Work at Home Mom on Online Directories
Sometimes I get questions from work at home moms who ask me about search engine optimization and online directories. With today’s technology advancement, most of us derive information online opposed from the traditional methods of flipping yellow pages.
Online directories have been around for a long time since the internet began, and without them and search engines we’d have no simple way of navigating through the sites. Today, there are thousands of directories online, which can make it very confusing to determine which are giving you the best quality information. You can search for all kinds of useful information from directories, whether you are searching for medical assistant school or rental apartments.
But the truth is, many online directories are no better than junk as more people try to make money from these directories. Unfortunately, with Google’s AdSense program, it has become very profitable in some cases to put together a directory just so you can run ads on it. Some work at home moms have used these methods to earn some online income. However, you need to know that these sites are automated and not informative or beneficial.
The best directories are the ones edited by dedicated humans, not dedicated servers. That’s because a human being knows what you really need to know, while a computer doesn’t care. Examples of these are Yahoo!, which has a search engine component, but still maintains its directory content; and Dmoz, an open directory run by volunteers that also has pretty good quality content. These directories, and the many quality paid directories that exist, will be around for a very long time.
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