our taoslink.com database says that there are about 1700 genuine taos-based Web sites. DMOZ has only 228 sites listed. Taoslnk.com actually hunts for genuine Taos Web sites, whereas the DMOZ just sits there like Jaba the Hut - with 4,000,000 Web sites, over 74,000 editors and over 590,000 categories. So it looks like the site owners and webmasters of Taos are overlooking one of the most important assets for all of us.  The InterNet Brain Be sure you read the DMOZ submission guidelines - Just navigate to the section where the link would logically be (i. e., restaurants in "restaurants") and submit your Taos Web site URL. This is a plea for Taos sites and Taos webmasters to get on the ball and make sure you plug your sites into The Web properly.
Also interesting is this :
In looking at the links above, what's interesting is that list in these search results there are genuine Taos sites and there are sites using the Taos keyword to redirect traffic away from actualTaos to somebody else's scheme. The hotels.com site is one of the schemes, but there are a lot. These big companies don't give a crap about you or your site or your business or our community. They don't care about my businesses either. And that's the reason that you nee to register with DMOZ. So we can defend our town and our livelihood in a never ending sort-of war for Taos territory on the Web. More reports about that Web war later, I guess. For now: Don't be dumb, Register! DMOZ DMOZ.org is mandatory
by J. R. Ransom - taosmultimedia.com |
