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Who We Are
Excellent
Guide is owned and operated by Roderick Coleman, a professional business
consultant, who has dedicated himself to creating new internet search concepts
that help web searchers find credible and usable websites very quickly and
easily.
Excellent
Guide is the perfect solution for webmasters and those browsing the internet in
search for reliable, credible websites. Unlike any other web directories, our
goal is to provide you with much more than just links. At Excellent Guide, we
pride ourselves on providing links to websites that are both user friendly
and credible.
Excellent
Guide has created a unique scoring system that lets our staff manually rate
websites on credibility. We based most of our requirements for credibility
according to
Studies performed by Stanford University
which have proven what webmasters look for in credible websites. Our system also
rates all the websites in our directory on web usability variables as well. Web
usability is about making your website in such a way that your site users can
find what they are looking for quickly and efficiently. A
usable website can reap huge benefits
for your website and your business.
Our Mission
Excellent Guide's mission is to
help webmasters find more credible sources easier by scoring websites on a
series of questions that will give websites an overall credibility rating.
Excellent Guide has created a unique scoring system that lets our staff manually
rate websites on credibility. We based most of our requirements for credibility
according to
Studies
performed by Stanford University
which have proven what webmasters look for in credible websites. Our system also
rates all the websites in our directory on web usability variables as well. Web
usability is about making your website in such a way that your site users can
find what they're looking for quickly and efficiently. A
usable website can reap huge benefits
for your website and your business.
Our goal at Excellent Guide is to
provide web searchers the opportunity to find quality, credible websites quickly
and easily. Excellent Guide does all the leg work in finding out if these sites
are real organizations, and not just fly by night websites. Excellent Guide is
also built to encourage websites to focus on increasing their credibility and
web usability. In return, we will send as much quality traffic to these sites
as possible. We offer two professional reviews for websites to get listed on our
directory. Websites listed are either listed using the "Express Web Usability
Review" or "Professional Credibility Review".
What is web
credibility?
In a
nutshell, web credibility goes one step beyond web usability. Anyone can make a
website with working links, fast loading times and an eye-pleasing design, but
what web searchers really want are websites that they trust. When a web searcher
encounters a website that is well designed and provides relevant information
that is useful and on topic, they still can not determine if that website is a
credible business..
Getting
Listed on our Directory
Most
websites that are listed on popular search engines and other general directories
are usually listed by a pagerank score, link popularity, and some websites even
pay companies to get them higher listings on these search engines. Because of
pay per placement, they appear first for keywords you used in your search
queries. This means that non-credible sites can easily get in the way of your
search results for credible websites. The internet is full of scam and con
artists, yet there are many credible websites that are in need of your
attention.
Our goal at
Excellent Guide is to provide web searchers the opportunity to find quality,
credible websites quickly and easily. Excellent Guide does all the leg work in
finding out if these sites are real organizations, and not just fly by night
websites. Excellent Guide is also built to encourage websites to focus on
increasing their credibility and web usability. In return, we will send as much
quality traffic to these sites as possible. We offer two professional reviews
for websites to get listed on our directory. Websites listed are either listed
using the
"Express Web Usability Review"
or
"Professional Credibility Review".
All Websites
listed are rated on Web Usability. A website's usability in our directory
is scored on speed/loading time, number of broken links, meta tag, keyword
density, html errors, number of backlinks, pagerank, and alexa rankings.
Basically, websites that score the highest usability score are listed higher in
the directory.
For Detailed
requirements on how scores are given, visit
requirements that we list for web usability.
Websites Usability is rated separately from Website Credibility. Why? Because
as you know, web site credibility is something that takes time for some
people or businesses to establish. Websites that choose to be listed with a
credibility score in our directory must meet at least 8 of the 10
requirements that we list for web credibility.
A website's credibility score in our directory is rated on the following:
You must
meet or exceed all the requirements that we suggest for each in order to get a
website credibility score. This helps our directory maintain a quality listing
of credible websites that can easily be identified by webmasters searching our
directory.
Benefits for
Web Searchers
All websites
listed in our directory are ordered from websites with the highest web usability
and credibility scores. Although our web usability is rated automatically using
our special online software, Excellent Guide's staff manually rates selected
websites that have chosen to be rated in order to show that they are indeed
credible. The credibility rating means that websites are screened to make sure
that they deliver what they promise. Excellent Guide is the fastest, easiest way
to find quality websites with the information you are seeking, and websites that
are both user friendly and credible. To get an idea on how credibility is rated.
view our frequently asked questions. Also as an added bonus, we have an article
directory full of professional articles to feed your knowledge on new things and
ideas. Our article directory is real and does not have all the annoying ads and
advertisements that other sites have.
Benefits for
Webmasters
Earning a
ranking on Excellent Guide is much more than adding keywords and meta-tags to
your website. Each website submitted to Excellent Guide receives a ranking of 1
to 10 in several different categories to determine overall usability and
credibility. The Credibility scores are determined by the staff at Excellent
Guide , the usability scores are generated by our advance directory program.
This ensures that the websites listed in our directory are both credible and
usable. Also as an added bonus for being in our directory, you get the chance
of being listed in front of many visitors and also you have created an keyword
rich article directory to help promote your sites.
Every
Article listed on our
article
directory,
has a "Related Websites" location where related categories in our
Web
directory
appear on each related article. They are ordered the same as they are in the
directory. Sites with higher scores appear first, and sites with lower scores
appear last. Get a chance to be viewed by thousands of targeted readers. |