With Google, Incoming links are a big part of the algorithm that ranks your site. One way of getting quality back-links, is the famous directory submitting. There are a few ways to go about this, but you want to do it the most efficient, fastest, with minimal time wasted.
Finding the Directories
There are plenty of sources of directories of course, but you want the ones that are going to add your link the fastest, and ones that have at least a 1 page rank. Install the Google toolbar, and set it to display page rank. Some sites have pending links of 1,000+ , we’ll skip those.
Some other sources besides Google:
Digital point has a great category for directories and they are on their daily approving links. They will also welcome any site as long as it’s in their guidelines, with a fast approval.
Also sharing directory lists with others can prove to be quite helpful, as long as they are high ranking and active.
Submitting
Name: -Is not displayed to the public and/or is not indexed therefore it is not so vital.
URL: - This is your link-period. Make sure that this is all correct or you will have to spend extra time correcting the problem, which will set you back. As always directory links are do follow.
Anchor Text: This is very important part. There are two ways to accomplish this. One, is to submit them all with the same anchor text, ie your keyword. Or the second, which is doing it for multiple variations of the keywords.
Description: Take the time out and write a drafts, this way for each one you have something different to avoid duplicate content. Don’t even use text from your site, make it completely unique.
This should get you going on your submitting. You can do it yourself, or pay someone to do it for you on WickedFire.
Do you submit your sites do Directories?
What approach do you take? Pay or do it yourself?
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Google seems to have a liking for natural link building, but directory submissions do have a role to play in gaining backlinks.
I get the directory submission outsourced.
Great point, there is nothing better than natural link building. Directories act as a good way to get your page crawled for a specific key word, that being whichever you submitted the name as, or your anchor text. As I read your comment, it looks like I have to fix the bug of your name not going to your webpage! Anyway, thanks for commenting!
I mostly flat out refuse to link build with directories anymore it seems to be on it’s way out and I’ve had even some negative effects in the serps from submitting to the wrong directories. Have to be careful the directories you choose. And now I’m careful who I pay to do it as I’ve found many of the “submitters” on places like DP will just steal your keywords and make their own landing pages.
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Hi:
I don’t necessarily endorse your point about submitting only to PR1 directories. New directories with PR N/A are better than old directories with PR N/A or PR 0. Since they want to populate the directory and might also promote their directories.
“Name”: Some directories use mods to associate directory submissions done with same name. So the name is not plain irrelevant.
Variations of titles are very important and most of the times you would want to target more than one keyword or phrase anyway.
Descriptions are the most important part. It should be a useful description and not just a string of keywords. Writing a lot of variations also helps.
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