We’ve been working hard on launching a number of our directory websites lately. In fact, we need to move a number of them from the “coming soon” area to “active directories”. We’re also in the process of launching accompanying blogs for each one. The first will be at for Utah Web Design Firms and will be located at www.utahwebdesignfirms.com/blog.

We ourselves will be doing little, if any, posting on these blogs. The idea is to set up people from the companies listed on the directories as authors so that they can blog. Blatant self-promotion will be totally ok, within reason. By doing this we hope to increase the visibility of these sites on search engines which will make them more valuable for us as we use them for link building purposes.

If you have any interest in being an author for a blog on any one of our directory websites send an email to jsteimle@mwi.com.

In what is intended to be the first of many niche directory websites, I give you Laundromatic.com, a directory of laundromats. MWI is launching several such directory websites, which have a three-fold mission:

1. Generate sources of links for our search engine optimization clients.

2. Generate sources of incoming links for MWI.

3. If nothing else, hopefully they’ll generate a little money on their own.