If you are just starting out in the eBusiness world, the WebProNews eBusiness Directory is a great place for finding and researching quality resources to help kick-start your eBusiness experience. With this in mind, I would like to direct your attention to our directory’s Tutorials category.

This category is filled with user-submitted tutorials to help your business’ website succeed in this competitive business world. The subcategories that these tutorials have been organized are been listed below:

• eCommerce Tutorials – Find tutorials to aid you in your quest for a successful eCommerce business.
• IT Tutorials – General tutorials for IT managers and other members of the IT community.
• Marketing Tutorials – Find articles and tutorials to help you gain perspective for your campaigns.
• Sales Tutorials – Resources for tutorials and advice pertaining to the sales industry.
• Web Design Tutorials – Sites with general web design tutorials, not limited to a specific topic.
• Web Development Tutorials – General developer tutorials including various programming languages.

Do you have a tutorial site that you would like to see listed within this category? If so, I would highly recommend and encourage you to submit it to our directory using our quick-and-easy submission form. All that you have to do is to fill out the form, choose one of the subcategories listed above under the Tutorials category, and your site will automatically be submitted for inclusion.

If you are unsure of which tutorials you would like to start with, our directory recommends various sites for you that we think might benefit your eBusiness experience within the “Our Picks” section located at the bottom of the category.

Happy Surfing

If you have submitted to the WebProNews eBusiness Directory within the past few days and have not seen your submissions go live yet, don’t fret. We are currently and diligently working on the software for our directory that handles humanly-edited/manual submissions and do hope to restore services to this software soon.

With this in mind, this definitely does not mean that you have to stop submitting to our directory. Please feel free to keep submitting your eBusiness-related sites for inclusion to us, because we do hope to have everything up-to-speed and firing at all cylinders very soon.

Please be sure to stay up-to-date with our directory blog on the latest developments with our submission process, and on behalf of WebProNews, we do apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Happy Submitting!

Have you been to Twellow recently? If so, you would have noticed that a new tab has been added under its banner. This new feature is called Suggested Users and was launched last week to help you find people that matter according to your interests, just like TwellowHood helps you find people that matter according to your region.

If you are unsure of what service this is that I am talking about, Twellow is a Twitter user directory that is owned by the iEntry Network, which also owns WebProNews.

The new Suggested Users feature is available to all registered Twellow users, and it also provides results of users that share the same common categories that you have listed in your Twellow Profile. To see a comprehensive list list of all of the available categories, check out Twellow’s “All Categories” Page.

The various qualities and benefits of this new feature have been provided below:

• Displays up to 500 profiles relating to your categories.
• Follow interesting users directly from Twellow.
• Ignore and hide user listings that you do not think are relevant or good matches so that they do not appear in your “suggested” list again.
• Click on a user’s “More Info” link to display the categories that they belong to. The categories that you belong to will be marked with a green star.

This is a great way to find Twitter users that matter to you, just like how our directory helps you find resources for your business.

More on this new feature can be found on Twellow’s Blog and the WebProNews article that previous WebProNews eBusiness Directory editor Chris Crum has published.

To find other great tools and resources for finding people and resources around the net, please feel free to browse our Online Search Tools category:

Happy Searching!

For this week’s WebProNews eBusiness Directory Blog post, I thought I would take the time to mention some of the events and highlights that have been happening on WebProNews Video, which is another tier of this directory’s search and eBusiness news site of WebProNews.

The WebProNews Video team travels all around the country, visiting various SEO, blogging, and technology expos to bring you quality and content-rich video presentations and interviews from events, such as: Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), and BlogWorld. Recently at BlogWorld, our team had the chance of interviewing the following celebrities:

Kevin Pollak

Do you remember the brownie “Rool” from Willow, or pool-cleaning dad from She’s All That? Stand-up comedian Kevin Pollak discusses how he is using social media to help promote and present his online, round-table interview site of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.

Anthony Edwards

Most of you probably remember Anthony Edwards as ER’s Dr. Mark Greene and “Goose” from Top Gun, but you probably do not know him for his charity work. With this in mind, Edwards spoke to WebProNews Video about how he is using social media to help get the word out about his special charity and how social media is a communication tool for other charities as well.

For interviews from other well-known celebrities regarding search and social media, please visit WebProNews Video. Our directory also has some other great resources like those mentioned above that can be found in the Social Media Blogs category.

If you have recently submitted your business’ website(s) to the WebProNews eBusiness Directory using our quick-and-easy submission form, you would have been re-directed to a page called WebProNews Tools. This page acts as an online utility belt that will help enhance your B2B (business-to-business) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experiences in a portal-type arrangement.

As you can see from the image above, the layout of WebProNews Tools had a makeover for a more appealing and organized design, providing the various tiers mentioned below:

• Featured Tools – These tools are hand picked from the list of tools as features that may benefit your SEO experience. These are also highly recommended from our WebProNews team.
• Top Headlines – If you are unfamiliar with our directory’s parent site of WebProNews, we have provided a small glimpse of the most recent stories to be published on our content-rich and informative eBusiness and Search news and video site, covering breaking stories relating to: social media, web trends, and online technologies.
• Website Tools – These tools are designed to help boost your business website’s presence on the internet, along with various social media tools and web resources. For a full description of these tools, please check out the original blog post when these web applications were first launched on our tools page.

If you are new to the SEO world and want to start exploring resources to help promote your business website’s products and presence on the web, I would recommend checking the WebProNews Tools page on a regular basis, because the news and tools vary as new SEO trends develop.

Please feel free to leave a comment to provide feedback on how these tools have helped promote your business website and online experience. You can always let me know if you have any questions regarding these tools as well.

Happy Submitting!

In my support inbox this past week, I received an e-mail from a prospective WebProNews eBusiness Directory submitter who wanted to know what the benefits of being included in our directory are. With this in mind, I thought it would be informative to share with you what the various benefits of being included in our directory are:

1. Part of WebProNews – Being listed in our directory, you are a part of WebProNews and have contributed a part of your interest to us. This also comes with bragging rights with having your website listed on a WebProNews page, especially because it is a very reputable and content-rich eBusiness and Search news site.
2. A Backlink From Us – From an SEO standpoint, backlinks help to get your business’ website more visible on search engine results and help improve your ranking. With this premise, you are more than welcome to have a backlink from us, and we would be glad to be a part of your SEO improvements and experiences.
   (Speaking of SEO, have you checked out our directory’s Search category? It is filled with a vast and unique amount of SEO-related resources.)
3. Being Listed In a High-Quality Directory – Since our directory is a counterpart of the highly-trafficked website WebProNews, it gets a lot of traffic from various web surfers browsing for resources for their business. Having your business’ website listed within our categories exposes your business to this traffic to help increase the clientele of your business and also to form business relationships with other members and non-members of this great foundation of resources.
4. Human-Edited – Yes, our directory is completely moderated by a human being, meaning that there are no robots rejecting quality sites that don’t meet their picky criteria. All site listings are reviewed and then categorized into the best niche that fits your website’s target audience.

Taking all of the information listed above into consideration, why not submit to this quality directory? Submission to this directory and inclusion is completely free of charge to you.

Happy Submitting!

In this day in age, we are living in a wireless revolution where everywhere you turn, there is someone either on a cell phone, connecting to the web wirelessly from a laptop, or sending e-mail from a BlackBerry/iPhone. With this in mind, I would like to direct your attention to the WebProNews eBusiness Directory’s category of Mobile Computing.

With the iPhone and BlackBerry dominating how the business world and how eBusiness are being used, this category also provides many resources to help enhance how your business-to-customer interaction is managed.

If you have a mobile computing-related site that you would like to see included in our directory’s listings, I encourage you to submit your site using our quick-and-easy submission form. Inclusion in our directory is completely free, and you do not need to submit any information other than your e-mail (for notification of its inclusion), URL, the category (Mobile Computing), and a thumbnail image that helps represent the visual aspect of your mobile computing-related site.

To give you an idea of the sites that we would be glad to have included in this category, I have provided a list below:

• iPhone/BlackBerry application-related websites that are beneficial to your business and will help your business grow.
• Blogs on how mobile computing has impacted your business.
• Equipment and/or accessories for your mobile device and to help its connectivity.

Happy Submitting!

This past week, a WebProNews eBusiness Directory user asked me for ways to enhance the appearance and visibility of their listing and also asked if I could share them. With this in mind, I would like to dedicate this edition’s content solely to ways in improving the look of your site listing.

• Have Meta Tags – When designing your business’ website, please make sure that you have meta tags (description and/or keywords) in the head of your HTML code. These items help your listings get better results not just in our directory, but other search engines as well. This will also let us know what the focus of your website is, especially if you do not have a description of your business anywhere on the site itself. If you do not have access to edit your business’ website code, please ask your webmaster to see if these can be added.
• Include An Image – To give other directory users a taste of the design/logo of your business’ website, our directory has the functionality to add a small thumbnail image to help represent the visual eye-candy of your website. This can be done straight from our directory’s submission page when you submit your site to us. The guidelines for our acceptable images are: a) Dimensions of 50×50 pixels, and b) filetypes of .jpg, .gif, or .png. Please also make your image legible for other viewers to see.
• Ask Support – If you have not seen your business’ website’s listing listing in a while and have just recently reviewed it and want it to be changed, the WebProNews eBusiness Directory staff are ready and waiting to help you modify the look of your site listing. All that you have to do is to visit our contact page and specify the changes that you would like made to your site listing, and we will promptly change it for you. We can also add an image to your site listing if you so desire.

Happy Surfing!

Social networking is now an integral part of interacting with customers/clients in the eBusiness world, and the WebProNews eBusiness Directory is your one-stop shop for anything social networking related. This directory has tons of social networking resources just waiting for your traffic.

With this in mind, our directory has added two new categories called Social Networking Events and Social Networking Tutorials under our directory’s existing Social Networks category. Just recently, I have seen a growing trend of these types of sites being submitted to our directory, so I decided to create these categories so that other directory viewers can find them with ease.

SOCIAL NETWORKING EVENTS

This category is dedicated to events that encompass the social networking world, such as: meetups, tweetups, gatherings, etc. If your business is planning a social networking-based event, and want it to be publicized better, this is the category to submit to! Social networking events are great for meeting future clients for your business and a way to socialize with customers if your business is strictly online.

Please be sure to submit the actual website of your social networking event. A page from the social networking site itself will not be included, because of SEO reasons. Also, most social networking page URLs change from time to time.

SOCIAL NETWORKING TUTORIALS

Since social networking is such an evolving niche, and is also new to most businesses, I have decided to dedicate a category specifically for sites to help you get the most out of your eBusiness social networking experience. These sites are great if your business is just starting up in the whole social networking world!

If you have or know of a site that would be great for listing in the categories mentioned above, I would highly recommend submitting the site(s) to our directory using our submission form for inclusion in these two great categories!

With school now being back in full swing, I would like to bring your attention to the WebProNews eBusiness Directory’s content-rich category of Research. This is commonly an overlooked category of our quality directory, and this is why I would like to direct you to it. This is a great category for gaining knowledge about any topics that are research-related, no matter what level of education you are attending.

All of the sites included in this category are hand-picked for genuine content and quality, so feel free to browse this cunning category that is separated into the following tiers:

• Blogs – Find blogs, blogging platforms, blog directories, and blog search engines.
• Content – Actual content, and resources for managing your own content.
• Forums – Find forums to discuss topics such as marketing, web development, and more.
• Market Research Firms – Find firms that conduct market research studies and surveys.
• Online College Search – Find sites that will help find schools to further your education and career.

…and many more Research-related categories for you to choose from!

If you have a Research-related site that you would like to include in the WebProNews eBusiness Directory’s listings, I would highly encourage you to submit your site to us using our quick-and-easy submission form. Inclusion in our directory will help boost your website’s popularity and visibility on the internet, bringing your Research-related site more traffic!