Hi there, My directory has been 2 months old. I've learned seo myself as much and I think I'm going on the right way for seo in a long term but serps is not only fact to drive quality traffics to my site. I'm not sure about. 1. Is email marketing still powerful? I've mailing lists from visitors who submitted their sites to my directory but I don't know which the best time to send. My site has been upgeaded from PR0 ---> PR4 and ranking very well on msn in some competitive keywords but I think it's not good enough. Have I got to wait for next PR update or better in google serps before send email? 2. Is PPC ads powerful and worth for money? 3. I've to collect information about sites that related to my directory myself. Most of sites I published hadn't been requested for reciprocal link from me. Should I request reciprocal first before add, or add more information as much as I could in think of content rich without attention on reciprocal or not? 4. Any suggestion? I'm so confusing. your suggestion is very useful to me Regards, Sxperm
Yes, Google and Yahoo take more time and work to rank well on than MSN does. Yes, but you should have some way to track them and see which ads are profitable, and so you know how much to bid per click. I email them to see if they are interested. If they are, I add their link then ask them to add mine. -Adam
It really takes time before you could see the results... It's more like invest first then you get your rewards later... i think your just doing well... try to make a blog then there tons of info related to your site and also put some articles of your own... two months in my opinion is such an early stage to get good results... try submitting to directories as well... i hope this will help you dude... good luck on your work!
Why have you decided to only include U.S. real estate sites in your directory? I think if you made an International or Regional section you would receive a lot more traffic and more sites submitting their URL. It's just a matter of stipulating that sites must be submitted in English.
Do not hurry. Traffic on your site takes time. You are on the right way of promoting your site. Just also consider to use more tactics to have a better and wider range of getting public.
just continue what you are doing and have patience you will soon see the results of your hard work. Do exchange links, press release, put your link on forum sig.
Thank you very much for all of your replies It's very helpful to me. I planned to 1. Submit Article 2. Press release 3. Keep quality content 4. Link Exchange with themed sites 5. On-page optimization 6. Find one-way links from all ways (related to non-related but not linkfarms.) Cheers, Sxperm
2. Is PPC ads powerful and worth for money? Regarding adamjthomson's advice on being able to track conversions, I could not agree more wholeheartedly. We finally developed tags to track the conversions from adwords clicks and it was far lower than we expected. I did not have very high expectations either. It is worth repeating that the more targeted you are on your keywords the better your success will be with adwords.
Hey, maybe you can try autoresponder. It does work with me, if you are interested you can PM me..^_^..