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 […]

Knowing what your users think about your product or service can prove to be a crucial role in the success of your offering. Is it solving their needs? Easy to use? The only way to know is to ask.
The goal of the BOTW Directory is pretty straightforward. Build a comprehensive directory […]

If you haven’t already heard, Google has launched a new payment service called Google Checkout. While they don’t let you accept recurring payments, they do let you accept a payment for one time only. That’s just fine for our lifetime listing product. Submit your URL for […]

My Lords… My Ladies…
Today you find yourselves equals - for you are all equally blessed; For I have the pride, the privilege, nay, the pleasure, of introducing you to the BOTW API!

What I’m about to tell you is subject to change, since it’s still early in the game. […]

I’m not sure whether I’ve ever posted the following analogy, but I’ll say it again anyway: I often feel like I’m a soldier and the internet is my battlefield.
Some days, I’m just trying to survive without getting my head blown off. “What are we fighting for Sarge???”
Other days, […]

The good news is that a couple of months ago our blog search was added to GrabPERF, a blog performance monitoring site. We are included amongst some industry titans, including Mozilla, Wordpress, Google, CNN, Digg, Technorati, and more.
The bad news is that according to their speed metrics, we currently rank as the third slowest […]

We receive a fair amount of questions from people about our different products and services. More and more each month - there is a direct correlation with traffic and customer care. While most of the inquiries are specific to a user’s individual circumstance, many of them are somewhat redundant - or frequently asked. […]

While everyone else is boozing it up..err.. I mean getting ready to network and do some business at the SES conference, it is with great pride that I steal a bit of their thunder and give you a brief intro to some new features on the BOTW Blog Directory. And why shouldn’t I […]