I am the crawler for the web directory. I found and added 9 sites today, 13 yesterday, about 9 the day before…
I can see why these newfangled search engines might catch on.
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I am the crawler for the web directory. I found and added 9 sites today, 13 yesterday, about 9 the day before…
I can see why these newfangled search engines might catch on.
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A few months ago I submitted this blog and my personal blog for listing in the Blogarama Blog Directory. I used the free listing option, then the whole pandemic hit and I forgot all about it.
Sure enough, a few months after submission I was notified that both blogs had been listed! That was kind of neat since “free submit” many times translates to “no luck”, but an editor did look at my blogs and did accept both into the Blogarama directory.
The other news is that I actually get real referral traffic from Blogarama. People are using that directory and are visiting blogs from it. The traffic is not huge but it is there.
You should check out Blogarama as a place to find blogs and/or if you have a blog, a place to get it listed.
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Today, this site joined Hotline Webring.
Hotline is a new style webring so you don’t have to do a lot of registration to join. In fact, this is one of the easiest webrings to join – you only have to do 2.5 simple steps and it just works. The webring code is straight HTML which you create, just follow the instructions. This is nice because the ring code does not take up much space. I have no idea how it’s coded but that hardly matters because it just works.
There is no subject theme for the webring but it mostly appears to be made up of personal blogs, websites and some cool retro Web 1.0 type sites. You will find a list of all sites in the ring at the link above, so you get an idea of who you are hanging out with.
It’s young, it’s fresh, it’s got a pink background. Why wouldn’t you check it out?
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I’ve been slacking on these weekly updates so this might incorporate more than a weeks worth of Indieseek goodness.
New Links List – I’ve been adding a steady stream of links just about every week. There is some interesting stuff here.
Till next weekish have a good time. 🙂
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It’s been a busy Late Autumn but we managed to make a few changes and improvements to the directory in late 2019.
Thank you to all who have used the Indieseek.xyz directory over our first year. And additional thanks to all who have added their websites. Feel free to tell your friends.
Have a Happy New Year!
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The main directory page and every category in Indieweb.xyz creates a unique RSS feed. So if you want to know when new Listings are added to Indieweb.xyz go to the directory main page and scroll to the bottom footer to find a link to the RSS feed.
Likewise, every category and sub-category in creates a RSS feed so if you only want to know when new listings are added to your favorite topic just go to that category footer to find a link to the category RSS feed. (ie. If you want to monitor new listings in the “Role Playing Games” category simply go to that cat and find the feed at the bottom. Repeat for other categories. Simple.) Makes a nice discovery tool.
Blog Only: Of course the blog has it’s own RSS feed just for blog articles and should not be confused with the directory.
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I changed how the default search function works here on the Indieseek.xyz directory. Previously, when you searched, you got a list of listings only. I’ve changed the default to “Search All” which gives you a tabbed search result: Listings, Categories, Comments. The tabs are at the top of the search results page.
Listings is the default tab you see right away, but the Categories tab is the important one because if you find a category that matches your search query you are more likely to to find all the sites listed for that subject. (Example: try searching for “directory software”, “webrings” or “indieweb” and click on the Categories tab and you will see what I mean.)
Hopefully this will give you a better experience when searching the directory. Please let me know in the comments below.
The best way to use a directory is to find the category that matches your subject. Using the Category tab offers a shortcut to digging deeper into the directory.
Just like before, if you don’t find what you want you always have the option of continuing your search on one of six other privacy or Indieweb search engines or directories at the bottom of the search results.
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Summer is really over here at the directory. My break from Indieseek.xyz, both the directory and the blog was intentional.
Most of the above might sound discouraging but it’s about what I expected. Indieseek.xyz is a long term project and it takes time to grow traffic from scratch. The directory will never be huge, but it hopefully will be useful in finding non-commercial sites and pages on a subject.
I’ve got a lot of good sites gathered over the summer, in my bookmarks, so I’ll be adding those. Also I’ll try to fit in more blog posts. The problem is, other than announcements, I’m running out of directory and search engine stuff to talk about.
I’ve also been wondering if we need a mailing list or a forum or something for parties interested in linking/directories who can’t seem to get on the Indieweb.
from Kicks Condor on: Wikipedia Discusses Curlie Links
Yeah I think that is a good idea for a forum. Even if it’s only 3 or 4 people, it’s a place to knock ideas around.
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Indieseek.xyz got listed in the official Indieweb wiki at Indieweb.org/directory. We’re there along with directories made by Joe Jenett and Kicks Condor.
Created a new top level category Books. Made Fiction and Nonfiction sub-categories of Books.
I was showing some friends of mine my new Kobo ebook reader and realized they knew very little about ereaders. If they had questions, maybe others have them too. So I created two new categories under Books: eBook Readers and eBook Sources.
I changed the lineup on the Top Categories page. Much to my surprise, the News category has proved very popular.
Added a few new author sites
Added lots of listings to those new ebook categories, including a good mix of sources for free ebooks, because free is good and we like free.
Plus added a couple of vintage sites.
Chris McLeod submitted his weblog Mr.Kapowski to the directory. Thanks Chris! Chris talks about web development, miniature painting and war games.
Over at nodes.indieseek.xyz I managed to add a blogroll, a linkblog and a niche directory. We add them as we find them.
Many thanks to the many people that support Indieseek.xyz. If you would like a way to support Indieseek I would ask that you link to us. Thanks.
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We had our share of excitement here with part of both Indieseek.xyz and Nodes.indiseek.xyz directory scripts partially down for awhile. The problem was the Php errors would only show when logged out of the sites and I, being the Admin, am almost always logged in. No telling how long that was going on. Fixed now.
I’m no longer rushing to to seed the directory with listings. This is good because it gives me more time to work on more detailed descriptions. I have also started writing Comments for listings to give my thoughts on things, like: why it’s listed, my experience with it, my recommendation, etc. This lets me editorialize while keeping descriptions more neutral.
New listings will be added through new submissions and websites I find along the way. I have added a few blogs and other websites. I always keep my eye out for blogs.
Over at the link clump directory, I’ve added a couple of linkblogs to the listings.
I also added a new category of traditional web directories. I added these to show younger people how we found stuff on the Web before search engines got good and before Google. Since they are still around, I thought they should be acknowledged in some way.
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