In 2007, alot happened in the world of search engine marketing. Several strategies were born and met their fate last year. Some of these strategies were eighty-sixed because they provided unfair leverage within the search engines and made websites appear to be of more worth than they were.

1. Directory Links – Google pretty much stripped away all the value gained from one-way and reciprocal links that were achieved by directory submissions. PageRank dropped, and so did link value. Now, directory listings are close to good for nothing.

2. Reciprocal Links – Anyone who actively pursued link exchanges as their main source of backlinks felt the wrath of Google as they stripped PageRank of websites who did not have a good ratio of reciprocal links to one way natural links.

3. Text Link Brokers – Companies like Text Link Ads thought they were going to be the next big hit, but as they were starting to grow, their very foundations were shook when Google applied penalties to the SERP’s of many websites. Now text link brokers have gone underground, and carefully swap their goods in 2008.

4. Sponsored Blog Posts – Many websites who were using sites like Smorty, ReviewMe, and PayPerPost as a main way to drive revenue to their blog experienced PageRank and search engine ranking position penalties as well, now bloggers using these paid to post networks have to disguise their paid blog posts to look more legitimate to search engines.

5. Subdomain Supremacy – Many networks (and also spam blogs) utilized this handy SEO technique to leverage search engine spiders’ mechanics by adding many keyword rich subdomains onto the main domain. Google swiftly amended this problem by allowing no more than two subdomain results from a single domain to appear in the search results for a given keyword. This hasn’t fully been worked out as some search queries still return more than that.

In relation to my recent post about FeedStub, my recently created automated RSS feed directory submitter, I’ve started compiling a bigger list of RSS feed directories that only require you to enter a URL by itself and you are able to submit your feed for review or addition, without entering a category, e-mail address, or captcha. I’ve sorted them into ascending order for you.

• http://ngoid.sourceforge.net/sub_rss.php
• http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
• http://www.feed24.com/?c=add
• http://www.feedbase.net/Add.php
• http://www.feedest.com/feedAdd.cfm
• http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html
• http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
• http://www.goldenfeed.com/AddFeed.aspx
• http://www.morenews.be/voegbrontoe.php
• http://www.octora.com/add_rss.php
• http://www.pingomatic.com/
• http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
• http://www.pressradar.com/suggest
• http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
• http://www.rss-spider.com/submit.php
• http://www.rssfeeds.com/suggest_wizzard.php
• http://www.search4rss.com/?add=default

Enjoy, and expect to see more of these coming to FeedStub soon!

I’m currently developing a semi-automated RSS Feed Directory submitter, similar to the RSS Submit program that I posted about previously.

My RSS Feed Directory automation tool is web based, and so will be easily updated for new directories (as well as dead directories) and functions. This also means you don’t need to download any updates, it’s all done on this end.

Best of all it is 100% free and available to the public! So mosey on down and check out FeedStub now!

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RSS Submit is an awesome tool that lets you manage submissions to tons of various RSS Feed Directories. It automates the submissions to many of the feed directories, but also offers many other directories you are able to submit to semi-automatically.

Use RSS Submit to your advantage if you regularly publish your RSS feeds, these directories will provide quick indexing to your websites, and hopefully a couple subscribers.

Download RSS Submit 2.36.

568 non-reciprocal directories just waiting to link to your website. : ) Make sure it matches your niche, though!

Free Non-Reciprocal Directory List

Mmm, so my latest project is well under way. An experiment in design, development, seo, and monetization. I’ve never set on a mission to make a directory-based site .. in the past I’ve only used directories as a service to addon to websites I already had developed and had been maintaining for some time.

So, here before you, is the FLRT Web Directory … what do you think?