This could have been the advice of the day but looking at the time of my last post it is probably best to call the bimonthly advice.
The advice is rather simple and applies to all kind of sites, simply watch your analytics.
Directories, most of the time get traffic from long tail keywords so digging in [...]
Now that I finished revamping the look of my blog it’s about time I posted something new. BTW about half of the code of the theme was written by me so it’s a bit of a mess and there may still be a few bugs but it still validates :).
Now, back to our topic. [...]
This is really sad in a way, Saturday night and I am blogging about directories, oh well!
I have posted previously that in most cases we are missing the obvious. I believe that this is the case when most directory owners are promoting their directories in order to get paid submissions. Let’s look a bit at [...]
I was thinking about what kind of links a directory owner should try to get. My view of the topic is probably not the most popular among directory owners or webmasters, but here it goes.Most directory owners believe that they should get as many webmaster related links as possible because they are more relevant. In [...]
It is frustrating to see all the crap MFA sites that get submitted to directories, however it is even worst when you receive sites that are listable but the category, title, description and keywords are all wrong because the submitter didn’t bother to read the Guidelines. I can understand the motives of people trying to [...]
Link building for directories is a hard job (I am talking of course for natural links). Very few people, if any will naturally link to a directory, so directory owners need to try hard to find backlinks. Let’s take a look at some of the available ways to get free natural backlinks.
Directory lists: That’s a [...]
Ok here is a question that I don’t have a clear answer and I would also appreciate some feedback. According to my observations there are three common things that succesful paid for inclusion directories have.
In order of importance:
1. Brand Name
2. Medium to high PR
3. Large number of listings (obviously that takes time and is related [...]
