If you were starting a new insurance / financial website with a lot of geo-specific unique content to share, what would your link campaign look like? Consider having a $1000 budget for paid links / directories and the rest being free, social promotion, and organic results. What would you do? Scripted auto submissions, etc?
I would 100% go for manual submissions. Don't use any script for that. Better hire someone to do it for you if you can't do it by yourself. Hope this helps
I would get as many backlinks from free directories first, dont spend the $1000 yet, do some social promotion, blog about your website, when things start happening begin your first analysis, see whats possible in the next 3 months from understanding your previous 3 months, is your site picking up, getting good traffic, lots of interest shown. After that, begin to research pay for review directories individually, do it yourself, dont trust what other people are telling you, if you dont know what you should be looking for just read through suitable threads, again dont ask as you will get conflicting, sometimes confusing and sometimes biased info. Understand the ROI that you would like to see, dont spend the $1000 all in one day, spread it out, dont look for pr, unless you submit to niche directories dont look for huge traffic either, keep tracking things, any doubts about a directory then dont submit. By doing it yourself you will truely be able to understand things properly and see whats happening with your invested money and time.
I agree 100%. Now, with that in mind... How many sites would you spend your time submitting to? How many in the beginning launch and how many each month? Also take into consideration you can afford to pay for some better links and directories (business.com, yahoo, etc.)
I get a ton of similar submissions every day, all the site look identical, similar formulation,,,,, An they all go for free submission,,,, Obviously, one cannot list them all, not even most of them Do it manually, an go for paid submissions as well as free
So if you had to decide on paid links, say you do 10 submissions for your site a day and of those 10, how many are paid directories... Also, if you're starting off with big money directories like yahoo.com, which of those do you pick?
Few of my items of agenda for a new website Upload the content Let it age for a month or so Then start blogging about it, buy few blogposts in high pr blog Do it for two weeks or so with new articles for each blog Then start linkbuilding, get links from low pr websites, dont buy them, rather exchange Once you are up with few hundred links, then go for purchasing few high pr links The start submission to directories, purchase few spots here too Submit to article directories, only few, dont post to hundreds of directories-its of no use Post few comments in related forums and blogs Repeat the process also spend money in the process and dont just spend it because you have it While spending with caution you will find some real good offers in forums like DP etal
Well this situation is a bit bigger than just myself. I'm in charge of the marketing for a company that produces a very large website every 2 weeks or so. If I wanted to rush this process along and maybe have 10 directory submissions a day, with paid blogging and our blogging promoting it, etc.. what would the ideal be? 10 sites a day? 200 at once? how many paid vs free?
I'd have to assume that Google could not put any value to what is being typed in a forum environment with your links on that page. Google has no way of knowing if the original poster or a competitor is trying to spam the value of the link on that page to be either valuable or invaluable. I do believe that having a "Sponsored Links" or "Paid Links" category on your website is not a good idea, but using the language across the web has no adverse effect in my opinion. I'm more focused on correctly submitting my website without over doing it.
There is no general rule on how many free submissions vs. paid submissions you should do on daily basis. Also bear in mind that not all the submissions will be approved on the same day. For free directories it may take between hours and several months while in paid directory's case it might take between 12 hours and 7 working days. It really depends...
Yeah that was my understanding of the issue. Here's my gameplan. Spend $705 on Yahoo, Aviva, Botw, and 25 $10 Featured Links over time. Submit to 200 free directories + the featured / paid directories over time. 10 free a day + 1 featured a day, blog and post as I go. What you think?
Wrong! It seems that you don't get the idea. Please read what Pipes said somewhere above. It is not about how much you are spending on daily basis...it is about quality more than quantity. 100 quality backlinks from excellent directories might worth more than 500 submissions in silly & spammy web resources so do a bit of research first
I'm talking about doing all of my research in the front end before actually submitting. This is only a time based strategy on how to get into the quality directories. I'd be using vile silencer and directory critic as my list, also with niche specific directories I have come across. We already have other campaigns running for promotion. I'm kind of thinking we need to have a service submit for us (such as the one at vilesilencer) due to the amount of work we need to get done and the relative cost for the service. What do you think?
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But - are you sure those manual submission professionals are doing it 100% manually? From what I hear- most of them use semi-automated softwares which is also not of benefit. @OP- What my friend loredan says is 100% true. But I would suggest- (if you have time) -- to visit popular webmasters forums like DP regularly and submit to 4/5 new directories daily which are announced all the time. True, most of those directories vanish quickly into the cyber wildeness- but 10% of them survive and have potentials to offer high incentive in the future. Just take it slow and grow normally. With the passage of time - you will be naturally rewarded. Also you may list to some quality directories that have already established themselves-- http://www.bestinternetresource.info/birblog/2007/06/17/authority-web-directories/
The way I see it, if you're going to just submit to 2200 directories with 15 websites, it can't really hurt. I still intend on natural growth but I'm managing such a large network that I need a kick start. It's hard to manage 4-5 submissions a day when you're doing 15 sites.