Right now your first Category Sponsorship is FREE for 30 days and afterward bills monthly at a 30% Discount! This offer is valid only if the sponsorship is ordered during the month of March. To take advantage, use Promo Code “THIRTY30″. Thirty percent off is pretty darned good… but getting to test it out for FREE first makes it a no-risk proposition. Nice bonus.

Now we’d like to play our part helping folks get their website and their products in front of more people than ever. BOTW now has more than 20 million listings spread across the Web Directory, Blog Directory, UK Directory, and BOTW Local. We are happy to offer a promotion good through the end of January: SAVE 20% on All NEW BOTW Submissions and Sponsorship Advertising.

Best of the Web is offering a bundled price for our flagship product, the Best of the Web Directory, and BOTW Local, our user-driven directory of businesses throughout the US. Note that this includes 50% off our already discounted price for BOTW Directory… so this is a deal not likely to be eclipsed by future offers.

Just a reminder for those last minute shoppers looking to place a few last ads before 2008 expires… use our “BLIZZARD” promo code for extra savings.
When prompted, enter promo code “BLIZZARD” and Save 25%

The ever-expanding BOTW is proliferating yet again—we have launched a comprehensive UK Directory that catalogs relevant British and Irish websites and your anglophile narrator is thrilled!
BOTW UK incorporates the original BOTW Directory’s extensive and comprehensive categorization methods, and the new UK Directory will offer seamless access to corresponding information in the main directory. British and […]

Looking for something on the web yields similar problems. You need to search the term that’s actually present, and it doesn’t hurt to have it spelled the same way. Unfortunately, if you’re in the UK you are sometimes hampered by evidence the colonials elsewhere can neither spell nor call things by their correct name.

A little more than a month later, and we have made some great strides with our Local Search offering. What a wild month it’s been.
We built out and opened up a couple of dozen additional cities, and now have more than 30 cities active. You can find a partial list of the activated […]

In mid November I had the opportunity to talk to Greg Hartnett, President of Best of the Web… having stumbled across an advertisement for an editing position only marginally related to my eventual role. He was hunting a “senior editor”. After some discussion he had me assembling a directory editor “dream team“… virtually all of whom exceed my own editing skills. It is a privilege to work among them. The original Herd members just passed the 6 month mark at BOTW.

Some time ago if a web marketer wanted to know details about a site it could take hours to investigate. How many links does a site have? How many pages does a site have cached in Google? How old is the site? What is the site’s Alexa rank? It was […]