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Text Link Reviews » directories http://www.textlinkads.org Keeping track of link marketing online. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Submit Your Site to 10,000 Web Directories for $100 http://www.textlinkads.org/submit-your-site-to-10000-web-directories-for-100/ http://www.textlinkads.org/submit-your-site-to-10000-web-directories-for-100/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:08:56 +0000 admin http://www.textlinkads.org/?p=19 If 1 is good 2 is better…if 2 is better than 300 is great…or so the strategy goes. In theory that is nice, but that is not how the web works. As the opportunity cost of a marketing strategy decreases then the networks influenced by the technique get better at demoting it.

In May of last year John Scott tested submitting his site to 5 strong paid directories while submitting another site to 700 cheap directories. He shares his results here. And what are they? 5 quality paid directories outperformed 700 cheap directories, and the site with 700 links appeared penalized while the other site got 100+ search engine referrals each day.

]]> http://www.textlinkads.org/submit-your-site-to-10000-web-directories-for-100/feed/ 0 5 Directories Search Engines Love http://www.textlinkads.org/5-directories-search-engines-love/ http://www.textlinkads.org/5-directories-search-engines-love/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 04:10:51 +0000 admin http://www.textlinkads.org/?p=8 For websites to rank in the algorithmic search results they typically require inbound links…especially to rank for competitive keywords where lots of competing businesses want to rank. In some cases ranking can take hundreds or thousands of inbound links. No matter how high the odds it is good to start with some foundational link building. Here are 5 general directories search engines love

  • BOTW.org – general directory offering a yearly $100 recurring option and one time fee listings for $250.
  • Business.com – Business focused directory that charges $299 per year to list your websites.
  • DMOZ.org – called the Open Directory Project, this directory is anything but open! Submissions are free, but it can take years to get listed in DMOZ because unpaid volunteers edit the categories and are quite picky with what sites they are willing to list.
  • LII.org – Librarian’s Internet Index is similar to DMOZ, but more actively maintained. They try to focus on listing leading non-commercial and informational websites.
  • The Yahoo! Directory – one of the older web directories, started in 1994. The Yahoo! Directory charges an annually recurring $299 fee for listing websites.

Will these directories get you to the top of the search results? Probably not, but every journey must start with a first step!

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