Well, this morning, I received a rather disturbing email. It has only 1 line and nothing else. The sender is VIGNESWARI RAMACHANDRAN and it reads “i want a job urgently . please help”.

Now that’s creepy. The email is from my business directory’s contact form and this directory has nothing to do with employment or jobs, but yet someone emailed me to help them find a job. And the funny thing he provided no information on what he is interested in, his qualifications and his location. Or maybe he is asking me for a job? Any of you go around web directories and ask them for jobs? If you do, please tell me which web directory replied and what did they say.  I mean I don’t really expect people to do to small business directories and start looking for a job by contacting the sales department. What happened to the traditional venues where people go look for employment?

Done the screenshot preview of the latest version of Phplinkdirectory. Please note that this is not an actual review of the features, I am sure that there are more additional features than what I have shown. You need to try it out yourself if you want to fully understand the power of this script.

I am sure that a lot of people don’t know that there is an SEO benefit in having good quality outgoing links from your site. Although it is rather hard to proof it, but I believe that outgoing links can be very useful for Search Engines to understand what your site (or page) is all about. And it acts like a neighbourhood/community thing. I believe that good outbound links act as a source of information for your visitors, thus the importance of outbound links should not be forgotten.

Of course, this means that you should make sure the page you are linking to is useful to your viewers and the information related to your page.

Check out this in-house article: Telling Search Engines what your page is all about -Outgoing Links. This article is actually a re-write of an old article: Outgoing Links - Go for It!

This release caught me by surprise. I didn’t expect it to be released so soon. David must be really pushing this new version out like mad. You can read more on the changlog for verison 3.20 here. I think I will be doing a little review of this script’s new features later on. Maybe post a few screenshots of it as well. I am using PhpLinkDirectory for all my directories, including the Authority Sites Directory and the High PageRank Sites Directory. I find it suitable for my use and it’s very easy to setup and install. Further, it is very popular and thus you can find a lot of mods available for it. Some you can even get it for free. Oh, I forgot to mention the numerous templates available too.

And, we have another one of those interesting websites to introduce to you. It’s the weird and whacky Space Adventures! Err…. this site is talking about Space Tourism, yes, that’s right, rich folks just find that bungee jumping is not exciting enough! They need to walk in Zero gravity or visit the International Space Station to get their kicks. Maybe in the near future, only the poor will live on Earth, the rich will be floating all about in some space station somewhere and get attacked/blasted by Aliens irritated by their constant whining about how their ugly spaceships are blocking their scenic view of the cosmos. It’s too bad that when Aliens first met humans, they will only see the worse of mankind. Hope we won’t be invaded by Aliens anytime soon.

Very nice, somebody (kiviniar from v7n) blogged about our directory scripts list. Hooray!!! Will I become famous? Na, not very likely, but I will take any backlink that comes my way. And it is much better than blogging and boasting about my own article.

You can view the blog post here: Directory Trials.  Directory Trials is a blog about directories, currently the newest craze on the Internet. Everyone owns a directory now. Only the uncool ones don’t have a directory. So if you want to join the cool kids, you need a directory and what better way to get you started is with our directory scripts list?? Choose the perfect directory script and start laughing at others without a directory.

Found another very interesting site. It’s Incredible Adventures. What this site does is to provide you with the means to search for the ultimate adventure of your lifetime. You can fly a Fighter Jet, go for space training in zero gravity, go look for sharks in the deep sea and even go for Special Operations!

Crazy right? Some people will just go to the ends of the world to look for thrills. Yes, usually rich and crazy people. For me, I just look for some cheap thrills, like shocking myself with my electric toothbrush.

Link Vendor! Don’t let the name confuse you, it is not a site selling links. More of an SEO tool site. And I have been using it for a while now. One of the nicest and coolest tool is the Visual PageRank tool. It allows you to see all the PageRank of every link on a certain page so that you won’t need to go and manually check each link yourself. A time-saver. I have been using their service to check all my webpages.

Of course, that is only one of the dozen of tools they have. All the tools on the site is free. Only problem is it requires you to do an image verification everytime you need to use a tool. Can be a bit tedious if you ask me.

Visit: Link Vendor

Yes, there is indeed a very cool Authority Status Site called, wait for it…….PayPal Sucks! I am serious, this site is given the “authority site” status by Google. I wonder how many people searched for the term “PayPal Sucks” for it to get the status? And poor PayPal….a lot of users pissed off with PayPal will have a field day with our great Google Search Engine who supplied them with information to take on the online merchant.

Oh by the way, Google has an payment alternative to PayPal called Google Checkout. Yes, it is a direct competitor to PayPal and is supported by Yahoo and ebay. Yes, and if you never heard of Google Check, it is because it is not a popular choice. There are many better online payment merchants out there. And Google came in very late in the game, so the market is already occupied by several big merchant services. Anyway, I doubt that Google is very serious in this online merchant gig as there is very little advertisement or promotion on Google Checkout. If they were serious, you would have heard about it long time ago.

Oh, and I am not suggesting anything, but it is best to run far far away when the big boys come to play. Especially when they play with fish.

I have complied a list of directory scripts and sample sites that are using those scripts.

You can find it here: Complete List of Directory Scripts

If you have any scripts to add or you found some mistakes in the list, please inform me. Or if you have any comments on this or that script, please contact me as well. I would like to hear comments from actual users of the scripts.

We have a new design for the Autho-Rity Blog! I have spent several days of designing and coding to get it to what you see now. I have also hired some of the greatest graphic designers to make that beautiful logo you are seeing now.

Ok ok, who am I kidding? I had some problems with the wordpress script (cannot access the achieved posts), so I have to remove the old files and reupload them. But I will be changing to another theme later, so I have used the default wordpress first. Sorry. If you find anything wrong with this site, please tell me so that I can solve it.