What’s The Purpose Of Link Building And Directory Submission?
If you own a website and you’re looking for ways to generate traffic towards your site, then you’ve probably heard about directory submission. One of the most preferred methods of link building, directory submission is used by webmasters to increase the credibility of their website. How does this happen? That’s what we’re here to discuss.
Of all the millions of websites out there, each one has common goals – to build a high reputation and get a lot of visitors. Reputation, in internet jargon can also be called as authority and is often gauged by the Google Page Rank or the position of the site in the search engine results page (SERPs). So say you are selling curry and the keyword you are targeting is “Indian curry” then your goal is to be on the first page of SERPs. To do this, you need to have a high page ranking. PR 4 is usually indicative of a high authority. But how do you get to PR 4?
Thorugh link building of course! When we say link building, we mean having a link on one site which is pointing to your site – something that redirects Google spiders from a certain site to get to your site. This is where directory submission comes in. Most directories are already human edited so someone actually checks what your site is all about and whether your description and category matches what you wrote in the submission form. Sometimes, if these don’t match, editors might reject your site and you have to resubmit. Other websites will also require that you put an HTML link from your site to theirs, making it a link exchange. Why the need for links?
Well, Google usually gives those sites which have a lot of links pointing to their site a higher page ranking! But we are just not after the number of links, we also want quality links. This means you need to make sure that the site you are linking with is relevant to your site so if you are selling curry, then you shouldn’t link with sites which features musical instruments, unless you are selling Indian curry in particular, and then you can link with a site selling Indian musical instruments, etc. Through manual directory submission, you can choose the category where your site belongs so you can be sure that you’re going to get a higher page rank.
But getting a high page rank isn’t the only reason for link building. As a matter of fact, getting a high page rank isn’t the end goal. Getting a high page rank and building as many links as you can is focused on getting traffic – the more people visiting your site, the better. Again, we are talking about targeted traffic – we want people who are already interested with the product or service we are selling as this gives us a higher chance of making a sale. That’s the reason why you need to link with a site relevant to what you’re offering, this way, you don’t waste resources trying to convince people who are not interested with what you are selling.
Terry Pierce offers directory submissions to aid in your link building efforts. Our directory submit is a manual directory submission and will submit to directories of PR4 or greater. Find more details on his website at http://www.isellpagerank.com
Cool Fundraiser For Autism Research
Hi Folks!
Dan Reinhold, owner of WahumorWay.com , is holding his 2nd Annual Fundraiser For Autism Research. Supporting Autism research is very close to his heart … his son has it and he’s been working to draw MORE awareness to autism .Autism is becoming more widespread every day. Currently every 1 in 150 children born is the U.S. alone has been or soon is diagnosed with autism. He already personally donates 10% of his “gross” online income to the Autism Speaks organization.
This is his second year of working to raise even more awareness and money for this cause, so he’s reaching out to you for help.
ALL (100%) donations will go to the Greater Boston, Massachusetts Walk For Autism Research.
On top of donating to this worthwhile charity, you also get some great products! To that end, Dan has put together some REALLY KOOL deals with:
Lynn Terry
Jeremy Palmer
Alice Seba
Jimmy D. Brown
Nicole Dean
Pat O’Bryan
Chris Garrett
Tiffany Dow
Mari Smith
Kelly McCausey
And MORE …
This event ends on Sunday, October 12, 2008. So please DO check out his website for ALL the details at:
http://www.wahumorway.com/wahumor/WonderfulWAHumorGiveaway.html
THANKS!
Tags: autism, autism research, fundraising for autism research, dan reinhold
Low Cost Advertising
A business without a sign is a sign of no business. This is an advertising banner or quotation that can be seen in large billboards along the roads and on the side or top of buildings that is vacant. Television and radio would say, This program would not be shown or be heard without advertisement. It is true since most of us are watching the free television channel and programs are produced by payments of advertisements.
Low Cost Advertising
Business owners understand how important an advertisement is. It is in this manner that they would tell to everybody that they are selling products and offering services. They would not have sales, which in turn give them profit, if people would not notice and buy their products and avail of their services.
However, it is not happy to note that there are people who would try to steal money from advertisers and business owners by offering cheap advertisement packages and not delivering the agreed service. Business owners and advertisers should be informed of this because they would become victims of a scam.
The scam here is when the advertiser paid for these different kinds of services but none or some of them are not really even performed. The main point to consider here is to whom is the advertiser transacting with. To avoid being ripped off doing a background check by knowing the following will help.
-past successful projects as evident on customers comments
-a good reputation that will be confirmed by his references, (people that he’s had past transaction with and that are also reputable)
The pay-per-click ad campaign is when an advertiser would pay a certain agreed amount by the search engine developers every time a user clicks on that banner. This was a good idea before it was not touched by hackers who developed a certain program to automatically click on that banner which increases the amount to be paid by the advertiser. The next paying scheme was the pay per action, which is harder to hack since the advertiser would only pay the search engine developers an agreed amount every time a sale would be done on that customer.
Internet Advertising
One thing is for sure, advertising in the Internet is not easy but it is fun, especially when one understands fully the power of the Internet. It is not a unidirectional means of advertising like the television or radio, but it is an interactive avenue for both the advertiser and the prospective clients.
