How To Revive a Dead Site
Dead sites, dying sites or sites languishing in various stages of inactivity can give even the most seasoned webmasters nightmares. Quite honestly, inactivity (or any other signs of morbidity) is a term I hope to never utter in conjunction with my site. However, I realize if I am not careful, I can get complacent and let it creep upon me, or my site to be precise. Thankfully, there are ways to prevent such unwelcome and ill-fated eventualities, and help a site live a full and healthy (read, active) life.
Because I know that there are many out there, living in constant fear of their site dying on them, in dire need of some site-revival intervention, I shall list 9 ways that will surely help breathe new life into a site.
1. Don’t Take A Break From Building Content: Imagine that you are a restaurateur… will you ever consider serving your customers stale leftovers? Of course, you won’t! Setting up a website is just another way of serving your customers, by providing them the freshest and most relevant information. If you fail to do that, you won’t ever have any repeat customers (or visitors). This customer satisfaction angle aside, not updating your site can negatively affect your search engine rankings too. So, if you wish to see your site thriving with a steady stream of traffic, and stay high up on the SERPs, it is important that you regularly create content and update your site.
2. Build Links: Most people make the mistake of disregarding the substantive importance of links and building links. 
In addition to the obvious SEO benefits link building offers, it will also help you be connected to other relevant sites. The whole web works on the principle of interconnectedness, so a site that chooses to isolate itself and refrains from connecting with other sites cannot be anything but a failure.
3. Give Your Site A Makeover: If the current design of your site seems old and tired, don’t hesitate, initiate that redesign that you’ve been thinking about. Take inspiration from some of the most popular sites on the web; surfing the web, more than anything, is a very visual experience, keep that in mind while you decide on the design.
4. Update On Popular Demand: 
If updating the whole site on a regular basis is beyond you, try, at least, to update the pages that are visited the most. This way, even if you don’t succeed in attracting new visitors, you won’t lose out on the old. Writing on current events, or the latest developments in your field, while choosing a nonconformist, if slightly controversial, slant is a great way to hook people.
How Long Before Your Directory Submission Efforts Bear Fruit
Over the years, we’ve received mails from frantic customers worried that all the energy they expended on directory submissions had and would come to naught. All because, they couldn’t find any change in the number of backlinks to their sites or any improvement in the sites’ rankings after submissions. Today, with this post, I’d like to allay the fears of anyone who has been similarly disposed or will likely be in the future. 
Directory Submission is not some quick-fix trick that you can slap on like a Band-Aid and hope to make your SEO better. What Directory Submission offers instead is a long-lasting, albeit slower, SEO-goodness that is virtually impossible to duplicate. And what’s a little wait when the benefits are so bounteous, really? It wasn’t the quick-legged hare, but the slow and steady tortoise that won the race! What I mean to say is slow isn’t always bad, especially when it comes to SEO.
The ‘slow’ benefits from Directory Submission include permanent backlinks to your site, with the anchor text of your choice (I am sure your are well aware of the fact that link building is the most important component of SEO, but building links with the right anchor text is even more important), and an improvement in rankings for the targeted terms. But, yes, it doesn’t happen overnight. Read more
Goldenter – Premium Website Directory
In this edition of the ongoing Paid Directory showcase, we bring you – Goldenter.com, a premium web directory.
Goldenter is a human edited, SEO-friendly paid directory that is a PR6 site as well. Functional since 1998, Goldenter’s age amply contributes to the authority it enjoys. Older sites have more authority and are favored by searchbots, which means links submitted to such directories will be favored as well, and hence indexed faster. Having your site submitted to this quality directory can help optimize your site and at the same time give it adequate exposure.
The image below will give you an insight into how frequently the directory is indexed by search engines like Google:
Below, you will observe that not just the homepage, but even the inner pages of the directory are regularly indexed:
MedRanks SEO-Friendly Web Directory
MedRanks.com – SEO-friendly Web Directory is the next paid directory to feature in our ongoing Paid Directory showcase.
MedRanks is a PR6 Paid Directory that has been online since 2004. A human edited business directory, it is a veritable repository of business resources. As mentioned on their site, their primary aim is to preserve a well-organized category structure for the listings and improve user experience. The Medranks personnel also ensure that the directory remains SEO-friendly at all points in time so that it is regularly indexed by search engines. As is known, submitting links to directories that are regularly indexed can get them indexed as well, and faster too.
The image below will give you an insight into how frequently the directory is indexed by search engines like Google:
The Importance Of Link Diversity In SEO
Any SEO worth his salt knows that link building is the key to ranking higher in the Search Engines. So, rather than reiterating the importance of link building in SEO, I’ll move one step further and tell you about maintaining link diversity while building links. Because it is crucial, and also because many of us often don’t understand its importance. So, why is link diversity important?
The answer has to do with the SEO holy grail that is natural link profile. When a searchbot finds that a big chunk of all the links pointing to your site come from one site in particular, it doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist before it concludes that your are hand in glove with the said site, and that the link profile you’ve established is far from being natural, even if that were not the case. Needless to say, it can go downhill from there in no time, and you can consequently bid adieu to your dream of ranking high, or ranking at all for that matter! Because hell hath no fury like a search engine duped, and you may find your site being dropped from the index before you can say SEO! Now, even if things weren’t to take such a bad turn, a diverse link profile will get better of a homogeneous on any given day.
Research shows that search engines love sites high on the link diversity factor, which they equate with authority and trust, and index them frequently. If that doesn’t motivate you to increase your link diversity, then you are probably one of those people who won’t even blink if Matt Cutts himself offers to index your site!
Also, by diversity I don’t only mean getting links from different sites, it includes so many other things. So, do yourself a favor and keep these six points in mind while trying to build diverse links to your site: Read more
Directory Dawn
We’ve showcased three paid directories in this space in the past weeks, and as the New Year dawns, we bring a new paid directory to you, appropriately named Directory Dawn (dirdawn.com).
Directory Dawn is a PR6 Paid Directory that prides itself on its reputation of being a high quality directory. In order to maintain this reputation, the people at Directory Dawn strive to constantly uphold their quality standards. As a result, Directory Dawn continues to be an active directory that’s regularly indexed by search engines. Submitting your links to this directory can help your links get indexed faster and significantly aid your SEO efforts.
The image below will give you an insight into how frequently the directory is indexed by search engines like Google:
Below, you will observe that not just the homepage, but even the inner pages of the directory are regularly indexed:
Directory Dawn Features:
- The directory is free of ads and has a well-planned category structure that’s easy on the eye as well.
- All submissions are manually reviewed and the directory reserves the right to edit or delete listings that at any point in time are found to be in violation of their rules.
- Directory Dawn doesn’t approve adult-themed sites or ones that contain adult related content. Gambling and dating sites, as well as sites that endorse alcohol, tobacco, racism, or warez aren’t allowed either.
- The directory will refund the fee in case a submission is rejected; this doesn’t hold true in the case of an approved listing that is deleted at a later stage.
- The refund policy doesn’t apply to sites that belong to the categories banned by the directory.
A regular permanent listing on Directory Dawn will set you back by a one-time fee of $46.95 per submission; but with Directory Maximizer’s Paid Directory Submission Service, you can get the same at a discounted fee of just $40.00 and save $6.95.
Don’t let this opportunity go abegging; have your site submitted to this high PR, SEO-friendly paid directory and do your SEO efforts a good turn.
Family Friendly Sites Directory
Next up on the Paid Directory Showcase is Family Friendly Sites Directory
A PR6 Paid Directory that caters to a global English speaking audience, Family Friendly Sites (FFS) Directory has been functional for over twelve years. It is unique in the way it places special emphasis on the suitability of its contents with regard to kids and families. The newly revamped FFS directory isn’t merely family friendly, it’s SEO friendly as well. The dedicated FFS staff ensures that each site draws the maximum SEO benefit from the listing.
The image below will give you an insight into how frequently the directory is indexed by search engines like Google.
Below, you will observe that not just the homepage, but even the inner pages of the directory are regularly indexed.
SBSN Premium Website Directory
Continuing our Paid Directory Showcase, as promised in our earlier posts, we present to you, SBSN Online Premium Website Directory.
SBSN is a PR6 Paid Directory that is over 12 years old. The high PageRank and the age of the site have contributed to a domain authority that is almost unrivaled. As you may already know, search engines favor older sites with authority and regularly index them. Submitting to a regularly indexed directory can help your links get indexed faster and boost your SEO efforts considerably.
The image below will give you an insight into how frequently the directory is indexed by search engines like Google.
Below, you will observe that not just the homepage, but even the inner pages of the directory are regularly indexed.
A few features that recommend SBSN:
- This easily navigable site is clutter free and boasts of an impeccably well-organized category structure.
- It’s an English language dictionary targeting a global audience, but non-English sites can be submitted as well, to the Regional category.
- The directory enforces strict guidelines to ensure the site is spam free. Sites with adult, warez, gambling or any kind of illegal content are banned.
- All submitted sites undergo manual reviews; even approved sites are regularly reviewed in order to keep the directory free of dead links.
- The directory allows submission of inner pages and thereby encourages deep linking.
The one-time fee for a regular review at SBSN is $49.99 per submission; with Directory Maximizer’s Paid Directory Submission Service, you get a discount of $5.99 and can have a submission made at a special fee of just $44.00.
Get a hold of this unbeatable deal to have your site submitted to a well-indexed, high PR SEO-friendly directory.
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Other Services
In addition to our flagship directory submission service, we offer an array of other services that can assist you in optimizing your sites for search engines.
Some of the other services we offer are:
Social Bookmarking has become one of the most important methods to get traffic to your site. In Social Bookmarking, we bookmark your site with all the major bookmarking sites like Digg, reddit, StumbleUpon, delicious etc. and this bookmark can be viewed by and shared with others as well. You can even submit inner pages or a particular article in a page for social bookmarking. We charge 19 cents per bookmark and all the bookmarks are guaranteed. We give you the final link location in the report itself. As more and more people view and share your bookmark, the traffic to your site will increase.
Social bookmarking will give your site instant exposure, links and a fair amount of traffic as well.
New: Deep Link Submission Service
In a move that will reinforce your belief that Directory Maximizer is indeed the best directory submission service you can find on the Internet, we are rolling out our Deep Link Submission service. Deep linking, as you probably know, is an oft-overlooked method of SEO whose benefits are manifold and long lasting. You, dear customers, can now build links to your inner pages and not limit your SEO efforts to your home page – and we are going to help you do that.
We realize that in the past, we weren’t well-equipped to assist you in your deep linking endeavors, but with this new service we promise you a well-rounded directory submission experience. Before you think that this new service probably comes at a premium, let us assure you, it doesn’t! The price remains the same: 14 cents per submission (16, if you opt for our email-handling service), no hidden costs, no recurring fee. Even the submission process is the same – log in to your account, go to your ‘Add Site’ section & ‘Add’ the inner page link you want to have submitted. Then place a submission order by ‘Submitting’ the same (For a detailed, step-by-step explanation of the ordering process, click here).
We are excited to bring you this deep link submission service, and hope we can successfully aid you in enhancing your link building experience.
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