Search Engine and Directory Network (SEDN for short) is a UK WW powered network dedicated to helping Web Directories and Search Engine owners attract more sales and traffic to their website.
Joining SEDN is free and could not be more simple. Once your directory meets the basic membership requirement, just follow the simple steps required to join and you can have an additional submission window on the Internet for your web directory, free of charge.

Here are the basic steps your directory or search engine needs to meeting.
Your Directory is primarily a UK focused directory.
Your Directory is at least 1 year old.
Your Directory is family friendly.

If your director meets the three basic criteria above, you are ready to move to the next stage which is to have your Directory listed on SEND homepage and a dedicated page created for your directory.

Your need to send the following information about your directory to SEDN coordinator:

Directory Name:
Directory URL:
Directory Submission Page:
Up to 300 well written information about your directory.

Within seven working days of providing the above information, your directory will be live on SEDN network.

Send your directory details as soon as possible, there is a limited space available. You can find more infor on where and how to send your directory details at the appropriate thread in the directory section of UK Webmaster Forum

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With all the features of Link Bid Script, it is the best free bidding directory script available. There are many free features, and you can even test out Link Bid Script so you know all about it beforehand. If you are starting a bid position directory or a light web directory, Link Bid Script is the best free bidding directory script option.

I have been authorized to make a decision on the winner of UK Webmaster Forums Website Of The Month contest in the month of November.

After careful review of all nominated websites I am proud to announce that the winner of November Website of the Month contest is:

BZ Image Webmaster forum is managed by Shannon Lilly – young webmaster from Texas, US.

In the last few month that I have been watching it, Shannon’s forum has made big improvements in general visual presentation and content quality, which lead to increased activity and member base.

Congratulations Shannon and good luck with your growing forum!

There is still time left to nominate your site for December contest and compete for a great prize package.

SEO Challenge who is right – Bagi or Temi

Bagi and Temi are active members of UK Webmaster Forums, both are quite experienced webmasters, Bagi leans more towards search engine optimisation (SEO) aspects of webmastering more than Temi. In addition to running a directory called Directory of SEO Links, Bagi was the runner up in a Hungarian SEO competition in 2006.

Temi is a webmaster with many years of experience, he run many websites including his personal blogs and offers SEO consultation services to small businesses in UK. He claims to always achieve page one raking for his clients.

Bagi and Temi seem to disagree about whether hyphens make any difference to SERPs or how highly a site ranks for a particular keyword. Here is a personal statement from Bagi and Temi on this matter:

Personal Statement from Bagi
If you have a given website with a certain content having a related keyword rich domain name with hyphens you will achieve better rankings with same efforts.

Temi’s Personal Statement
I do not believe hyphen, dashes or underscore affect how highly your site is listed on SERPs nor give you any advantages over a site or contents with no dashes, underscore or hyphen in its domain name or urls of other parts of the site.

Quest to test Bagi and Temi’s position empirically
To find out which of the two guys is right, a small test was designed as follows:

• two domains names registered, one with hyphen, one without
• Domain name has no relevance what so ever with the contents of the site
• Domain names hosted on the same IP address, same time
• There will be no outgoing links from the sites
• The page size on both domain will be the same
• Same bolding tags and other formatting in the two sites will be kept the same.
• Avoid putting same contents on both pages to avoid duplicate contents penalty
• The same number of links from the same source will point to both sites

The test was designed with suggestions from OWG and DKs . You can follow the discussions about this test at UK Webmaster Forums