More Linking

Why is he still talking about linking? Ok, maybe you didn’t ask, but let me humor  myself, its April fools day, i have no April fools jokes, deal with it…

Why am i still talking about linking, i believe SEO is basically in two sections, link trading and web copy writing. I am very good at web copy writing, I can see that you are surprised, you wouldn’t have believed it unless i told you, right? Linking, however, I find hard. I find linking difficult, i am always looking for ways to make my linking easier, if there was one thing that would make me quit SEO, it would be linking( hence i am writing about it.)

Directory Submissions

What kind of linking am i talking about? It’s the kind that you get one link, one way from one site (said site being a web directory). There are quite a few web directories online, this is quite fortunate for people looking for links, a lot of them are free, you get these links by submitting your URL to said directories, these directories will almost always accept your link after some time if you have some content on your site. Once you have filled their application form, all you have to do is wait; waiting is the easy part.

Basically i endeavor to let a colleague of mine do all the linking work when we are given a project, i just e-mail him, “Dave i need links for www.whateversite_iamworking_on.com”. Dave (I hope i am making him famous) delivers, but you see Dave doesn’t just deliver, Dave delivers big! I am talking 1000 one-way-back-links-in-a-few-months-deliver. Dave team is patient, because i was climbing up walls the last two times i delivered 150 back-links a month , i was looking for the nearest directory submission service, it was physically painful. There, now if you do not have Dave around you and what i just said does not sound like what you want to go through. Just go, here , here and here. there you have some directory submission sites, and they charge way less than i do.

Automated Submission Services

In my place of pain, while linking, I started searching for automated submission services. No luck, they just auto fill the tabs, and guess what? Sometimes they fill it wrong, and they never fill the CAPTCHA. Sometimes whoever designs the directory website does not design the form fields properly, so the name field looks like URL field and optional phone number field looks like email address. Its almost impossible for these automated submission packages to get any thing right! Try www.submithelper.com to see how it works.

Which Is Which

Another problem is that when you start looking for a listing of directories you get a whole bunch of them, A great list is this one here at one way links, they have like one thousand two hundred links, and you can just sit on the site and fill up all the fields, just use auto-fill after like the 20th form instead of picking up a submission software (or even worse, paying for it).

Now what will be your success rate? I can guarantee you that it will be inversely proportional to the the page rank of the directory, a lot of 0 page rank (probably all) directories will link to you , and almost 75 percent of the pagerank 1-4 directories will accept your URL, another 25 percent of 4-6, by the time you get to 7 , maybe one out of every 50 , PR9, you better have really good content, and even then.

The downside about free sites is that everybody knows about them, and so every body that desires to optimize in one form or the other applies, and since its free they have a lot of back log, approval can take a very long time, sometimes they may not get to you for several months. Free directory submission is best done in a fatalistic manner, you get some runs , you get some strikes!

That said you can just go and pay for a directory link, several lists for paid directories can be found here, here and here, note that Yahoo charges 299 dollars for a directory listing. Maybe i need to upgrade myself, that sounds rather high, and i consider my self an extravagant fellow. How ever these links are good if they are old and recognized.

Directory submissions are the bread and butter of any linking campaign, you get one way links and your only limit (like any other linking project) is the amount of time you are willing to invest in it. Any website that has a theme: even an e-commerce site or a search engine, will get accepted into directories. Content that you add can be products, new applications, whatever. Basically, any site that performs a function will get accepted on a directory.

There are various other ways to generate one way back links to your web site, and I intend to write about linking until i exhaust most of them.

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