Get the Most Out of Web Directories and Article Directories
There are ways around promoting your site. And it isn’t even going to cost you
a cent (only a bit of your time). There are what we call web directories
and article directories. Web directories, simply, are directories of
various categories containing website listings. On the other hand, article
directories are directories also containing various categories where you can
publish your articles. Why mention the two? You’ll soon find out.
First off, are web directories. Did you know that there hundreds
of web directories exist all across the net? What you do is you
submit your site to these directories, and there you go – instant links to your
site! Did you also know that most of those web directories
are free? That’s right, they won’t charge you anything (maybe just some
occasional link backs to their site – “reciprocal linking”). What matters is
that a site is linking back to your site. If you do this with hundreds of
other web directories (thousands, if you have the time and
perseverance), you would have that many sites linking back to you. By doing so,
your link popularity will increase. Link popularity is the number of links
pointing back to your site (the more links, and the higher their PR, the
better). It also the basis on how search engines would rank your site. If a
search engine sees that you have high link popularity, they would see your site
to be important, and rank you accordingly.
Next are article directories. I know what you’re thinking. How would articles
help your site get traffic? First reason – by submitting to article
directories, you will have the chance to promote your site through the resource
box or author’s biography. Like web directories, several hundred
article directories exist. And again, they are also free. What you want
are directories that let you submit and use their other articles for free.
Why use free articles? Second reason – if your site is lacking content
and you want people to regularly visit you, use these free articles
as your web content (always include the author and source). With your
site having more content, more traffic will eventually come to you.
These are two ways of boosting your link popularity, page rank, and of
course, traffic. Other than these, you can try getting inbound links
through forum participation and link partnership with sites that are related to
yours (but that’s another story). I hope you would find this useful, so enlist
to web directories and write your articles now.
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