A question that I have recently received from various Jayde subscribers is how they can change their links in their business’ website listing that is right below the site listing description.

Unfortunately, the site listing links section is not an editable section of any site listing. However, I do have a few suggestions to help your site work around this…

• Create a page that is located in the URL listed by our search engine, and include a JavaScript ReDirect that redirects the user to the page that was intended.
• Implement Search Engine Optimization (commonly known as SEO) into your business’ website. This will help better the appearance, page rank, and position of your site in our search engine along with many others. A good place that I recommend for anything SEO is WebProWorld. This is a great site for SEO questions, and tips to help optimize your site.

 
If you have chosen the SEO route for your website, I can remove your current site listing that is in Jayde so that you may resubmit your new optimized business’ website. Just simply request your site listing to removed on our iEntry Directory Portal Forum in the Site Listing Modifications forum subcategory under the Jayde forum category, and I will gladly help you with this process.

Happy Surfing!

A question that I have been receiving recently is why their site listing link is not displaying on their Jayde Listing Checkup e-mail. This is a very minor technical glitch, and we are currently looking into improving and restoring the links within the e-mail itself.

For those that don’t know about this e-mail that I’m referring to, the ‘Jayde Listing Checkup’ is an e-mail that Jayde will send out to site listing participants on the sixth day after submission to our search engine. This e-mail acts as a receipt to confirm the way your site listing appears within Jayde’s directory.

If your Jayde Listing Checkup e-mail did not include the link to your site listing, and you are unable to find your site listing within Jayde, please let me know by post on our Directory Portal Forum under the Inclusion Issues subcategory within the Jayde category. Just provide the URL of your business’ site that you have submitted to be included within Jayde, and I will do my best to locate it for you.

Also, if you are ever unsatisfied with your site listing, I can always change/update your site listing’s title and/or description for you. Just simply post the desired title or description that you would like visible on your site listing on our Directory Portal Forum under the Site Listing Modifications subcategory within the Jayde category. This is important to us, as we do care about your site listing status, and want your business’ website properly and positively represented within our search engine.

Please let me know if you have any further questions, and happy posting!

Many of you have been asking recently how to change the title and description for your site listing within Jayde, so I have provided a small tutorial on how to achieve this process, and the guidelines for your desired modifications.

To submit the new information for your site listing, it can be done by posting a request in the Directory Portal Forum. Click on the Site Listing Modifications subcategory under the Jayde category, and post a thread stating the following…

• The URL of your site listing in Jayde - it will look like http://www.jayde.com/XXXXXX-mysmallbusiness.html (X = number)
• Desired title for your site listing.
• Desired description for your site listing.

The Title - The maximum length for your site listing’s title is 65 characters (including spaces). Your title should represent your business within 1 sentence / phrase.

The Description - The maximum length for your description is 255 characters (including spaces). Your description should be provided in paragraph form which is better suited for the Search Engine Optimization within Jayde.

If you need guidance on the arrangement of your title and description, or want to know if your requests are within the specified character guidelines, I will be glad to help you. Just simply jump to our forum and ask me within the Site Listing Modifications subcategory under the Jayde category.

Many questions have come in to me recently regarding their URL in Jayde, and why the URL that an individual or company has submitted is different that the URL that is listed within their Jayde site listing. The possible reason for this is because Jayde only accepts top level domains on submission, and anything after the domain suffix (e.g. .com, .net, .biz) will automatically be truncated. I have specified an example below.

On the submit page, when the URL of http://geocities.yahoo.com/mylittlecollectibles is submitted…

It will appear as http://geocities.yahoo.com

The reason for our crawler truncating the remaining section of the URL is that we want the whole site of your business represented well in your site listing, and not just a small portion. Business representation is key in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and we are committed to help your site gain better popularity and clientèle. If you need your site listing URL modified, please let me know in the forum under the Site Listing Modifications subcategory of the Jayde category.

However, this is not a dead end road–we do have a wide collection of niche directories that do cater to URLs that include pages after the domain suffix. A list of these niche directories can be found in our Directory WhitePages found on the left-hand side of this page. Feel free to submit to as many as you would like–there is not any limit.

On a side note
Yesterday (Wednesday, June 18th, 2007) was the official launch of iEntry’s Directory Portal. This site reached approximately 4,500 pageviews, and on behalf of the whole iEntry team, I would like to thank you for stopping by our blog(this page), and our forum. Please feel free to stop by here anytime to get updated on directory news, and support.

As time goes by, business changes, along with the names, trends, and future outlooks of your business. We, at iEntry understand this, and are willing to move with the changes of your business. Whichever directory your site listing is in, such as Jayde, a niche directory like CampusTI / DeepLinked, or a regional directory like EnterUK, we can change the Title and/or Description for you.

To do this, simply go to our forum and click on the category where your site listed is included and post a thread in the subcategory of Site Listing Modifications. Be sure to include the URL of your site listing, along with the Title/Description that you would like to be amended on your specific site listing.

This is also an interesting way to get the word out of your business’ site using our forum. Hope to see you there!

A frequent question that I receive in my inbox from site submitters is “Is my site really there?”, and there a few avenues to the answer of this question which are…

Once you have submitted your site using our directory’s submit form, the process does not stop there. As instructed after you click the “Submit” button, you will receive an e-mail from our company at the e-mail address which you entered on the directory’s submit form. This e-mail from us will include a confirmation link that once triggered, will start the inclusion process of your site in our directory.

When the confirmation link is clicked, and the inclusion process has started, there is a brief waiting period (usually 3-5 days) where your site will be skimmed by our crawler for keywords and phrases to be included for the title, description, and keywords for your site’s listing. The waiting period can vary between the 3-5 days, depending on how many submissions there are, and how large your site is.

After the crawling process has completed, you will receive an e-mail stating that your site listing is active in our directory along with a link to your site listing’s location within the category where you specified for it to be listed. In some cases, the link may not take you directly to your site’s listing, because if the category has an abundance of listings, and is included in a very popular category to submit to, your site listing may move around in the category, but rest assured that your site is included in the specific category.

An easy way to check that your site has been listed in our directory is to use the directory’s quick and easy Searching tool. On the majority of our directories, it is placed right above the “Submit Your Site.” Just simply enter your site’s URL (e.g. joesfishingshoppe.com) into the text box, and then click on the Search button right next to the text box–your link will then automatically appear for you.

Still not seeing your site listing? Let me know in the forum under the “Inclusion Errors” subcategory of the type of directory which you have submitted (Jayde, Niche, or Regional), and I will be glad to help you. See you in the forum!