How Long Before Your Directory Submission Efforts Bear Fruit
How Long Before Your Directory Submission Efforts Bear FruitOver 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
Goldenter – Premium Website DirectoryIn 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 SEO-Friendly Web DirectoryMedRanks.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
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
Directory DawnWe’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
Family Friendly Sites DirectoryNext 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
SBSN Premium Website DirectoryContinuing 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.
Other Services
Other Services
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
New: Deep Link Submission ServiceIn 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.
7 Clear-Cut Reasons Why You Cannot Ignore Deep Links Anymore!
7 Clear-Cut Reasons Why You Cannot Ignore Deep Links Anymore!Why are deep links important, you ask? Before I can begin to answer that question, I need to define what a deep link is. Any inbound link that points to an inner page of a site is a deep link; it can be either internal or external. For a better part of the SEO history, deep links were overlooked in favor of the more prominent, and heretofore more “popular”, homepage links. But now that the entire SEO-realm is awake to the considerable clout they have on the SERPs, deep links are being hailed as the best SEO method to ever be.
The advantages of deep linking are so patently obvious, I am surprised that it took us this long to be hip to them. By now enough SEO types have written about the mistake we make of overlooking deep links (while cooking up our SEO strategies) that what I am about to say may seem a bit redundant. However, this is my stance on this matter, when it comes to writing about the importance of deep links, redundancy is an invalid concept.
So, why are deep links important, you ask again? Let me count the ways:
1. Traffic, More Traffic!
Deep linking is your key to generating sustainable search traffic. Studies have shown that less than 20% of the search visits land on the home page, the rest land on individual pages. So engaging in deep linking can help you generate 80% more traffic than you already are.
2. Deep Links Can Build Relevance For Your Site
No matter how great the content on your site is, an ill-optimized internal linking structure and a poorly realized linking strategy will negate all the SEO-goodness your site can draw from it. It all boils down to one question: once on your site, can the user easily find what he is looking for? Does your site provide a ready answer to his search query? If you answer is in the negative, then you’ve failed to establish relevance for your site, in spite of having highly relevant content available so freely on your site. Now, if you had engaged in a spot of deep linking, either internal or external, you’d have got full points for relevance. Calibrating your links with your content is of utmost importance in building relevance, and the thing to do is to optimize your inner pages links with the most relevant anchor text. If a search query for ‘Belgian Waffles’ throws up your site in the results, then the link should be one that points to the page with information on ‘Belgian Waffles’, and not a generic link that points to the home page that contains information about, say, ‘Bed and Breakfasts’.