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Enhance Your Website With A Yahoo-Style Directory
Does your website have a links/resources page? Do you exchange reciprocal with other websites to help boost your targeted traffic and search engine rankings? Do you believe that a relevant, yet comprehensive resources page provides tangible benefits to your site's visitors? If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, then you should consider adding an inexpensive (or free!) Yahoo-style Directory to your website. A quality Directory script will add an air of professionalism to your website and provide valuable content for your users. A quality Directory script:
There are many good directory scripts available on the web. Just do a Google search for "CGI scripts". Add a quality Directory script to your site today and you can take your web presence to an entirely new level! About The Author Rick Rouse is the owner of RLROUSE Directory & Webmaster Resources. He is the author of several popular articles and ebooks on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and traffic building. Visit him at http://www.rlrouse.com.
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