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		<title>A Directory Association &#8211; Does It Make Sense?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been some discussion lately about setting up a Directory Association.  This would be an organization for directory owners similar to a Bar Association for attorneys &#8211; although on a much smaller scale.
Wait, wasn&#8217;t this discussed before?  Yes it was &#8211; two years ago.  In fact, one such association was indeed set up &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trifecta Rankings Updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a bit over a month since our last post on the ranking of directories using the Trifecta tool by SEOMoz. Here are the updated results, sorted by score (price in brackets):
50 &#8211; 100
94 Dmoz.org (free)
88 Dir.Yahoo.com ($299 per year)
82 Business.com ($299 per year)
59 Bubl.ac.uk (free)
52 Botw.org ($99.95 per year or $249.95)
40 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEOMoz&#8217;s Trifecta &#8211; Used to Rank Quality Directories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July 2006, SEOMoz released their now famous page strength tool.  The idea was to come up with a better metric for evaluating websites than PageRank.  According to Seomoz, the page strength tool was &#8220;a better metric to quickly assess a site / page&#8217;s relative importance and visibility.&#8221;  The page strength tool did indeed do [...]]]></description>
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