Have you listed your business at Brownbook.net?
August 21st, 2009 by John Dilbeck
Brownbook.net is a directory where you can list your business for free.
Before today, though, if you wanted to claim your listing, so that only you could edit it, and add more information to it, you’d have to pay a fee.
As of today, however, Brownbook is now TOTALLY FREE.
I recently learned of Brownbook and added a listing for Dilbeck Marketing a few days ago. Today, I claimed the business and started adding more content to the page.
It’s another link to your business and shows up pretty well in the search engines.
Act on your dream!
JD
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September 20th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Terrific, I think Social Media Profiles do the same job as well right? They’re also used to promote Businesses in one way. Anyways this site seems cool and being free, definitely great!
Thanks for sharing.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:55 am
Good morning, S.P.R.E.
Welcome to our discussions.
There are a couple of considerations when it comes to deciding where to link to our various sites.
One concerns real people reading and clicking the link and the other concerns how search engines follow and index the link or totally ignore it.
I agree that social networking profiles do part of the job. Real people may see them and click on the links we provide.
However, most of them use the nofollow attribute in the link and this tells the search engines to ignore the link, don’t follow it, and thus it doesn’t get indexed or counted as a backlink.
I just checked both Twitter and Facebook and both of them use the nofollow attribute.
An easy way to check this is to look at the properties for the link.
With a Mac, hold down the Control key and click the link to see the pop-up menu. Choose properties. It will tell you if there is a nofollow attribute added to the link. If it isn’t used, it won’t be mentioned.
I’m not sure how to do that with a Windows computer. I think you can right-click the link and look at the properties, but I’m not sure. I haven’t touched a Windows computer in a long time.
One of the reasons I wrote about the Brownbook directory is because it does not use the nofollow attribute on the links.
This means that the search engines will follow the link and count it as a backlink to your site.
How important is this?
I’m not really sure. I don’t think it is as important as having good quality information on your site, but if I had my choice of a nofollow link on a very popular site or a “follow” link on a less-popular site, I’d give a bit more weight to the latter.
I don’t spend my time looking for places to add backlinks to my site, but when I’m looking at one I want to see what they do.
Act on your dream!
JD
September 27th, 2009 at 6:38 am
One way backlinks are the key to building your presence online. True if you have a crappy site that is not designed right then this has a bearing on PR ranking. A good mixture of on site optimization and off site optimization is the key to success.
September 27th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Good morning, Gary.
Welcome to our discussions and thanks for the comment.
I agree that backlinks, especially one-way backlinks (as opposed to reciprocal links), are important for building presence and ranking better in the search engines.
I don’t think it is the single or even the main key to it, however.
I still believe that quality, original content is the most important part of the process.
I don’t pay any attention to what Google provides in public in relation to PageRank, however. Perhaps a few years ago, when Google was just becoming dominant, but not now.
I think they use many other criteria for ranking sites other than just PR these days. I’m not sure that what they provide in public as far as pagerank is concerned is the same as they use internally, either.
Now, I’m not saying that anyone has to agree with me on this and I don’t consider myself an expert on the topic, either.
Optimization certainly helps, but I believe original, high-quality content is even more important.
Still, I use a mix of content, links, optimization, and other things in my efforts to rank well and to attract readers to my sites.
I’m not really disagreeing with you, just expanding on what you said with my own viewpoint.
(I shouldn’t be allowed to comment in public before my second cup of coffee! I’m heading that way in just a moment.)
Thanks, again.
Act on your dream!
JD
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 am
Hey John,
Thanks for such a wonderful suggestion.
Brown book seems to be a great tool for getting your business exposed to the right people.
October 5th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Good morning, M.Q.M.
Yes. I think the Brown Book is a good place to link to what we’re offering.
Act on your dream!
JD
November 12th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Thanks for one more site to add to my list of free directories.
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