First time published on September, 2, 2009.
Search engine optimization is getting more and more difficult by the day. The big search engines are evolving at an incredible speed, making it harder for SEO experts to rank the websites highly.
With that said, there are a few tried and true principles that we need to know when optimizing our website. The first of which, and the one that I always tell people to concentrate on is getting quality, one way backlinks pointing to your website.
The more quality backlinks 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 do not spending your time on those things. I would focus the 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, or Bing.
This is true, reciprocal linking is becoming less and less valuable. Submitting your website or blog to website directories is an excellent way to get, quality one way backlinks pointing to your websites. As you see, many of these website directories online have a high amount of page rank and have been online for several years already.
These are 2 of the most important criteria for determining what a good link is, versus what a bad link is. These criteria are:
The age of the website linking to you
The Page Rank of the website linking to you
With that said, many of these directories have both essential things – a high Page Rank and are old websites, giving them more authority and power in the search engines.
There are literally thousands of website directories on the internet that are absolutely free for you to submit your website to! While it does take time to find these directories and then manually fill out all of the required criteria to submit your website, it is an excellent way to help increase your search engine rankings. Just one thing: time and effort consuming…
There are some good website directory submission software products on the market who do all the hard, long time consuming work for you. What I want to stress here it’s a product called Directory Submitter created by Brad Callen. Essentially you simply enter your website details into the software program once, and then with a mouse click fill on any of the 1600+ website directories in the software and it will automatically fill in all of the submission criteria for you. Just click on the submit button and then your site has been instantly added to the website directory!
So, not only does it save you time in finding all of these directories, but it saves you an incredible amount of time filling out each and every website’s submission criteria. To learn more about Directory Submitter software for FREE, just click on the image below:
#1 by Treadmill Traci on 2011/06/20 - 8:18 PM
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It’s good to know that submitting to directories is a good way to get more links. Do you think it would encourage spam at all? I got the idea from your article that you will mostly get good links.
#2 by doruman on 2011/06/21 - 12:38 AM
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Thank you Treadmill Traci, you just posted a very good question. The same I thought some time ago, when I saw for the first time this offer. From what I know until now, to send your desired link to more than – lets say – 5-10 directories per day can be a mistake.
In the main Google Search Engine (and other quality programs) “hate” any type of automatic software who send links, articles spinning to directories, or other similar methods.
In the same time, the owner of this software know very good the SEO rules for the search engines and he don’t made big mistakes – nor as SEO, nor as marketer; I hope these things are not hard to understand. There are a community of website owners also who tested enough in time this software and they still use it!
An automatic software who mimic the human decisions never will be disregarded by Google or other search engine. A scheduled algorithm of sending the link to directories solve the risk to be banned by these search engines.
Just try it for free if you’re interested and then you’ll have enough time and information to take the right decision for you. Thank you again for your time to read!
#3 by Victor on 2011/06/22 - 3:09 PM
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Gsa website submitter for the win, sorry just had to say it after reading your post.
#4 by seo company on 2011/07/12 - 12:50 PM
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It’s good to know that submitting to directories is a good way to get more links.
#5 by 3d visualization on 2011/10/24 - 3:48 PM
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This is good to know that submitting to directories is a good way to get more links.
#6 by deep link directory on 2011/12/08 - 9:18 PM
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#7 by Effective Marketing on 2012/03/19 - 8:38 PM
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Directory submitter is a good product, but if you watch their videos they make it seem like it’s virtually automatic. Thanks for telling the truth about it. There also aren’t as many directories listed as they claim but it’s still a useful tool.
#8 by doruman on 2012/03/20 - 6:22 AM
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It always will be different opinions… I do not know exactly how many products exist that can please everyone absolutely…
On this WordPress Website I tried to provide only quality stuff, tested in time and used by the top known online marketers…
What could I say more than the fact that Brad has been thought to offer 56 day, 100% unconditional, no-questions-asked, money back guarantee.
Fell Free to create your own opinion through testing – it’s indeed a quality tool, a strong “weapon” which uses the professional techniques of a traffic generation expert…
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#9 by alanc230 on 2012/05/17 - 7:54 PM
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It looks like this product is still on the market. Is it still worthwhile to buy and use? Please comment. Thanks.
#10 by doruman on 2012/05/18 - 4:05 AM
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First of all many thanks to each of you who spend some time to write some thoughts, impressions, words on this article!
Alan, for a good answer, we’ll need to keep in mind the latest changes in the Google’s algorithm, its Panda monthly update, new tools to fight with the web spam and the lack of quality…
In the main, Google search engine like to see a “manual” constant but not tremendous suddenly work; backlinks obtained from various but quality sources, proved in time (blog comments, articles, directories, social media, video sites, references, reviews, forums or other sources of discussions etc.)…
In the medium of SEO there are different opinions, pros and cons – a directory website such it would be the “old SEO school”, or don’t matter in “Google’s eyes” – things of this kind.
In my opinion, even to have a website in many directories don’t have the same “weight” as in the past (except Yahoo Directory and DMOZ) – for Google it remain a part of reference from what they like to see as sources of backlinks for a web site.
So, a tool like this, with some careful selected website directories represents a part of that whole… I hope to be useful for you!
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