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Purpose of This Blog as a Link Directory



This blog is a link directory, with sites of interest to Southern Muse. If you wanted the short answer, that's it. If you want the history of how my site directory came about, read on...

Years ago, I guess about the year 2000, I submitted a few URLs to DMOZ, which was the search engine back then (or one of them). Then I tried out as a DMOZ volunteer for the North Georgia Region. Since I was a newbie, DMOZ decided to give me one town, Eton, Georgia. I poked around and discovered that Eton probably only had one registered website ~ mine. Even Shaw Industries (at that time, the world's largest privately owned carpet mill) didn't have a website, or if it did, I couldn't find it. It got pretty boring managing Eton, Georgia, and its one known, bonafide website, so I gave up being a DMOZ volunteer.

It occurred to me that, being a "webmaster" (applause) I could just create my own link directory, and add any link I liked. Since my site had been submitted and picked up by the search engine, my external links would be searched and added, too. It worked out well. I concentrated on regional sites, art sites, library sites, genealogy databases, history sites, and a few other "potluck" sites. I even added a little food section, since the term "potluck" might accidentally draw people who were looking for recipes or something. I didn't want to disappoint them.

Google being what it is now, link directories are hardly needed, but I like to keep this up for old times sake, and because I revisit these sites every now and then. This directory helps me remember to do it.

That's pretty much it. Thank you!


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