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Great quality links from website directory submission!
Search engine optimization is getting more and more difficult by the day. The search engines are evolving at an incredible speed, making it harder for us SEOs to rank our websites highly.
With that said, there are a few tried and true principles that we need to do when optimizing our website. The first of which, and the one that I always tell people to concentrate on is getting quality, 1 way links pointing to your website.
The more quality links you can get pointing to your website, the higher you will rank, period.
While there are many black hat tricks and tactics that you can do for short term gain, I would suggest NOT spending your time on those things. I would focus my entire effort on figuring out how to get other websites to link to yours without you linking back to them. That is the biggest key to ranking well in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Doing this is easier said that done. One of the easiest known ways to get quality, one way links is by finding website directories and then submitting your website to them. This can be a very tedious process, but always a very rewarding process at the same time.
You can either submit your articles to these directories manually, pay someone to do it for you, OR you can use one of the article directory submission programs out there. The best program for the money that we’ve found is a program called “Article Submitter” created my internet marketing expert, Brad Callen.
This program allows you to submit your articles to over 700 article directories and can save you an incredible amount of time in doing so. You simply enter your article details into the software once, and then select the directory you would like to submit to. The software will then, automatically fill in all of the submission criteria for each directory and allow you to quickly submit your articles.
Not only does this save you time in submitting your articles, but it saves you an incredible amount of time in just finding these free directories
online. I highly suggest grabbing an article submission program if you decide to take advantage of one of the easist ways to get quality, 1 way links to your website.
You can learn more about Article Submitter and how you can download your FREE copy here:
http://killyour9to5.synthasite.com
All the best,
– Mike Edsel
Are Directories Still a Good Form of Link Building?
This question keeps arising and for me at the time of writing this the answer can be explained in this following article. The reason this question has been raised again is because Google has removed its recommendation to submit to directories from its webmasters guidelines.
However I dont think this means that the search engine will stop taking directories links into account. It just feels that it doesnt need to recommend this tactic anymore. This does sound a bit confusing and you have to ask why Google has removed this information, it more than likely that this is a small part of a bigger picture which Google is working on. Google is not likely to tell us what this is and as usual we will have to work it out for ourselves.
I do think however that there are changes going on in the search engine result pages I will describe a few of the most recent ones below. With some search terms more informational websites seems to be showing up as Google thinks a higher percentage of people may be looking for information on a subject rather than to be faced will a list of companies.
Although Pagerank is irrelevant when it comes to SEO it seems to be having an even more less of an impact these days.
Lets get back to the subject of directories the good thing about directories is that they are good for co-citation. This means that what your website is associated with. For example if you had a link to your website on a page with lots of other links to, lets say link directories then Google may think your website is related to that industry. If you want to check what your co-citation is just click the similar pages link next to your listings in the search engine results pages.
So to answer the question at the top of the article are directories still a good form of linking building? and at the time of writing this article I would say yes, however Im sure people would disagree. This may change and in the end only time will tell. I can however prove that this still works as I have seen it work on many websites and even on my own. Just remember to make sure you are submitting to good quality directories like the one above and dont just submit to any old directory.
Are Directories Still a Good Form of Link Building?
This question keeps arising and for me at the time of writing this the answer can be explained in this following article. The reason this question has been raised again is because Google has removed its recommendation to submit to directories from its webmasters guidelines.
However I dont think this means that the search engine will stop taking directories links into account. It just feels that it doesnt need to recommend this tactic anymore. This does sound a bit confusing and you have to ask why Google has removed this information, it more than likely that this is a small part of a bigger picture which Google is working on. Google is not likely to tell us what this is and as usual we will have to work it out for ourselves.
I do think however that there are changes going on in the search engine result pages I will describe a few of the most recent ones below. With some search terms more informational websites seems to be showing up as Google thinks a higher percentage of people may be looking for information on a subject rather than to be faced will a list of companies.
Although Pagerank is irrelevant when it comes to SEO it seems to be having an even more less of an impact these days.
Lets get back to the subject of directories the good thing about directories is that they are good for co-citation. This means that what your website is associated with. For example if you had a link to your website on a page with lots of other links to, lets say link directories then Google may think your website is related to that industry. If you want to check what your co-citation is just click the similar pages link next to your listings in the search engine results pages.
So to answer the question at the top of the article are directories still a good form of linking building? and at the time of writing this article I would say yes, however Im sure people would disagree. This may change and in the end only time will tell. I can however prove that this still works as I have seen it work on many websites and even on my own. Just remember to make sure you are submitting to good quality directories like the one above and dont just submit to any old directory.