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04-26-06

Search Engine Optimization 102 and steps to Offsite-Optimization

Its all about building links.Â Here are a few (of many) methods to build links.Â I was in charge of another conference call tonight, and I wanted to post/share the notes on the blog.Â This is a follow up to a previous conference call blog I did about SEO 101

Directory Submission:Â

A directory is like an online phone book.Â If you want to find the pizza joint in a new area you pick up the phone book.Â Similarly, directories arrange websites according to categories.Â

Why submit to directories?Â Search Engines love directories (most of them anyway-not all) and the reason is because directories have humans that edit them.Â What the human does is look at your website once itâ€™s submitted and accepts you for approval or denies you.Â For this reason alone if you are accepted into a directory you gain more credibility in the eyes of the search engine and this will help your rankings.

Different kind of directories:

Free Directories
Paid Directories
Multiple Link Directories
Niche Directories
Local Directories

Free Directories:Â They are what they are.Â A great list of free SEO friendly directories can be found here http://www.addurl.nu

Paid Directories:Â Most will guarantee you approval with a small fee.Â I generally donâ€™t have a problem paying for directory submission especially when so many are only 1-5 dollars for a lifetime submission.Â I blogged previously about a great list of paid directories so feel free to check it out!

Multiple Link Directories:Â By far the best directories to list with as you get multiple keywords to multiple sub pages of your website.Â This helps with deep linking and gaining more popularity and rankings with the search engines.Â Here is my favorite multiple link directories:

Article Submissions:

Write about 3-4 articles a month relating to topics or products from your site.Â If you donâ€™t have any topics, then write reviews about your products.Â Generally articles need to be about 300-400 words.Â Use the keywords you are trying to be found for in the headline and content.Â If allowed anchor up keywords inside the content, and take them to sub pages providing more information on that keyword or phrase.

Rules:Â Only submit one article per site, and try to submit 3-4 a week.Â Focus on your major keywords phrase for each article submitted.

Great Places to submit articles:

Press Release:Â

Similar to articles, but more professional and written in 3rd person.Â Writing press helps build up links as well as credibility to your site.Â Any press release you submit make sure to include on your site, as it gives more credibility.Â Also if you have your Press featured inside a major media organization you can spotlight that fact on your website somewhere.Â The main reason we submit Press Releases though is because of the links they will build up for our site.Â When you submit a Press it is normally submitted to over 100,000 media sources.Â There is a good chance someone will pick your story up.

Sites to submit press to (as well as find out all the rules and guidelines to write one):

Blogging:Â

A great way to gain credibility in the search engines and create more back links is through blogs.Â Create your own, and find others to comment on and leave good content.Â You will gain credibility and you will get more traffic to your website from blogging communities.Â Â The search engines will crawl your site more regularly as well if they see you have content that is always changing on a daily basis.

Places to get blogging software OR free blogs:

Communities:

Social book marking and tagging is a fairly new concept to a lot of people.Â Building up credibility through article submission communities can get your more links and traffic then you ever imagined.Â To read a great seo article on tagging and social book marking click any of the links.

Great community sites:

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Articles Directory , January 11th, 2007 at 9:06 am

Would you like consider to add on your list Articles.SPiiNZ.com.
Another great place to submit your articles.

Directory of free quality articles for your blog, website and newsletter. Absolutely free content for publishing on websites and ezines. Submit your articles today for massive exposure.

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Razvan Marian Jr , July 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am

Nice list you posted in here. I would like to announce my seo friendly articles directory as well. The articles are reviewed in max 48 hours even faster and you can post up to 3 links in the about author.

The URL is http://www.FreeForAllArticles.com

Good luck with the submissions, Razvan

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