Our DMOZ listing for Callender Creates
We havent included the very long address, if you visit this page you will see that we are listed deep in the DMOZ directory.

DMOZ are known, like other directories to feed the search engines like Google with these links. And can increase your incoming links with some value.

DMOZ is and always has been a special case, heres why:

1. It is free to get listed
2. It’s the biggest open directory
3. It is edited by humans>> Humans dont always follow a set pattern. Why one web site maybe listed and another isnt, isnt always clear. The bad press DMOZ gets by some other SEO’s and web types may be due to the amount of emails from people who submit their sites multiples times to DMOZ as well as spam. They are basically up to their necks!

Ways of getting listed in DMOZ

• You can also get links from sites that are already listed there, but that’s not guaranteed.
• Try not to submit again, just be patient, the spiderbots will come when they are ready.

Further reading

Here’s a good article on SEO Chat > Choosing the Right DMOZ Directory Category

.. and which do not?

MSN has been shown to utilize both the keyword and description tags as part of their relevancy score to determine SERPs position.

Yahoo doesn’t use the keyword tags in their relevancy score as far as we can tell lately, but will use the description tag.

Google uses neither keyword or description tags in their relevancy score, and we believe, although this is a definite gray area, that Google disregards both of them in determining overall PageRank.

In the face of the changing search engine optimisation (SEO) industry, those SEOs that rely heavily on their meta keyword and descriptions tags are going to find that more and more they will be fairly disappointed in the effectiveness of optimised keyword and description tags.

In the not too distant future companies have to become aware that “content is king” is becoming more and more true everyday. You can still use MSN to catch your meta descriptions, but do not rely heavily on this for the other search engines.

This is the way that the search engine companies are moving, with this knowledge, at Callender Creates we apply this to our web sites and give you a genuine and ethical position in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

We do not over-optimise our pages, nor do we use black magic to get high listings as this usually means getting penalised by the search engines.

Microsoft has released it’s own version of online maps. Offering a different way of getting the information you require. Try this example of marine parade in Brighton.

The service is free to use, and it has a mix of web 2.0 and Ajax on the site, making it quick to load and easy to navigate around.

We’re sure some companies will find it useful as well as for visitors and tourists to new areas.

Have you ever wondered what your site looks like in othe browsers?

Well, here’s your chance:

Just enter your URL (web address) into any of these web sites, and you get a image of how your web site looks in safari (macintosh) browsers, and also new and recent versions of windows browsers;

• sitevista.com
• browsershots.org
• browsercam.com

A lot of our clients have no problems visuallising what they want from their new web sites, however this tends to be the easy part for them. The tricky part is getting the textual content (body copy) for the web site correct, and often the time alocated for this is underestimated.

Relax, to make this job easier we give you just what you’re looking for over at alistapart >> 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

We found this brilliant Colorblind Web Page Filter on the web and have incorporated this as part of our testing our draft HTML designs, before launching our web sites.

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