Submitting to directories takes to much time and automating submission I am afraid of because I am concerned about not getting it the right category and then there is the password and emails they send to confirm submission dilemma. As an alternative I have bought inbound links but I am not sure the will get me traffic as well as inbound links like directory submission will do. I already submit to article directories manually but even that is time consuming to do it enough for it work. Having said all that and considering what I have said does buying inbound links provide traffic as well as building my link popularity or do I still need to focus on regular directories and article directories? One more thing, how do article directories make money? Most of them are free. Of these free ones some have advertising so that is income but many have no way of making money I can see. If you know let me know.
Yes, directory submission by hand takes time and thats why people offer this service. You can check the service thread for manual directory submission services. However about your article submissions query, apart from the adsense ads these sites may place text link ads or these sites may be owned by artcile submission providers themselves and they might be charging fees for submission. Abhilash.
Not only the submitting process itself takes a lot of time, some directories tell you upfront it might take them 6 months to register you site, if at all. So in my opinion, submitting your site to directories only makes sense if you are in it for the long haul, and if you are prepared to take the time to submit to at least a hundred individual directories.
Yes, submitting to directories takes a lot of time, but the results are more than worth it. I know this first hand. My link building campaign, which inlcudes tons of directory submissions, has taken my site to top 10 rankings in the top 3 search engines. Free directory submissions is the easiest way to achieve one way links. I guess you could use a submission service, but I personally like to do things myself. That is just the way I am. Hey, that is why they call this work!
Can you explain your link strategy a little answering these questions at least? 1. Do you submit to lets say 10 directories a day, week or month/ 2. Were can I find the best directories that will yield the best results for my site? 3. In general without giving away any secretes I would appreciate an average strategy for doing this. I write a lot of articles and handle many other takes so it is not that I am looking to get out of work but want to manage my time well, there for is there are any good ways to be efficient with getting directory submission done I need to know
What I did is start with the big lists here: http://info.vilesilencer.com/ http://directorycritic.com http://www.isedb.com/ (I also subscribed to the newsletter at this site and get emails from them that list new directories added) Since I completed those lists, I now just visit the directory solicitations and announcements thread on dp (and on other forums) and add to those sites posted. I didn't do this all in one day ofcourse, I completed it over a month or so submitting some each day. Now, I would say I submit to about 20 new diretories/per week an average. I think it would be much more time consuming to analyze each directory to determine it's worth. It only takes a few minutes to submit, so I just submit my site to all directories I come across. You can also pay someone to submit your site for you. I know there are people that provide that service. Good luck!
I have submitted my new site to this list of directories, myself http://www.best-web-directories.com/free-directories.htm and http://info.vilesilencer.com/ Since most free directories takes long time to approve new sites. I don't want to let others to do it for me. It always raise a question to me whether they do it correctly or not. I think promoting site is most important think in online business. So my suggestion is do it yourself or with your staff.
Are you sure ? Submitting to directories should be just one piece of your link building. Try to find niche directories and look what are those directories pointing to - maybe they are linking to casino sites, some spammy sites and I would not like to have there link to my site. Also check if that directory is indexed by SE's. Check does this directory have some inbound links, if it has a little number and all of those are from FFA - it is not worth to submit. Here are some high trusted directories: Yahoo! Directory, MSN bCentral and Business.com Todd Malicout said this :
I agree that directories should only be a part of your link buiding, but I believe it can be a very helpful part. Yes, some directories may not be indexed, include spammy sites or use no follow tecniques, however, since it only takes a minute or so to submit, I just submit and move on without doing any research. In the time it would take me to research, I could have my site already submitted and I just don't think it is necessary since one-way links can never hurt you anyway. As far as the % of directories links going over a certain percent. I have never heard that before. Is there any solid proof of this? I have also heard that that reciprocal link exchanges should not be more than 5% of your links and I have not seen proof of that either.
Agreed with zokiii. Submitting to directory is but one of the long term link building strategy one must undertake if they are serious in promoting their own site. It is a painful, time consuming effort but the rewards will be justifying. I started an Article Directory a year ago. While in the midst of sorting out the operational issues (imagine having to approve hundreds of articles a day) which forced me to delay the marketing effort, my site is getting zilch traffic even with thousands of duplicated contents and outbound links from article submitter. On the contrary, there are others who started new AD and are getting millions of monthly page view after only several months (just checked their site in alexa's traffic view). This is attribute to their active and aggresive site promotion strategy (link building is one of them). The difference? Inbound links, one-way or reciprocal. Buying links only gives you short-term exposure. Link building is still the way to go.