My Buy Essay

Posts Tagged ‘web directory’

How To Get Massive Traffic To Your Web Site? Twenty Simple Ways.

Do you think that embarking on an Internet marketing campaign is difficult, tricky, or complicated? Successful Internet marketing campaign doesn’t have to be difficult, tricky, or complicated. Here are twenty simple ways that you can easily implement to get tons of traffic to your site right now.

1) Social bookmark


You must drain to the last drop what you give any social bookmark site. You can bookmark each page of your site and each blog entry you post. While this might seem wearisome, it’s worth it. You’ll see a strong increase in traffic if you social bookmark each page on your site and each of your blog entries.

2) Write articles


Believe it or not this is an incredible tool for driving traffic to your site. Relevant, well-written articles can net quite a bit of activity to your web place. Off course – don’t forget to add your URL in your byline. Articles should be 500 to 2,000 words in length. You can send articles to sites like: Ezine Articles, GoArticles, Submit Your Articles and Article City.

3) And speaking of your email signature line

If you don’t, create one. Believe it or not, people do follow these links. You’ll be amaze how many users read email signature lines. I have one and change it several times a year, depending on what we are doing or promoting.

4) List your web site in the best web directories

You’ll have to pay for this but since most people don’t do this (since everyone is looking for a freebie) you could really enhance your traffic by getting a listing: botw dot org and many, dir dot yahoo dot com, business dot org other good directories.

5) Get yourself listed at: DMOZ dot org


It’s not easy – to get link at DMOZ, but worth the effort.

6) Create a “recommended by” list on your Delicious page

You can do this by logging on and creating an account and there and then tagging articles, blogs and other content you think is important to your readership. Then offer this page as a resource site. You can add a link to this page in your email signature line or on your web site.

7) Offer a freebie on Craig’s List


You’ll be surprised at how much traffic you get from a single Craig’s List ad. The key here is to send users to a page on your site and make sure they have to sign up for something (like your email newsletter) before they can grab their freebie. That way you’re not just getting traffic, you’re also building your list.

Review:


If you can review hot new products or books within your market, head on over to Amazon and start positioning yourself as an expert. In order to do this effectively you’ll want to create an Amazon profile and make sure and sign each review with a reference to your URL (your web site). You can also go to Epinions and Revoo to review products as well.

9) Lend a helping hand:


You can be an answer person at Yahoo Answers &ndash you don’t have to spend hours on there, but maybe a 15 to 30 minutes a week and include a link back to your site following your answers.

10) Set up a social networking site using Facebook, LinkedIn, or Squidoo

It’s free and easy, just don’t forget the all-important link back to your site!

Niche web directories are a great way for small online business owners to list their information in a place where others in the industry and potential customers can easily find them. Directories group sites that are all related to one theme or subject. What niche web directories would best suit your business?

Niche Web Directories Versus Search Engines

Niche web directories are different from search engines in that they are highly specialized. Go to a craft directory, for example, and type in the words ‘space travel’ and you’ll probably come up with craft supplies to make planetary systems. Very specific! You won’t find NASA’s website or scientific analyzes of recent space shuttle flights in an arts and crafts niche web directory. But go to space or science niche web directory and you may find a link to the craft site that specializes in making model space shuttles.

Niche web directories do relate to search engines in that search engines rank them highly. Due to the intensity of filtering that most directories apply to the sites that they include, search engines highly respect them. This level of respect is good for the page rankings of all the sites listed in the directories. Getting your site listed in appropriate niche web directories provides you with a one way link from a reputable, highly ranked site and that’s one of the most important aspects of the page ranking formula for search engines.

Traffic

When you get web traffic through listings on search engines, you may or may not be what the web surfer was looking for. Yes, there is the chance that the person didn’t know that you existed and, now that she does, will bookmark your site to return for purchases at a later date. However, this is a big ‘if.’ Traffic that you receive as a result of niche web directories will generally be more apt to buy because a higher percentage of them were looking specifically for you and what you have to offer.

Partners and Competitors

Because niche web directories are based around themes or industries, the editors are usually experts in the chosen theme. This helps them to choose neighbor listings that are relevant and high quality, minimizing spam entries and putting you in good company. Just as a customer may search these listings in hopes of finding everything he or she needs to, you, too, can search them to check out your competition. What else is out there? Who is competing for your target audience? Perhaps you will see a niche within a niche that needs attention and fill it.

Also, because links raise your page ranking with search engines, niche web directories are a great way to find companies who sell complimentary products and services with whom you can trade links. If you sell antique car parts, you may want to have a link page that includes links to antique car show sites or fan sites for antique cars. Building up your links to other relevant sites in your industry will help increase your page ranking in search engines and will increase your traffic as well.

Niche Web Directory Options

Some niche web directories are so focused on attracting the most qualified sites that they will pay to list if you apply and qualify. This is always a great sign of a specific, reputable niche web directory. Some will also offer you highlighting options like placing your website listing in bold, brackets, or highlighting it for optimum visibility.

It’s important that webmasters do not ignore the opportunities that niche web directories provide. Exposure, especially in this form, can do nothing but boost your traffic, boost your sales, and boost your profits.

Webmasters often ask if paid directory submissions worth the money? Of course the answer depends on the directory and the money.

There are two things you can get from a directory: link popularity and traffic. I don’t know of any directories that really deliver much traffic. Listings in Dmoz, and the Yahoo directory don’t even get me much traffic. Still if you’re buying a permanent listing, getting a few visits a year for 20 years isn’t so bad. There’s little doubt that this is targeted traffic.

Then you want backlinks or link popularity. This depends on the directory and the category where your listing will be placed. The structure of the directory categories will determine if your site will get a top-level listing (one or two clicks away from the homepage) or a deep listing (3 or more clicks removed from the homepage). Then it depends on the number of links on that page. Many paid inclusion directories are selling everypage links, but these are a serious link popularity drain.

So the two main problems with web directories are where your listing will be placed and how much link popularity gets passed on to your site. My solution is to submit to 300 free non-reciprocal directories (with new sites I do 100 submissions a week for three weeks) and choose several paid directories that will place my new site in a top-level category or on a page that has only a few links.

A recent case study revealed that these 300 free directory submissions, combined with one listing in a top-level category of jtrotta.com web directory and one homepage link from a related site produced, in just over a month, over 130 backlinks (according to Yahoo) and led to my site being fully indexed by Google. Search engine traffic has been good, due to high rankings in Google and MSN search results. All this would cost the average webmaster 30.00 for the 300 directory submissions, 69.90 for the top-level jtrotta.com listing, and 45.00/month for the homepage link. The best part is that it required so little of my time.