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Directory Submitter Review

February 25th, 2009
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Website Directory Submission

You may or may not know that Website Directory Submission is quickly becoming
a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website.

These kind of links are exactly what the search engines are looking for. The
websites with more quality, one way links are typically the sites that rank
the highest, period.

With that said, there are several websites dircetory submission programs on
the market. The best and easiest to use is a new program created by Brad Callen,
called Directory Submitter.

The software currently contains around 1700 website directories, all free.
It is the most straightforward program that we’ve come across, in that all you
need to do is:

1. Input your website details (i.e. title, description, URL, etc.) into the
software

2. Click on the directory you want to submit to

And then the program will automatically fill in your website details. Then,
you simply click the submit button and your website is instantly submitted to
the directory. Then, you can move to the next directory, go through the list,
and by the time you’re finished you’ll have roughly 1500 one way links pointing
to your website.

I can’t think of an easier way to get links. Of course, if you’re going to
get links this quickly, it’s important to vary your website title (anchor text)
every 20-30 links or so, to make things look more natural to the search engines.

You can do this very easily via Directory
Submitter when you create your project in the beginning.

The software is constantly being updated and their is an incredible community
of users established that all work together to make the software better and
better, so you know you’re getting great value for the money.

To check out the software, go here:

D & D Media Group Recommends Directory Submitter

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Goodbye 2008!

January 22nd, 2009
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Wow, what a rollercoaster ride 2008 was; in so many ways. The world faced the biggest financial crisis most of us have ever seen in our lives, the balance of power in the world shifted significantly and fuel prices both had an all time high and a 5 year low in the same year. Crazy times. And I think we haven’t seen the end of it yet.

It’s hard to analyse what the exact effect of all of this is on our own industry. If you look at TechCrunch’s layoff tracker, it is clear that IT was not left unaffected. Several companies that are close to the PHP community have seen layoffs: SUN, current owner of MySQL, laid off about 5000 jobs; Yahoo, the biggest PHP user on the planet, laid off 1500 and even Zend was troubled by layoffs this year.

Yet, talking to the community and looking at our own customers leads me to believe that so far, the PHP ecosystem is less affected than other industries. Many PHP shops are still searching for PHP developers (yeah, so are we), and many companies I talk to tell me that, while some of their customers have become more cautious in their spending, there is still enough demand for PHP projects.

One reason for this might be that PHP is still in a place where demand outnumbers supply. Even if demand is reduced significantly based on the current economic climate, there still aren’t enough PHP developers to meet that demand.

Another reason is that in times of economic downturn, companies start looking at cost effectiveness and become more aware of what they spend their money on. After the internet bubble, in the first years of this century, we had a similar situation and we noticed that back then that people started turning to open source solutions. PHP can benefit from a trend like that. Not only is PHP very cost efficient (no license cost, and quick time to market), the web in general can help companies streamline their business processes and become more efficient. Finally, within the PHP community there’s a focus on efficiency as well: with a rise in the use of frameworks (I’ll talk about the ‘cms to framework’ shift I see happening some other time), a focus on code quality, PHP’s ‘getting things done’ mentality and the end-of-life of PHP4, PHP is strengthening its position as the right choice for web development.

For us at Ibuildings, our commitment to stick to PHP for web development has helped us grow about 40% this year, despite the economic situation; which strengthens my belief that we’re in the right business and have chosen the right language. So I owe a big thank you to every member of the PHP community! (And with the Center of Expertise we’ll be launching early next year, we’ll try to give something back.)

It is still early to say how 2009 will affect us all, but let’s hope that we’ve seen the worst of the economic crisis and that in 2009, things will start to look better for everyone.

I wanted to end this post with a number of PHP highlights in 2008; but keep an eye on my favourite source for PHP news, phpdeveloper.org, I’m sure people more qualified than me will write excellent 2008 lookbacks. :-)

Posted by Ivo Jansch
CTO
Ivo is the CTO of Ibuildings. He implements company strategy regarding tools, technology and development processes. Ivo is the contact for several key customers and partners, and a regular speaker at conferences.

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