Jasmine Directory is a human edited web directory that provides topically and regionally categorized and regional websites and businesses. It offers thirteen topic-based categories and one category by region with selected resources and user review.
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Histori
This directory was launched in 2009 at the University of Technology and Economics Budapest by PÃÆ'Ã… © csi AndrÃÆ'¡s and Robert Gombo. It operates from Valley Cottage, New York.
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Operation and structure
Jasmine Directory lists publicly available educational and business resources that can be filtered by business category. The Jasmine Directory editor manually adds resources to the index, which, according to Gombo co-founder? represents 90% of its listing. Businesses and site owners can also suggest their website for review by paying a fee; however, inclusion is not guaranteed if the suggested resources do not match the editorial guidelines, in which case the review fee is refunded. The directory labels selected by the editor use the "EP" sign to separate the website from that submitted by the site owner. To suggest resources to enter, the user can select the appropriate category; they can also customize their lists by adding their website social media fan pages and contact information based on which Google Maps location of the business will be generated appropriately.
This directory is organized by topic and region into 14 categories. Each major category has several sub-categories, including recreation and sports, regional, home and garden, business and finance, as well as computers and technology. Each category and subcategory is described and contains relevant images. Blogs where users can read industry-specific articles are also displayed. In an interview, Gombo? states the purpose of the directory is to list educational references together with local facilities and business of public interest.
Main categories
The 14 main categories are:
Reception
In 2013 and 2014, Jasmine Directory is ranked and awarded eight times in "Top Ten Web Directories", by former DMOZ meta editor and owner and operator of Ken Anderson's Magic City Morning Star. For Anderson's list, 90 general web directories are reviewed quarterly and assessed in five areas including aesthetics, size, intuitive, quality and usability. Dave Davies, columnist at Search Engine Land and Beanstalk Internet Marketing Inc. includes Jasmine Directory in its list of web directories of 2013.
By December 2014, Moz has assigned Jasmine Directory a 60/100 Domain Authority, Authority Authority 67/100, MozRank of 6.81, and MozTrust 6.64. The Majestic Trust flow is 59, while the Repeat Stream value is 49. By 2016, the listing in the directory seems useful for search engine optimization for local Google search results. In the same year, the directory obtained a score of 5 in the assessment session conducted by the Association of Internet Research Specialists and published in the Internet Information Source Book where search engines, web directories, archives online, and online databases have been ranked on a scale of 1 to 5.
According to information posted on the Social Implications blog, the Jasmine Directory appears to be in line with Google's general guidelines as of February 2018. Also, Daily News Egypt finds the directory to follow "rules set by Google ". Ann Smarty, a marketer and a columnist at Entrepreneur , found that the directory provided "a valuable user experience". In 2018, Shawn Hessinger, industry-specific author and executive editor of Small Business Trends, praised the directory as "selective", while in a more diverse review, the TNT editor labeled it "very traditional "and" tad simplistik "with" old look ". An article published by The New Indian Express notes that "while the Jasmine Directory layout is getting old, it still looks fresh and clean."
See also
- List of web directories
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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