Top 10 tips & tricks of SEO

I suggest not to go for paid sites..Better go for free regular submissions...

 

Most directories will only accept homepages.

 

Can you tell me why not to do so?

 

I disagree so much with this stuff.
More than 30 directories is fine, just keep it quality. Google doesn't even crawl directories every 24 hours. Many get crawled about once a week. They have NO idea when the link actually showed up. Put links out there, and put a lot out there. Just make sure you can keep up the pace.
Aside from that, deeplinking is GOD. Here's a fact. I have not sent out a single link to the home page for my site. All deep links. And yet, miraculously, not only is my home page indexed, it ranks higher than the other pages!

Any page within your site that gets linked to from every, or almost every, page within your site, is assumed to be the home page, or other significant page within the site.

PS: Directories are wastes of time.
I've broken the captcha to a few, and that code sits unused, gathering e-dust on my hard drive. It's just not worth it.

 

The article will get duplicated..

 

I don't know, i could be ignorant, but people like google and yahoo are becoming so effective in roboting, that they even find pages I don't want them to find. i put up a few test pages and forgot the no-index, no-follow meta tag attributes and to my horror, my test pages came up on google. I honestly don't really bother with submissions any no longer as these things are getting so good at roboting that resubmissions (or maybe even submissions at all) are becoming obsolete. I bother with content and when it comes to google, it's pretty simple. Get as many legitimate, relevent pages as you can to link to you. For example, if you are a member of an association of some type, then get all of the members that have a website to link to each other. Suddenly, google sees 50 pages linking to you, that all have similar material and then BANG, you'll jump thousands of positions. And there is nothing tricky or sneaky about it as google has clearly disclosed that this is the main way their algorithm works.

Is this old news? sorry if it is.

 

I use server side includes for my nav, so therefore, every page on my site links to every other page. So what would google do in that situation?

 

Google counts Quality links linking to your website rather than quantity..I don't say that google doesn't bothers quantity but it concentrate more on quality links...Anyways I appreciate your ideas..

 

Good I will try for my new sites!!

 

Great..for more information please PM me

 

Yes, i said relevant and similar pages, but I should have said quality or legitimate pages.

 

In directory submissions it is perfectly appropriate to submit inner pages. There are at least two legitimate ways to do it:
1) Some featured links allow inner pages. Read each directory's guidelines.
2) Some regular submissions allow additional deep links.

And of course deep links are good. You cannot possibly optimize your home page for all the keywords you want to emphasize. There are other keywords that you'll be able to optimize only on your inner pages. And it is a positive strategy to secure links to these inner pages with anchor text using your targeted keywords. Directories are a helpful way to accomplish this.

 

The problem with directories is that sometimes they take months to add your site... especially the popular ones. Adding your link is one thing, but them actually approving your link in a timely manner is a different story.. for some of them anyways.

 

I would NOT submit to 30 directories per day. Many directories do not help with SEO, and they can hurt you too. Submitting to 30 directories per day implies you can find 900 diretories with PR of 4 or higher, and this is just for 1 month. I really believe that quality is the most important factor for links. And if you have a large percentage of directory links, you will never be higher than a PR 3 or maybe 4 if you are lucky.

 

I expect that the home page would still be given extra weight. I know google bothers to detect privacy policies, and detecting the actual home page is infinitely easier.
However, all pages that are on the nav would get some weight. For example, if you have an article with 2 pages, I can almost(Google is a strange and wild beast) guarantee you that the first page, linked to off the nav, would rank higher than page 2.

 

PR is not that important. You need a fair amount of your links to hold PR, but you don't need them all to be. I mean really, think about it.
Next time you see a blackhat site spanking a whitehat site with some 1500 blogspot blogs, look at the PR of those blogspot blogs. In most cases, it does not exist. It's just not there. And it doesn't matter.
The fact that the link exists, and the site doesn't have 99999 outgoing links is enough. Even a small amount of linkjuice behind the blog is more than enough to push the site out in front of the SEs.

 

This is true. But as webmasters, we must be thinking in terms of months and years, as well as days and weeks. Keep submitting to directories, and in due course of time most of them will be approved, and your links will steadily grow.

 

I have heard that major search engine doesnot like paid directory so choose the one with high PR if you are going for paid directory submission.

 

Of course. But oftentimes Featured links and deep links in those directories that permit them will allow pages other than your home page. And that is a good thing, not something to avoid. Links to inner pages are good, whether from directories or other sources.

 

An example of when this can come in handy is when you add a new content section to your site, and need new categories in the directories.