I have started a link building campaign for one of my websites by submitting it to all major directories and more beyond so that I can eventually get a good collection of incoming links in the shortest time possible. I was initially thinking at generating 300 more or less relevant links per month especially from free directory submissions. What do you think about this ? Will this cause trouble for search engines ? Is 300 links per month too much for them ? Thank you for your time in answering my question, I will come back with more questions in this topic. Regards
Submitting your site to 300 directories a month, and getting 300 backlinks are not one and the same, since it take a while for your submissions to get approved, and some might even not get approved. So, no, it will not raise any flags.
That is why I have chosen this number too. It seems reasonable. Another question would be: Many directories are free but require backlink from my website to them. How would you manage this situation? I was thinking to create a /partners.htm page and simply add there nothing but links that are asked by the directories, filling the page for this purpose only. Something like the webpage owner of http://www.1clickfixerplus.com/partners.htm has done for software download centers. Do you think this is a good thing to do or just crazy ? Please advice. Regards
Well, a single page with 300+ some links is just insane. Not to mention that it will have no value. I realize this might not be the best course of action in your situation, but I usually just add links to a my site's own directory.
Not only this would be insane bu also very unprofessional. I have now found a software that looks to be easy to use and accurate. I found it by reading the forums here, the software is called Website Submitter and it has 1356 link free submission directories, this means about 4-5 months of my planned slow-motion, safe, link building plan without having to care of backlinks because the number indicated above represents the number of directories that are in its database and do not ask for link-back. Now I ask - what value will lets say 1000 - 1300 such links from such directories give to my website? Is buying this software (47$) seem valuable to you (software is working OK if you are thinking that you dont know it) but I am talking of the real value of investing money + work into submissions (they are semi-automatic) - will it have value ? And if yes - what is the estimated Page Rank of a website that starts with PR0 and end up with 1000 - 1300 directory submissions in 3-4 months. Regards
I don't think any directory owner would like that kind of reciprocal page. Your submission probably will get rejected. Plus when search engines will find that page, you will probably get marked as a link farm or something, hurting your site's ranking... Not a good idea to build a reciprocal page like that one... Bye edit--- Cannot predict the page rank using the link number you have given. Although if your link ends up on pages that have good page rank, you will get a good PR yourself. I think somewhere between 4-6...
I would concentrate on only submitting to quality directory's having made sure that the page i was submitting to was getting cached on a regular basis and had a PR. If you do decide to just submit to free directory's (they make end up with good PR in the future) make sure you keep your link building consistent 300 each month sounds ok, to make the links coming in as natural as possible.
What you did not understand is that I am talking about 300 / month in order to keep it natural, going up to about 1500 - 1800 in total or even more in 5-6 months. Regards and thank you for your answer
Since when has a link from a free directory been natural? The only thing that will happen is your site will never earn much money and never be trusted by Google.
I don't think it's a fact that it'll *never* be trusted, but alot of the free directories don't give much weight. You'd be better submitting to 10 real directories with authority. But they are most likely not going to be free
By natural I was talking about not submitting to 10000 directories in 1 month. By goal for this I am targeting to get a bit of page rank .. lets say 4 or 5.. maximum 6. Is that an impossible goal with my above mentioned directory submission plan ?
I doubt you'll get much of a PR.. remember thousands of people are submitting to these directories. You might be lucky to get on Page 4 for your website's category
You can get PR 4, 5 or even 6 but that has no effect on your rankings at all. I've seen sites that started with a link profile of free directorys gain loads of great links and never get good rankings. It depends on the route you want to take. 90% of people in this forum (if you look quick they are all in the "PR update" thread) will recommend submitting to free directorys and if you want to make $10 per day with adsense then you can follow them down this route. On the other hand if you want to rank on Google for a really top term and make a boat load of money then do something different.
I understand. Well I have a website with page rank 0 for now and I was thinking to start by submitting it to free directories, like I said 1500 - 1800, 300 / month for 6 months or so and then think of other tactics too in the mean time. As for the begining, is that so bad to do ? But in fact, what do you suggest ? Thank you for your time and patience.
In my experience starting a site off with poor quality links is not going to help you. An older site with average rankings and some good links can afford to get some lower quality links but newer sites can't. My suggestion would be to make the site really linkworthy and include a blog with lots of great articles. Try to get other sites and social networks to link to you naturally.
So what is the advantage that I will get from my work of submitting like I mentioned above ? What is the estimated benefit in your view from directory submissions like I said - 300 per month, submitting to 1 or 2000 in a few months. Also: What semi-automatic software for doing this job do you recommend? Regards