Hi, I want to start a new off-page SEO project. Until now for a period of a few months I developed the website, I uploaded good and unique content. Optimizing the website engine and code. Now I wanna start the off-page SEO part I have some experience in SEO and with the last project I didn't have so much success maybe something it was wrong. Things done in the past : 1. For a period of 2 months I added regularly and by hand (not in automatic not using any software) , links to various web directories. Until now only 0.05% of the visitors arrived from that links. The PR 3 was the consequences of one powerful link that I added on another project owned by me. Should I choose some software to do that in automatic instead of loosing so much time ? 2. I wrote good and unique articles (10) that was distributed with iSnare but no results until now. First article posted 45 days ago. Maybe I choose the wrong article distribution network... 3. I put different post in some forums related to the subject, in some part they thought it was spam, maybe yes maybe not, anyway the website has good quality unique and daily new content. And all the post was related to some subject on the website. Anyway this was the most powerful way that made visitors to visit that project. But this is the most time consuming one. 4. I tryed to add a link to DMOZ but since April it wasn't reviewed. What I intend to do with this new project : For this new project I want to start a campaign to ask for links or for reciprocal links with other websites related to my new project. What else should I do ? A different approach for articles that I write related to the subject ?
1.) PR3 is a joint influence of all what you have done by now (as for PR distribution), every directory listing counts (if it is not on page that is banned or disregarded by SEs). You will never see a real traffic comming from general directories - THEY ARE USELESS in terms of traffic - but they give you some portion of the PR the PAGE (NOT THE WHOLE SITE) your link landed on has got; 2.)iSnare is the best. If there´s no result within 2 months, you probably over estimated your topic attractiveness (or your writing abilities.... no offense... I heve not seen those articles); 3.)This must be a sort of fun for you. I really do not understand why they considered your posts a spam if it was not a spam (or was it?). Fora and blog comments will help you very much, if you show your reputation. 4.)probably DMOZ got wors since the time I used it the last time. PM me what is that project about (no details, just are you selling your own products, do you give for free some tools, etc...)...
are you getting any traffic. If you are then it is working. SEO takes time. I write an article every day and I send it out. I use forum posting as a way to learn and share. I place my sig just as an extra boost for me to do it. Articles also get stolen A LOT. from one of my articles I found about 5 sites with no link to my site. some sites place a link to the artcle site which does nothing for me really because the page rank from the article site is bad. jsut keep trying and make sure you use anchor text for the key words you want.
Link stealing.. yes also it happened to me. I found on one website the anchor from the article with some letters changed or missing and on many other website the links are missing. But what elso could I do to increase the number of visitors ?