Search Engine Optimization that works!
A great way to increase your online presence is to submit your site to good quality web directories. Fabulous Links Web Directory is one such powerful directory.
The directory has over 700 sub categories and the most attractive categories include the News and Media section, Science and Technology, Entertainment and lots more.
Go ahead and have a look for yourself. On top of this there is also a competitive bid directory for some more fun!
Webmasters and website owners have to put in a lot of effort to look for the right directories where they can submit their websites to. With search engines paying more and more importance to back links and link popularity, website owners are always on the search to find web directories where they can submit their websites. A Directory of Directories comes in handy for website owners where they can easily find a list of directories, categorized according to topics, to which they can submit their websites. Submitting to these free and paid directories can help you get valuable links to your website and also help boost the link popularity.
Directory Submit Directory of Directories
Directory Submit is a Directory of Directories designed to help webmasters find directories quickly and easily. The directory has several main categories including the following:
Each category is further divided into sub-categories to help you find exactly what you are looking for.
Directory Owners can submit web directories for a listing at DirectorySubmit.org
Currently, the directory provides 3 different listing options:
You can check some of the recently submitted directories and also the most popular listings at DirectorySubmit.org by following the links.
Hurry and get your directory listed in this Directory of Directories and get the exposure and traffic your directory deserves!
I usually look for good SEO/SEM and Internet and Web Related Blogs where I can leave useful comments. Relevant and Quality Blog Comments can bring you a regular amount of traffic and can also help you in building links for your website. The more comments you leave on other related blogs, the more chance you have that the blog owner will visit your site and may leave a comment or two in return, if he finds something useful on your blog also.
That’s why I started a Free Blog Comments Thread at Digital Point Forums, inviting webmasters and blog owners to post their SEO, SEM, Internet, Web and Online Marketing Related blogs where I can post comments.
This is a free service I am offering to these blog owners, and in return I will get a few links, some traffic and comments in return. This will not only help them in building content for their site, but will also help me spread the word around and leave links to my blog at several SEO related Blogs.
So far, the whole thing is going great and I’ve got a few offers also, like if I leave 8+ quality comments on a blog, they will give me a free listing on one of their PR 3 Blogs Directory! Another one has offered to add ‘Top Commentator’ Plugin to the blog so I get a link to my Blog in return. A few others have left useful comments on my blog which is great!
I recently reached my 2,000 post count at Digital Point Webmaster Forums so I decided to rent out my avatar space. You can see my Digital Point Profile Page by following the link. This is the first time I’ve ever rented my avatar, and am happy about it. I’ve rented the avatar to Tim Schroeder for his Make Money Online website eMonetized.com. Yes! He is the same Tim Schroeder, owner of the popular webmaster Forum Webmaster-Talk.com
His blog is about everything related to making money online and online marketing stuff related to links, blogging, Google, WordPress, affiliates, and SEO. The blog also gives you an insight of his online ventures and helps and educates the readers about online money making techniques. Visit eMonetized.com today and learn form all what the blog has for money making online.
I was doing a search for the KW ‘SEO’ today to see where my SEO Blog ranks on Google for the keyword 😉 However, when I reached the 4th or 5th page of the SERPS (my settings were set to show 100 results per page), I got the following error at the end of Google’s Search Results:
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
Here’s a screenshot of what I’m talking about:
Some of you might already be aware of this, but this was really surprising for me as I hadn’t come across such a thing before.
You can read Google’s policies regarding the Digital Milennium Copyright Act by following the link.
Before you start a links campaign for your website, or directory submissions, you need to decide the Keywords you will be targeting and the Anchor Texts which you will use for your links campaign. These anchor texts will use your important keywords in them which will help you in Search Engine Rankings for these Keywords.
Here are a few tips which will help you make your anchor texts.
1. Only use the most important Keywords in your Anchor Text
It is a good idea to do some Keyword Research using a Keyword Tool like Wordtracker to decide the most important Keywords related to the theme of your website. You should be using the popular search terms in your Anchor Texts which show up in the Search when you use the Keyword Tool.
You can find a very good Keyword Suggestion Tool at Digital Point.
2. Do not make the Anchor Texts too long
Long, rambling, keyword stuffed Anchor Texts make no sense and might actually harm you in Search Rankings. Search Engines might penalize your site for using a long keyword stuffed or spammy Anchor Text. Remember, your Anchor Texts should be short and to-the-point and should make sense.
3. Make your Anchor Text Useful
Don’t simply paste Keywords in the Anchor Text, separated by commas, like Keyword 1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3. This looks completely absurd and users won’t be interested to click on it. Your Anchor Text should be a coherent sentence or a short phrase which makes sense. Make your Anchor Texts natural.
4. Use Anchor Text variations
If you are targeting 5 or 6 important keywords, it is always a good idea to make 5 or 6 different Anchor Texts, each focusing on the targeted Keyword. You should use these variations when submitting your site to link directories.
5. Make different Anchor Texts for different Landing Pages
If you have several important landing pages in your site, which you want to promote using link building, make different Anchor Texts for each of these landing pages. Use a Keyword Tool and research for the Keywords for each of these landing pages. Then create 3 or 4 variations of Anchor Texts for each of these landing pages. You can then use these Anchor Texts to submit your site to Directories and Link Forms.
6. Relevance is most important
This might seem obvious, but relevance is the most important thing in Anchor Texts. If you are making Anchor Texts for a page for Blue Widgets, make sure you use Blue Widgets in the Anchor Text, instead of using keywords like Green Widgets, Cheap Widgets etc.
Remember, Search Engines also give importance to Relevance. If your anchor text has Blue Widgets in it, and your page also used the Keyword Blue Widgets in the Title, Content and Body of that page, the anchor text will work perfectly with that page.
These tips are useful for all sort of anchor texts, whether internal or from other websites. When you link to an internal page of your site, always use some meaningful anchor text like ‘Find more details for Blue Widgets‘, where Blue Widgets should be the link, instead of ‘Find more details for Blue Widgets here‘.
You can also find more tips for Anchor Texts by following these links:
Many webmasters and website owners today have changed their focus from reciprocal links to non-reciprocal / one-way links due to the importance Search Engines give to one-way non-reciprocal links. There are a number of strategies that can be adopted to increase the number of one way, incoming links to a website. One of these, which you’ll come across, while reading many link building and development guides, is Blog Comments.
Leaving Useful Comments on blogs related to your niche is no doubt a very good idea to get links and users to your website. It is the easiest and most targeted method through which people will find you and will link to you if you provide useful comments and are a regular visitor to those blogs.
However, there is a very fine line in using Blog Commenting the ‘Ethical Way‘ and the ‘Unethical Way‘. If most of the incoming links to a website are from Blogs, and specifically from Blog Comments, Search Engines might end up penalizing your website.
Search Engines now consider websites that have a high percentage of links from Blogs as ‘Bad Neighborhood‘ sites. Domains that have a high occurrence of links that appear to be from blogs may be penalized by Search Engines. It may be normal for blogs and forums to have lots of incoming links from blogs, but for many commercial websites, a large percentage of links from blogs could indicate an attempt to increase search engine rankings through blog comment spamming.
So if you have a new website, and you plan to promote it and bring traffic and users to it through blog comments, make sure you have some other methods of attracting links to your website also, to even it all out. Incoming links from Blogs only can be harmful for your website.
I finally took out the time to write my own guide for some great link building strategies. The guide is now online at Killer Link Building Strategies. It still needs a lot of additions and I need to cover more topics in more detail. I’ll keep updating it regularly and make it the ultimate guide for link building for all the newbies out there learning link building and how to collect links for their websites.
I’m also thinking of making an even better and detailed version and maybe put it on my site in the form of an e-book.
Del.icio.us has recently launched the new and updated Add-On for Firefox which makes bookmarking websites easier and fast. Del.icio.us had been loosing a lot of its users owing to its slow speed to Bluedot.us, a competitor site, but recently, Del.icio.us has made significant speed improvements by their new bookmarking Add-On for Firefox which will prove to be beneficial for them.
The latest Del.icio.us Add-On for Firefox can be downloaded here.
One of the blogs I manage had started getting lots and lots of Comment Spam. I tried a number of spam protection techniques, including Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin, but it didnt work out. Even disabling ‘Add Comment’ and making it available to only registered users didn’t work out. The number of Comment spams to the blog increased to 5 comment spams every 5 minutes, which was really annoying.
I finally found the solution to all this when I came to know that most of these Blog Comment Spams are generated by Trackbacks and Pingbacks.
You can use the Simple Trackback Validation Plugin to get rid of Comment Span, or simply un-check the check box for Trackback notifications from your WordPress Admin panel under the ‘Options >> Discussions‘ tab. This will disable pingbacks and trackbacks on any new posts that you add to your blog.
Once you’ve updated the options, you’ll need to modify the pingback status for your old posts by running a simple SQL query in the SQL Tab of phpMyAdmin after selecting your Blog Database:
UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=’closed’ WHERE ping_status=’open’
Alternately, you can run the simpler version of this SQL query
UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=’closed’ 😉
This will set the ping status for all your previous posts to 0 and will help you get rid of thousands of unwanted spammy Blog Comments.