Providing our end users with a first-rate experience is one of our top priorities. When people come to BOTW and enjoy using the directory, they will be sure to return. We work hard to provide meaningful navigation throughout the directory. In the end, this creates a gratifying experience for our users, more traffic for our [...]

For my first entry to the BOTW Blog, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Joan Vasquez and I telecommute from Missouri. I love to read, research, write and learn new things, which makes BOTW my dream job. I have worked as an editor for BOTW since July and can honestly say I [...]

In one month, Jupiter Events and SearchEngineWatch host SES 2006 in New York City. As mentioned earlier, this will be our first time as an exhibitor at Search Engine Strategies.We are looking forward to seeing friends, and making plenty of new contacts. As an exhibitor, we are able to provide discount passes to friends and [...]

Like millions of other Americans, today I will kick back and watch NFL playoff football. While not an ardent sports fan, I do enjoy the excitement and urgency that comes with the playoffs. With the season riding on every play you can count on the stars bringing their A-Games. The players kick it up a [...]

Well, the new Blog Directory Search really is ready to rock and roll, however the team, in its infinite wisdom has decided we should hold off a little to pretty ‘er up. I think it already is pretty, but I brought my design skills to bear on the problem and I do believe I have [...]

Well, I know that the BOTW booth will have one less representative during the keynote. According the the SES Blog, InterActiveCorp’s Barry Diller will be keynoting this year’s winter event. How awesome! Not only am I a fan of Mr. Diller, but I think that his presence will draw additional attendees. As this marks our [...]

([\w]*)[\w =\.\,\-\;]((?:[\w]+ =?){0,50)! If you want to scare or confuse someone, just paste them some Regular Expressions, which incidentally reminds me a lot of Geek Code. Of course I’m way too busy working on Best of the Web! to worry about crafting my own. The regex code above is actually part of the code that [...]

In case you were not able to catch it live, Greg gave an interview at eMarketing Talk Show Friday evening (what is it with Greg and the Friday interviews?). Pretty interesting, if you like geeky internet stuff Some of the topics discussed: The Continuing Evolution of Internet Marketing Best of the Web Directory as a [...]

2005 proved to be a good year for BOTW at the conferences. We didn’t participate in our first trade show until PubCon 2004 (though we walked around SES NYC a bit in ’05), when Jared made the trip to Vegas to test the waters. He went out solo to (a) learn some SEO, and (b) [...]

Wow – 2006. Time definitely does fly. Seems like just yesterday that BOTW transformed to the current format. While we may look a lot different than we did back in 1994 (earliest Wayback shows is December ’96, but this is pretty much how the site looked in 94 ), we continue to provide users with [...]