Erbsman-Holding.com

Well, I have to tell you: I am very proud about one of my projects that got listet by google for a very strong keyword. I am just number 39 for Pizza in Germany but the domain is moving forwards by herself. I am not doing anything. One of my theses, that google is getting more able to distinguish good from bad content seems to be fullfilled. The domain has exellent content about Pizza, the history of Pizza and how to make a good Pizza. I just placed a couple of links to the domain and I saw that some newsgroups are starting to link to domain just because it has the best content about the history of Pizza.

Well there is nothing more to say: the domain still has Page Rank 0:

Just got a mail from Andy describing her Swiss Gift shop. It’s not that Andy has a shop for Swiss gifts she has an online gift shop in from Switzerland and provides all kind of gifts, or rather “Geschenkideen”. In modern times it is more and more difficult to buy gifts for friends and I guess there is still a need for real gifts. I got tons of virtual gift cards for my birthday and I was happy with them. But the wonderful Comic that my father sent me made me really happy, just a real gift!

If you are searching on real gifts for your friends and family, regardless whether you are looking for birthday gifts (Geburtstagsgeschenke) or Christmas gifts (Weihnachtsgeschenke) just check out Andys shopping land! You can surpirse your friends with real German gifts and Swiss gifts.

Don’t speak German and don’t know how to order German gifts? No problem, just check the impressum on the site and write a mail to Andy. She will help you finding Swiss gifts.

When it comes up to directories there are many different opinions. Some guys say it’s not worth the effort, some placed their sites on hundreds of directories.

I believe that an entry in an nice directory is always worth the effort or a back link, but the Directory regardless whether its a German Directory or a Directory from the US must fulfill the basic requirements:

- the link must be on an indexed page

- the link should be permanent on the given page

And this is where the trouble begins!

Many German Web catalogs have hundreds of banned pages. I guess that the pages where banned from the index on behalf of double content. Especially German directories running with the German Directory software from edev.de have many banned pages. The reason is simple: this software reads out the meta tags automatically. Webmasters that make entries in Directory are typically doing it on many directories. In a conclusion there are a lot of directories with the same descriptions. And google doesn’t like double content at all.

So if you place your sites on a German Directory make sure that the page is indexed and that you place just unique descriptions.

Many webmasters from the States asked me which German directories I would recommend.

Here is a list of German Directories I would hardly recommend. Some of the German Directories on this page doesn’t require a back link but I heavily recommend you to place one. I you give them a back link your link will normally stay on the given page!

these German Directories doesn’t have a need of a back link:

Webkatalog Joobs (btw this guy developed his own directory software)

Webverzeichnis linknova.de

Webkatalog Seitensuche.info

United-Directory.de Webkatalog und Webverzeichnis

onfido

kostenlos eintragen

TopSurftips.de

Webkatalog Internetbaron

The following sites require a back link:

0pr - Webkatalog

Webkatalog Webverzeichnis add-link.de

Webkatalog PinkPage

Webkatalog (you have to mail this guy, he does the entry for you to avoid spam)

Webkatalog CheckTheJob

Webkatalog und Webverzeichnis Suchwiesel

Here is another nice Blog Catalog. There are very friendly and professional.

Another nice directory is

You need to register to be listed on the following catalogs. All this registration processes are endless and I won’t make it.

http://www.blogexplosion.com/faq/
http://www.bloggapedia.com/submit.php
http://www.bloglines.com/help/share

I just found another interessting tool to promote blogs. Its a blogcatalog! The website is easy to use and fast, I was very surprised! I highly recommend them. They even made me this nice button, but I have no idea how to place it my index page.

Is there no html quick consultant out there?

I just promoted my blog on Feed Shark. Its a service for blog submission (automated blog submission services).

Your blog will be sbumitted to social networks as Technorati, IceRocket, Gnoos and Adoppt. There are other other options for RSS and podcats available.

The picture on top of this blog was taken by Elge Kenneweg, a young and talented photographer from Bonn, Germany. She is probably the best “Fotograf Bonn”. Please visit her website http://www.elge-fotografie.de/, I am sure you won’t regret it.

I am wishing her all the best for her business.