Hi How many minutes/hours a day do you spend looking for links or doing directory submissions for your site(s)? Cheers
In the early months of the website, I was spending lots of time submitting to directories. It was time well spent. Nowadays, I find that by checking DP's "Solicitations and Announcements" forum, there will be typically a few new available directories every day. I submit to those. Over the course of a full year, that will get you perhaps 1,000 new links with very little time spent.
Do you pay someone to do it? Personally, i wasnt convinced by directories. So thought i'd spend a whole day submmiting to them to see what happends. I submited to loads, like 500, paied someone to write 3 articles and submit them to 96 sites, i also added a google sitemap. Before subbmitting: 80 backlinks 2 weeks after: 108 lol, ok, its not a lot but i do get an email every so often saying "your link has been excepted" -- so im thinking it will still go up more. Whats really made me spend even more time submitting (which i have been for 2 hours today), is that before submitting i was getting $0.00 a day from adsense -- now i get $0.04-$0.30 (1/2clicks) ---- Again its low, but i've had my site since sept 05 with adsense, and made nothing. I submit to directories, and start getting clicks. I think about an hour a day is good enough. (though i did more today) I submited to another 146 directories today, i really belive its worth my time, as its the only thing i can put my sites "improvements" (lol) down to.
itsall: I always like positive thinking. I try to stick to it myself, but am not always able to do so... Concerning dir submissions, I think it's better to pay for them to save time and use it on more productive things. But I spend some time every day searching for places to buy/exchange links.
Good point... Maybe i should those 5 minutes sure are tedious! Im not knocking the value of directories by the way - just to be clear
Well, now I just submit a relevant ones a day. I think I spend more time looking for links than actually submitting them. Could take 1/2 the morning for it though.
That is the same as me. I spent the last three months submitting like crazy, now I just use the Solicitations and Announcements on this forum and others to add a few each day. Takes very little time. As far as searching for sites to exchange links with, maybe an hour per week. However, my site is a very part-time business. If I had more time, I would probably spend more time.
Personally I go in spurts. Maybe every other week I'll spend 4-5 hours slamming directories and looking for link exchanges.
I suggest directory submission, because it's both a short term and a long term chance to get links to your website. But I have to admit that links coming from directories are useful for SEO purposes, not for traffic.
what places have you found worth of purchasing links? i purchased on newsisfree.com and i am not sure its helping at all. rather then placing my link on one or a few pages, it is on thousands of pages. google could possibly read this as paid advertising. anyone else have a similar experience?
It took me about 2-3 hours analyzing backlinks and submitting to directories. I write my own article so I save lots of money and then I just distribute my articles to my article submission lists.
when you build links for google, all you need is 30 links per month from relevant sites. So it should take you 5 - 10 minutes per day. its really about the amount of days you spend building links as opposed to minutes or hours per day. too many link backs @ 1 time may be seen as spamming
i completely agrees that is the progress you make rather then the amount of time you spend, but i mean where did you get the number 30 links per month. did you make that up? is it what you have found from your own research? i would think a number like this would depend on the industry you are in. my site is a competitive industry. i don't know if thirty links is enough or not but i don't understand where you got that number from?
I spent 0 hours doing directory submissions. I had a company do it for me for a reasonable fee I had them submit to 300 dorectories for 3 of my sites. I got hundreds of emails for link approvals and I also got some for denials but thats ok, the ratio was good for approvals so I didnt complain considering the price I paid good luck!