Cre8tive Flow

What caught one member’s attention was the discovery that several web sites that WERE in DMOZ (Open Directory Project) are no longer there. What happened?

Turns out he’s not alone. So the next question is whether or not it even matters anymore. If dropped, there is rarely a human on board that can help. And, to get a site added is just about impossible. No one seems to be on deck. Google’s directory results from DMOZ are different, so one wonders if they’re even updated at all.

What have you decided? Do you bother with DMOZ? Are you finding your sites are de-listed?

It’s a fantasy gone real…3 big name search engines establish unity and agreement on how to handle duplicate content.

Major Search Engines Agree On New Canonical Tag tells the tale.

A discussion broke out in Cre8asiteforums called Bruce Clay Interview Video: He says “ranking is dead”, in which a moderator, after watching the video 3 times, declared it to be “…the most important video that you can watch to get some idea of where SEO and webmastering in general is going.”

Watch it and weigh in here!

Spring means rebirth. At Cre8asiteforums, in celebration of any excuse to celebrate, we focused on “green marketing” this week in honor of Earth Day. Testing interest by the Cre8tive Community and web site owners of earth-people-friendly web sites has been fascinating.

We made some new friends and opened our doors to those who feel strongly about making positive contributions to the planet and people. Since the forums are about web site development, it made sense to showcase web sites that wanted to take advantage of our relaxed promotion rules by submitting their web site to the Cre8Green Directory.

Google officially stated the other day that they’ll be crawling through HTML forms. It’s an interesting move — their stated goal is to increase their coverage of the web by adding this new aspect to their crawling. I’ll note right away that this is not an immediate general addition to their crawling practices:

Only a small number of particularly useful sites receive this treatment, and our crawl agent, the ever-friendly Googlebot, always adheres to robots.txt, nofollow, and noindex directives. Google Webmaster Central Blog