<![CDATA[Few webmasters realize the real potential of the web directories. However, the ones who do always manage to reap the rewards of a good web directory submission campaign. This is, on many occasions, what makes the difference between existing on the World Wide Web and not being visible at all. So what exactly are web directories? Well, it is what the name states. It is a directory which contains links to other websites on the Internet. It manages and categorizes the site submissions it receives based on each site’s theme. Many people confuse the link directory with the search engine. While the former simply manages categories and places the web sites in the category that they belong to, the latter displays the sites based on the keywords that represent them. There are various types of web directories. Depending on the subjects they cover, they can be either general directories or specialized directories. The general directories cover any theme, and they have broad thematic coverage. In other words, any site can make a submission to these directories, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the policies (for instance, there are directories which don’t accept adult or gambling sites, but there are some which accept them). Then, there are specialized directories, and these cover a specific niche, which can be anything from a regional approach to a specific subject like Medicine, Marketing, etc. The best thing to do if you own a site and want to promote it is to submit to the general directories and then find out if there are any niche directories that you could submit to. Another classification is by the fees they charge. There are free directories and paid directories, and they are self-explanatory regarding what they mean. Also, another category which is between these two is reciprocal link directories, which means that you will have to link back to them from your own site. This seems like free submission but it isn’t quite like that. The main two advantages of web directory submissions are the extra traffic you get and the backlinks to your own site (which is good for your search engine rankings and which ultimately also turns into traffic). However, if you do it strictly for the backlinks, make sure that the directories you submit to don’t associate the “nofollow” attribute with the link (which basically means that the search engine will not follow the respective link). The most notorious web directories are the Yahoo Directory and DMOZ (the Open Directory Project). The Yahoo Directory has two options, a free one and a paid one, and DMOZ is free (however, you will probably have to wait a few months until you get included, because the links are manually reviewed and included in the directory by a group of volunteers). But in the end, it’s well worth it because if you make a consistent web directory submission campaign, you will certainly see great results.

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<![CDATA[1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

Sonika Mishra is a SEO and an emerging author in the field of technology. She is associated with Elixir Web Solutions "http://www.elixirwebsolutions.com", which is a Web Design Company software development, dynamic website design and development , e-commerce application development, ethical search engine optimization company in New Delhi, India.]]>

<![CDATA[There are altered ways to become popular in bit and it is always an velvet to your commotion if you are popular. But lingo about the internet world, becoming popular is some what different; here you need to be an expert to mark a presence. Just by making a website, you cannot expect business to flow, you need to be there in front of the customers, and all this sounds really fascinating but to gain incoming traffic on the internet is a complex process. Link building is one undifferentiated work that is constitutive by every website to neb adding to a hypothesis on the internet. Thus every website pacesetter saves some of his or her time to spent on building links to grow your market and circle in which you do your business. It is something like a give and take strategy. You agree to put the link of a website on your home page and that website offers you the same service. Thus if someone visits that website, your link will be visible to them. Hence you will be noticed by people not directly but indirectly, this is the magic of link building. To perform unrivaled lucre out of the wed lean-to path you requisite introduce your web site with a genuine content full of keywords and a nice little description about the feel of the website. A link exchange program gets off with your advertisement almost 200-300 words long. It must be a really informative & full of keywords. Try to put the keywords in capital letters. The three profitable entwine den columns include: The Title, which is a point of your website. Description: a exorbitant one with comely gravy of keywords. Finally the URL Once you are done with this, you gander for websites or dictionaries that entrust set-to affix with you. Some dictionaries and manage to this life as a selfsame link. If you submit your link on a dictionary, then the dictionary will ask for a reciprocal link where the dictionarys link can be placed, this is actually your own URL. Once you fill the form in the dictionary, your link will be placed in it. Remember to put your link in the appropriate category as almost every link building dictionary has categories. For instance of you are having a flower website, then place your link in related category, like gifts or florists etc. Finally your conjugate consign be uploaded and you commit these days demand with exorbitant traffic influx. This is what blend funny provides you, for love marketing.

Ahmad M Bajeaifir is the author of this article on Link
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Now just when the directory model was becoming a bore and the market was dying out of ideas, the next refreshing think to hit the directory market was "Link Bid type of directories"

In this article I would share with you the details on how these type of directories work and a few personal thoughts.

The two primary factors that add an appeal to a bid directory are :

1. Ability to control ones link placement for maximum PR juice and traffic exposure.
2. Strong permanent backlinks for a very reasonable price

The first point primary covers how a bid directory functions.

Let take an example and explain this. Let have a look at http://www.bigweblinks.com/

The structure of a bid directory is very much like a conventional web directory. You have relevant categories for your link suggestion and once you have decided on an appropriate category for your weblink, you can use a submit form to request inclusion for a premium. Now, the interesting part comes in. The specialty of bid directories is that one can feature their links on the homepage for maximum exposure and PR juice by bidding the highest amount for ones weblink. Say I bid 50$ in flavor of my weblink, now if there are no bids greater than 50$, automatically my link is promoted to the homepage.

Usually a bid directory would feature the top 5 or the top 10 bids in the homepage.Some of you must be grumbling that you would not have a budget to bid for the top spots.Thats the beauty of bid directories, the benefit rolls out in two phases with even people with a smaller budget being able to participate in the fun and get quality backlinks for their websites.How? It may be necessary to be among the top ten or the top five bidders to make a homepage feature but you can still bid for a strong category page listing for a minimal amount of 1$ or in a few case a 5$ or a 10$ minimum bid.

With practically a budget of 200 bucks, you can get 100+ "PERMANENT" quality backlinks for your websites.
That has to be the cheapest and the most cost effective way to build ones backlink portfolio.The fun does not end here, if you get a raise in your budget you can place additional bids to fight your claim for the top spots. The first bid gets your link in the directory index and future bids on the same weblink raise you position in the bid directory index if you already dont hold the top spot, with the higher bid being place ahead of the immediate lower bid. Say we have 3 bids of 1$;Link A , 5 $;Link B and 10$;Link C for a particular category. In this case the links would be placed in such a sequence

~Bid Directory Category
1.Link C - 10$
2.Link B - 5$
3.Link A - 1$
Now if you add an additional bid of 6$ to Link B the placement sequence would change as such

~Bid Directory Category
1.Link B - 11$
2.Link C - 10$
3.Link A - 1 $

The beauty of bid directories is that the highest and the lowest bids can coexist in the directory index.
Someone did ask me that with so many bid directories coming by the day how would one choose the best bid directories.
Well i follow a simple rule which you could also use to determine the best bid directories.

Firstly, the popularity of some bid directories are pretty obvious with the visible marketing effort one can see in the webmaster circle, so you would not have a problem choosing them to bid your links.

Now the second type of bid directories are ones with a good PR, if you are happy with the green thing in your toolbar you can bid for a few of your links.
A little warning here, the phenomenon of setting up directories at dropped domains with good PR is at large. Be wary of these directories as most of them see a big PR drop after just a single update. Remember if a domain name does not make sense (I have seen insurance domains being used as bid directories), do a background check for the domain to see if it is a dropped domain. Once you are sure that the domain is a dropped domain, you can follow two ways to approach the situation. One can be that you decide to wait for a PR update to see if the PR is being penalized of if you are looking for immediate backlinks, you can place a minimal bid for your links.
The last category of bid directories are the newly launched bid directories that's may or may not be promoted. These are the most visible one at the moment and the approach I follow is to place a minimal bid with plans to revisit them after a PR updates.

I hate to admit but PR sells
Hope this helped you in understanding the bid directory concept and was of some use to you.
Personally I feel that Bid Directories would soon feature as a promotion model in every SEO company's or enthusiast's link building strategy.

Kiviniar is a web directory enthusiast who write
his own directory blog and has a strong interest towards photography and anime.]]>

<![CDATA[One of the biggest tools in your box at the moment should be social bookmarking sites. They have revolutionized the way people search for news, based not on what the big media corporations broadcast to us, but rather using a social recommendations engine.

A quick visit to Alexa will confirm that the biggest, and most powerful of these sites is Digg, the brainchild of Kevin Rose. Anyone can submit a story to Digg, and it is then up to the community to decide which get promoted. Catchy stories, with a strong title, attract interest, and if the users think they are useful, entertaining or insightful they "digg" the story - in other words they vote for the story.

Popular stories then have a chance for the coveted homepage promotion. This is guaranteed to drive tons of traffic to your site.

How can you improve your chances of getting dugg to the front page?

1) Write killer content. The best way to the top is to have the best content.

2) Use a catchy headline. Digg users love compelling titles. Use something powerful, that suggests your link will solve a problem, or reveal something previously unknown to them.

3) Create your content about something digg users love. Well, the first thing you can be sure of is that they are digg users - so writing about the digg site itself will attract diggs. You can also be sure that something about Apple, or the latest gadget will get dugg.

4) Buy Diggs - this is an interesting one! There are sites around, for example www.igotdugg.com that exist to connect link submitters with potential diggers. You can pay about $0.50 - $1 per digg that you require.

Have fun digging and I hope this brings you lots of traffic!

You can find out more about digging for profit, or buying diggs at www.igotdugg.com]]>

<![CDATA[Bid-for-position web directories, or simply "bid directories", are an exciting new way to buy text links. As the name suggests these directories allow site owners and visitors to bid for a higher position in the listings. Traditional web directories, by contrast, list links by some predetermined criterion, such as alphabetical order, Google PageRank, listing date, and so on. Bid directories allow people not only to bid for a top position but also to increase their bids as needed to maintain the position.

Why buy text links? A site without links is like a business in the middle of nowhere. Links are the electronic roads that connects your site with the rest of the world. If "location, location, location" is the mantra for a building a successful brick-and-mortar business, then "links, links, links" should be one for a successful website. Besides being a source for direct traffic, text links help drive traffic to a site indirectly by increasing a site's rankings in search engine results.

Although natural links, i.e. links placed voluntarily by other webmasters to your site, are preferable to purchased ones, it may not be practical to rely on natural links alone, especially for a commercial site that competes with countless others offering similar products and services. Unless your site is truly unique and useful to people, a category to which most sites do not belong, buying links may be your best option to increase your link popularity.

The rules for buying text links on bid directories are similar to those on other sites. Simply put, you should buy links in a way that simulates natural linking. Your link profile looks more natural when your inbound links come from directories with a range of Google PageRanks (PR). Although there is natural tendency to target only high-PR directories, a link on a promising new bid directory, which may or may not have a PageRank, can be a good investment down the line. Besides, PR means nothing to other search engines, including Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL.

Perhaps the most important factor for deciding whether or not to buy a link on a certain bid directory is how aggressively it is marketed. The first question to ask is, how many other sites link to the directory in question? But marketing goes beyond the sheer number of inbound links. The next question to ask is, where are the links are coming from? You can get an idea of a site's link profile by querying "link:www.domainofinterest.com" (without the quotes) on Yahoo!. While inbound links from competing bid directories is certainly one way to build links to the directory, it should not be the only way. The directory's links look more natural when they come from diverse sources, including article directories, social bookmarking sites, blogs, and forums.

The Google PageRank of a directory is often a good indicator of how aggressively it is marketed, but PR could also be one of deception. For instance, an unscrupulous webmaster might replace the content of an existing PR-7 site with a potentially more lucrative bid directory and market it as a "PR-7 bid directory". A tell-tale sign that this has occured is when the domain name of the directory has nothing to do with web directories or search engines. Another good sign is when its category subpages are PR-0 or do not have PRs at all. That is not even to mention the many ways bogus PRs might be obtained.

Most bid directories are made from commercially available scripts customized to the siteowners' tastes. The level of customization is indicative of the directory owner's effort to stand out from the crowd and often their commitment to do whatever it takes to make their site succeed. So, all else being equal, it's better to go with a bid directory with a highly customized design than one that looks like a hundred others.

Many bid directories categorize links alphabetically by the first letters of their titles, as a telephone book lists people's names. These directories are not particularly useful to visitors looking for sites on a particular topic, say gardening. Visitors should not have to click on every letter from A through Z to find sites pertaining to gardening. Considerable time would be saved if the sites were categorized by topic, e.g. "Home and Garden", rather than the first letter of their titles. More importantly, links that are grouped with others of similar content are viewed as more relevant by the search engines than those grouped with unrelated sites. As an advertiser, you'll get more for your money from a directory that sifts sites into topical categories than one that uses alphabetical categories-- all else being equal.

Let me end this article with a word of caution. While bid directories should be a part of your link building campaign, don't put all your eggs in one basket by relying too heavily on them. There is a bit of a novelty factor in bid directories, and no one knows whether they will set a new trend in advertising or eventually die down as another fad.

Oudam is the webmaster of Top15Links.com, a bid-for-position web directory that allow site owners and visitors to bid for one of the top 15 position in each category. The top 15 links of all categories are prominently displayed on the home page. Top15Links.com employs a winning marketing strategy that puts 80% of link revenues back into promoting the site.

Oudam is the webmaster of Top15Links.com, a bid-for-position web directory that allow site owners and visitors to bid for one of the top 15 position in each category. The top 15 links of all categories are prominently displayed on the home page. Top15Links.com employs a winning marketing strategy that puts 80% of link revenues back into promoting the site.]]>