Saturday, November 24, 2007

Continuation of the Prior Post

This is really just a continuation of the prior post. But I thought it would be interesting to look at where this site is becoming visible on the web. I thought I would first take a look at directories. SSDRC can be found on the following directories. The first is in the disabilities section of Elegant directory. This seems to be a fairly basic type of listing and to be honest could probably stand to be more detailed as far as the description of the site is concerned. The resource link in the Retirement planning section of Directory bin looks about the same as the other and for that matter the listing in the Disabled section of Ewilla looks the same.

I really think that directories can be helfpul for web searchers. Not because they do things better than the search engines. They clearly don't when it comes to locating and indexing fresh content and prioritizing the popularity of those sites. However, popularity is not the most important criterion when it comes to keeping a record of websites. In fact, I routinely run into the problem of searching the engines on a particular topic and not being able to find useful sites. This is where directories came really come in handy. On several occasions, I've been somewhat astounded to find sites in this or that directory that I absolutely could not find in the first 20 or 30 pages of search engine results.

Other places on the web where this site may be found:

The News and Media section of Link Lasso;

The disabled Magazines and Ezines section of Skaffe;

The Disabilities and Disorders section of Yeandi.

All of these directory-type sites seems fairly well organized. There may come a day, of course, when they no longer serve a useful purpose. However, that's been predicted for several years now. And, to be honest, even as deep as the engines crawl and index, I don't see them becoming the be-all, end-all authorities on listing web content. For now, categorized-directory-sites seem to offer a useful alternative to web users who are trying to find information that, for one reason or another, the engines just can't seem to list, at least not within the first twenty result pages of a search.





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