Utah Designers, Illustrators, Design Firms and More
I’ve been adding a few links every week to my lists of Utah talent (have you checked lately?), so keep checking back. I’m always doing Google searches trying to find more to add that I’ve missed. Tonight I ran across a directory called Salt Lake Sites at http://slsites.com where I was able to find a few more design firms, a photographer, and an illustrator I was missing.
Salt Lake Sites
Salt Lake Sites claims to be the largest open directory for Salt Lake City, Utah and surrounding communities. While it may not be the prettiest directory I’ve seen, with over five thousand listings in 280 categories, it well could be as it claims. The site was created by Kevin Delaney as a non-commercial hobby site. All he asks for being listed is a shout-out on your blog or website, or a small listing fee in return. There was a couple ill-fated links in the design section that I reported to Kevin - I’m sure he has plenty on his hands to do just approving new links.
So in an effort to get more people to find my site, I’m listing it there tonight. I’ll let you know how it goes (I use Google Analytics to track it).
Utah Designers, Illustrators, Design Firms and More
And keep checking back for my continued lists of Utah Talent! (I add a few new ones every-so-often, and verify their existence at least every week.)
And please let me know if you have any suggested links of other Utah talent!
November 26th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Thanks for adding your site to Salt Lake Sites. Most of the listings in the directory go straight to the destination. I track a subset of the listings. It appears that sites listed in the directory get just under 100 hits a year. The experience of each site varies by category. The scrapbooking page gets a ton of traffic, the history page does not. Listings also get a bit of search engine karma.
Unfortunately, the site has been found by the link spam industry. This is why I put you through that horrible add a link queue kluge. If I ever get in a designing mood, I will probably try to make the site more wikilike.
Right now the big challenge is in deleting broken links.
Thanks for adding your site. Feel free to add all of your local clients.
November 28th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Thanks for the add Kevin! It’s nice to see someone who takes a personal pride in his online project. I had wanted to do something similar with a URL I’ve had for years - inslc.com, but don’t seem to have your skill-set or a budget to throw at it.