Directories, everyone knows about Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc… but what about all the niche directories? Did you know that there are about 1200 directories you can get a link in? Did you know that about 1000 of them don’t want anything from you?
YEA free links from all kinds of sites. Well almost free you either have to go through and search or you can hire it out.
Well I do directory submissions and for $450 I can get your site submitted to around 900 directories. These are directories that have been set up for all kinds of reasons, many carry a good PR, and you will get a listing of the directories your submitted and what was submitted to them.
You provide your home page URL, an email address (some sites require confirmation that you need to take care of, I will for an additional fee), keywords, descriptions, name, address and other information and within about 10 days you will have been submitted to at least 900 directories.
This is an astoundingly excellent way to get hundreds of backlinks that get spread out over time. Most of the directories do not list you right away, they have a backlog of sites to list, so the links start coming in right away and then continue over time as your submission is included in more and more directories and then crawled by the SE’s
If you would like to know more about this service please feel to email me at sparky@birrenbach.com
Sparky
UPDATE: Aug 2009 I have submitted many sites to the directories and each are reporting excellent results, I have an ongoing arrangement with a major SEO firm to submit sites that they get contracts for.
Getting into the first page of Google is a mystery to many. How do you get into the tops in google, what do you do, what should you avoid?
Lots of questions with lots of people saying they know how to do it. Do they? Some do, like myself. Can they prove it? Some can, I know I can. A little over a couple months ago my Gourmet Coffee Site was burried in google for a variety of search terms. Seeing that I already ranked in the Mid 50’s for the term flavored coffee I decided it was time to find a way to get into the first page. Well I did it. If you search google for Flavored Coffee you will find Coffee-n-Caffeine in the first page.
How I did it is really not that difficult to understand when you think about google and it’s engineers who fix the formula that google uses in order to give you the results you see. That is the key, thinking how should we change the formula so that Important Sites show up first.
The first thing to think about is your site. is it coded so that google can index the site? Do you have lots of Unique Content? Do you add to your content regularly? If you can answer yes to these questions, google notices. Obviously if google can not crawl the pages of your site your content means nothing. If your content is good enough and is original then google says New Info we need to index and evaluate. If your site is changing on a regular, or semi regular basis google comes back more often to see what is changing and index that as well.
Now google has your site, has your content why are you not showing up? Probably for a variety of reasons the most important of which is how many times is your site mentioned and linked to on the rest of the internet. This is kind of like a popularity contest. The more sites that link to you the more important you are. The more highly ranked sites that link to you the more important your site is. Think of it this way, your site is like a kid in highschool. If your sought after and have lots of friends your considered to be more popular, and you have more friends and it becomes a viral sort of thing.
So how do you go about getting links to your site? One way is to use a technique whereby you trade a link from your site to other related sites in exchange for a link back. Unfortunately if your site doesn’t rank very high other high ranking sites are not going to want to link to you. So how do you get these links to your site?
One way is to write and submit articles to various websites. There are many websites out there that are essentially blog, and web 2.0 sites, that are a base of information for people to find information. They use blogs, forums and other methods for people to communicate and share information with each other. The greater the activity, the more popular the topic the higher the site will rank with google.
Another way is to use some of these same sites that will allow you to create profiles where you can put information about yourself in them. In there you can put links to your site along with key words or phrases that you wish to rank well for. These are called backlinks, one way links to your site which google looks at and says their is a link to your site and googles bots follow it. The higher ranking the site the better the result.
The problem for most is finding these sites and getting yourself and your content into the sites so that you get the links back to your site. You can if you wish hunt these sites down, or you can hire people who will do it for you. I have signed up with a number of services that allow me to submit articles, blog entries and other content out onto these sites. I have also found so many of the sites that allow you to place a link to your site that between the two I can take a site that is not on the radar screen of google and put you into the top.
It is not a fast process. Anyone who tells you they can get you into the tops of google in a month… DO NOT BELEIVE IT.. Yea they probably can get you into google in a month, but you will not stay there. These are called BlackHat SEO artists and while their techniques may work, they are more likely to get you banned by google. Using natural looking techniques and providing content to the internet is a much better long term (3-4 months) way of getting yourself into the tops in google. You do not want to ROCKET to the top, you want to climb to the top naturally so you do not get blacklisted by the search engines.
Sparky