Have you heard about the SeekOn Web directory? It’s a small, niche directory that never became as popular as the great directories like Yahoo! and Open Directory Project. There are literally thousands of small directories like SeekOn that help smaller, less well-known Web sites attract visitors who are seeking information they cannot find in the major search engines. Web marketing has forgotten to cultivate strong listings in Web directories because major search engines can boast so many more visitors than small directories.

But truth be told you may find that a few dozen small directory listings will send you as much traffic as one large search engine. Why is that? Because people don’t just use major search engines to find great Web content. So if you have some time on your hands and you’re looking for new ways to promote your Web site, try submitting to a few general purpose or industry directories you may never have heard of before.

Another interesting small directory you might not know about is Fresh TV. It doesn’t have to be a major brand directory because people are searching these small directories every day. You should try collecting a list of a dozen or so small directories and use them to find Web sites like your own. When you know a small active directory cannot provide searchers with relevant content like yours, you should submit your site and see what happens. But be careful. Some Web directories collect email addresses so they can send marketing offers to people. Make sure you’re looking at a real directory by comparing its archive.org copies to see how much growth the directory has had.

A good directory should have a few links pointing to it. But if you grow frustrated with these small directories you have the option of creating your own. You can easily set up a business directory using free hosting services or free software you download from the Web. Just because you don’t know nothing about birthing no Web directories doesn’t mean you cannot build a few to help you and your friends find and remember some great sites.

Forming a show with a multiple listing of bands can prove to be difficult when finding the proper mesh of attendees. After all as tradition will tell you, you can’t please everybody. So often there are those vehemently angered, testosterone saturated behemoths that decide that they will attend the show regardless for one band though they hate all the others. Now talk about ruining the experience for everybody. You would think that most would educate themselves before the house. You make sure you know where you’re going, what time you need to be there, what you’re going to wear, if you’re going to stop for a bite to eat before, but apparently the thought of checking who else is on the bill is entirely irrelevant, and the instantaneous remedy is to merely ruin the experience for all others around you.

Imagine for example that you’re going to a concert in the IE. Now larger events can expectedly have a great deal of money invested in them. If promoters are keeping the buzz alive, big names are on the marquee, and an Inland Empire web design firm was employed to build a promotional site, you can probably count on the intended experience to be a success. Now imagine some jerk in the crowd punching people and ogling the acts on stage. Not only are they plainly put annoying as all else, but they are also cheapening the experience for patrons that invested their time and money attending. Next time they would be better off staying home and allowing others to get their money’s worth rather than putting up with the guy who won’t shut up.

What if we could defeat SPAM? What if no one could hijack a Zombie Computer? What if SPAM did not come from half way around the world? What if SPAM did not take up so much of our bandwidth?

What if no one tried to sell us junk we did not want? What if SPAM was actually targeted, such as not sending male items to females or denture ads to teenagers?

What if the Federal Trade Commission had better tools to get these people? What if it did not take years to define SPAM? What if the CAN SPAM Act was not taken as a challenge by perpetrators?

What if we no one invented SPIT (SPAM over IP Telephony) which threatens to disrupt VoIP? What if no one used SPAM to try to steal someone’s identity? What if Phishing did not exist thru SPAM? What if we were not asking today what to do about Pharming?

What if the Viagra Spammers knew that you just have never had a problem getting it up? What Chinese Spammers did not send SPAM with a bunch of symbols you cannot read and could care less what they say? What if SPAM just went away?

What if you had back the time you wasted on sifting thru the SPAM? What if you could send the SPAM back times 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000? What if you could fight back, what then? Why do people send SPAM and why do you hate it so much?

What if the real Spam or ham in a can could sue all of them for hurting their brand name? Ah, yes what if…What if We Stopped SPAM?

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