One Way Linking Strategies Using Link Directories

One Way Linking Strategies Using Link Directories

Introduction:

Building high quality links to your website is one of the most important things that you can do to improve your search engine rankings. You can think of these links as votes in favor of your website (this is the way the search engines see it). Acquiring high quality links for your site can be very time consuming; however, it is a very important thing to do if you want to get great search engine rankings.

Before I continue, let me quickly define Link Popularity (link pop) for you. Link Popularity simply refers to the amount and quality of inbound links to your site. There are many free tools available on the internet for checking your link popularity.

How Link Directories Can Help You

Using link directories is one of the best ways to get quality links to your site. Just so you know, a link directory is a web site that has a large aggregation of links which are organized by topic. People who are searching for a particular type of web site will use link directories as an alternative to doing a search engine query.

There are thousands upon thousands of link directories out there to choose from. I recently typed the keywords 'link directories' in to Google and received 1,120,000 hits.

When you submít your site to a link directory, it is edited by a human. Your submission will either be accepted or rejected, depending on the quality of your site and whether it is relevant to the directory you are submitting to. If your site gets accepted, the users of the link directory will consider your site to be credible. Also, the search engines love links that point to your website from quality link directories.

You will want to have your link placed on as many link directories as you can. There are three reasons for doing this. First, you will get targeted traffíc to your site when people search the directory for your type of site. Second, you will improve your search engine rankings as your link popularity increases. Third, having links from link directories will help your web site pages to get indexed quickly.

Some Features Of Link Directories

When you submít to a link directory, you are usually given 3 choices that look something like this:

Featured Links 

Regular Links 

Regular Links With Reciprocal 

The featured links will normally keep your listing towards the top of the list. There is always a charge for featured links (this is one of the ways that link exchanges make their money). The trouble here is that if a lot of people are buying featured links for a particular category, you may still be pushed quite a way down the list.

With a lot of link directories, the regular links and the regular links with reciprocal are offered for free. When I submit to directories, I always choose regular links and I only choose free ones. Listen, there is such an overwhelming number of link directories out there, that if you start paying for your submissions, you will quickly empty your bank account. There are plenty of free ones to choose from (just type free link directories into Google, and you will be surprised at the numbers). 

A final note here is always choose the regular link (one way) as opposed to the reciprocal option. These days, search engines consider one way links to be more valuable than reciprocal links (reciprocal links are still OK, but they are not as good as one way links).

Link directories are ranked by Google just like any other web site. The range in page rank will be between 0 and 8. You will want to spread your submissions between all of the page rank values. This will make your links look more natural in the eyes of the search engines.

The Submission Process

There are basically three ways that you can carry out the submission process.

1. Sign in to your favorite search engine and type in "free link directories". You will get enough hits here to keep you busy with submitting for the rest of your days. 

2. Purchase one of the many link directory submission software packages out there. These packages are normally semi-automated and will save you a huge amount of time.

3. You can pay someone to do the submitting for you. There are plenty of web sites that will offer to do your submissions for a fee, but be careful, as some of them are quite spammy. Make sure to do your due diligence first. You should aim to do about 200 to 300 submissions per month.

Good luck with your linking campaign. Remember the importance of using link directories as a key strategy for gaining targeted traffíc to your website. 

About The Author

I live in Delta, British Columbia, Canada with my wife and 2 boys. I am a full time Paramedic and I love my career. In my spare time, I may be found flying, hiking, renovating our house or playing sports with the boys. Check out my affiliate marketing website: www.wealth-dynamo.com

One Way Linking...

One way linking means that a web site links to your web site, but you don’t link back to that web site. One way links are also known as non-reciprocal links.It is more valuable as they appear to be a more “natural” way of linking between web sites. One way linkinkg is more valuable than reciprocal links in terms of boosting your web site’s link popularity, therefore the more one way links your web site has, the higher your web site’s link popularity.

Advantages:
1)Increases your link popularity more than reciprocal links

2)Can Be Free

3) Increases page rank

4) The site is submitted to related category.


Check with the below keywords.... Use them for searching niches reated to your websites.....

“Suggest link” +”keyword”
“Suggest a link” +”keyword”
“Suggest site” + “keyword”
“Suggest website” + “keyword”
“Suggest a site” + “keyword”
“Suggest URL” +”keyword”
“Suggest a URL” +”keyword”
“Suggest an URL” +”keyword”
“Submit link” +”keyword”
“Submit Website” +”keyword”
“Submit resources” + “Keyword”
“Submit site” +”keyword”
“Submit a site” +”keyword”
“Submit URL” +”keyword”
“Submit a URL” +”keyword”
“Submit an URL” +”keyword”
“Submit resources” + “Keyword”
directory +”keyword”
directories +”keyword”
List of “Keyword” Directory
“Your Category” +”add url”
“Your Category” +directory
“Your Category” +”submit site”
“recommended links” +”keyword”
“Your Niche Category” +”suggest a site”
“favorite links” +”keyword”
“Add link” +”keyword”
“Add site” +”keyword”
“Add website” +”keyword”
“Add a site” +”keyword”
“Add URL” +”keyword”
“Add a URL” +”keyword”
“Add an URL” +”keyword”
“Add resources” + “Keyword”

Basic Steps In SEO

Basic Steps In SEO

Website owners are hiring SEO companies to get them to the top of Google, Yahoo, and MSN. They are paying thousands and thousands of dollars for some easy tasks. Here are a few simple steps you can do instead of hiring a SEO company.

Keywords

Keywords are basically words and phrases that can describe your website and different pages. To achieve a good placement, on search engines, you must have the appropriate positioning and density of keywords or phrases you chose. Keep keywords on topic and they will greatly help your site when ranked on search engines.

URLs

Page URLs are the first thing that search engines see when they crawl your site. A very easy SEO tip is to include keywords in your URL titles. This will provide even more keys words for the search engines. Your URLs should also be easy for search engines to read.

Meta Tags

Meta tags are information tags that are placed in a web page that are not seen by users. They are intended for search engines and other applications. These are getting less and less important but keywords placed as meta tags will always help.

Title Tags

Title tags are used to describe your site or page. Here is another great place to put keywords. In fact you should only place keywords in the title.

Content

Content is the key to any good website. Users come to your site because the content is helpful and interesting. Within the content is where the keywords should be. You should make sure all content is spelt correctly and you use the correct grammar. I cannot emphasize how important content is - It is everything!!!

Quick Summary

There are some easy steps you can take to improve your search engine ranking. Some easy steps include: putting keywords within your content, meta tags and title tags. Your URLs should be easy to read and contain keywords. You should also write good quality content that contains keywords, should be spelt correctly and should contain the correct grammar. All of these are simple SEO tips that can improve your search engine rankings.