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Along with WebProNews providing its own eBusiness directory and blog, it also provides a video blog.
When our dedicated video team ventures off to conferences and happenings, they are able to bring you the very latest news, tips, and interviews from the big names of internet search and eBusiness companies. These videos can be found on our WebProNews Video Blog. If you do know about our video blog, but haven’t visited it recently, you may want to check it out since various changes have been made.

The new WebProNews Video Blog has been divided up into two tiers:

• Featured Videos - These videos have been hand picked for relevance concerning current happenings in the eBusiness world. Any trending topics will be posted in this section.
• Recent Videos - This is an archive of videos that we have recently published and also ones we have published in the past. Looking for a video from a recent conference? This is the place to look!

The various topics and debates that our videos comprise are: (more…)

If you are an on-the-go type person and want to keep up with WebProNews with your busy schedule, there are other ways to keep up with our quality, content-rich service. We currently have approximately 500,000 subscribers, and not all of them can keep up with our website, so we have provided other means to stay up-to-date and in touch with our site. These other media are:

• Our Twitter Account. We know that many of our subscribers use Twitter to keep up-to-date with friends and other services around the web. With this premise, we have created an account just for this purpose. Every time a story breaks on WPN, it will automatically be tweeted to @webpronews.

  

• Our Facebook Page. Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friends and services and has been ever since it was a college-only service. Who knew that it would become such an integral part of services around the internet? With this in mind, I would like to bring your attention to the WebProNews Facebook Page. This is a great way to stay connected with WPN, along with fellow subscribers. If you are on Facebook, simply go up to the Search text box and type in “WebProNews” (without quotes), and our page will automatically appear for you. Feel free to become a fan of us as well!

  

• Our RSS Feed. If you keep up with information on your cellphone or BlackBerry, RSS feeds are the way to go. WPN’s RSS feed is always updated and can be accessed through http://feeds.feedburner.com/WebpronewsTopNewsRssFeed.

  

These are just a few ways that you can keep up-to-date with happenings on WebProNews. If there are any other ways that we can bring WPN to you, please let us know, and we will be glad to assist you.

This past week, the WebProNews eBusiness Directory was mentioned in two different newsletters. One of these newsletters was Jayde Listing Notes, a publication that is sent out by iEntry’s well-known B2B search engine Jayde.com, and also Directory Listing Notes, a publication that is sent out to all iEntry directory participants. So, you could say that our directory has had some excellent exposure.

Along with the various submissions that have been submitted lately, I have been noticing a trend of erroneous submissions, so I thought I would share some tips that would better your inclusion in our quality directory.

• Be eBusiness Specific - Try and keep your submissions as close to our directory’s categories as possible. I have been seeing some submissions about jewelry and fashion stores, and unfortunately our directory does not have any related categories specific to that niche and have to reject them. Please submit sites relating to eBusiness content or anything that is talked about on our parent site WebProNews. If your site is eBusiness related, and you do not see a category in our directory that would best fit your website, please feel free to contact me with your business’ category suggestion.
• Your Site is Live - I have been seeing submissions where the website is either under construction or a landing page. With this in mind, I am unable to successfully pinpoint the product and/or company that you want to advertise. This will also be frustrating to people browsing our directory and want to view your company and can find nothing there. This helps keep the WebProNews eBusiness Directory filled with quality site listings.
• No Shortened URLs - There have been several URLs submitted lately that have been shortened with a random URL generator, such as TinyURL.com or Bit.Ly that redirects the person viewing the website to a longer URL. From an SEO standpoint, this will not help the visiblity of your website in search engines and directories because of the hidden and permanent redirect; therefore, I am unable to accept these URLs. These types of URLs also do not look attractive in directory listings because the URL does not fully describe the company or the product advertised.
• Meta Description Tags - A while back, I mentioned the use of meta tags prior to the submission of your site to our directory. This helps me compile the description of your listing to help better describe your site within our directory.

If you have any questions regarding your directory listing, please feel free to contact me via our directory’s contact form, or if you have account on the iEntry Directory Portal Forum, I can be contacted there as well.

Happy Submitting!

This past week, Chris Crum, the previous directory editor of the WebProNews eBusiness Directory, wrote an article on WebProNews on how web-video giant YouTube is moving up to the next level and is offering new tiers to the site dedicated to television shows and movies. This lets competition emerge with the well-known, full-length movie site Hulu.com which has specialized in this area for a long time. You can read the full-length article of this story here.

The reason why I mention this is because I would bring your attention to the WebProNews eBusiness Directory’s Video Sharing Sites subcategory (found here) under the Social Media category. This category is dedicated to listing sites such as YouTube.com and Hulu.com.

If you are the owner of a video-sharing site and would like to have it indexed within our directory listings, please feel free to use our quick-and-easy submission form. All you have to do is to provide the URL of the video-sharing site that you would like listed with us, along with your e-mail address for notification, and your video-sharing site will be be submitted for pending inclusion into our directory listings.

Happy Surfing!