How Many Directory Links Are Enough?
How Many Directory Links Are Enough? By: Rich Brunelle
If you run a business and you could place your phone listing or
Yellow Pages ad in every phone book in the country, would you?
Maybe not, if you sold a locally distributed product or service
and didn't have any reason to want the business to grow beyond
the reach of the local phone book. But, what if . . . you sold a
product or service that you wanted people traveling through your
area to know about? What if you sold a product or service that
was easily distributable world-wide? Of course you would want to
spread your listing far and wide.
There are lots of directories out in cyberspace. There are those
that are industry specific, those that are locale specific, some
for free, and some require you pay a fee. But, they all have one
thing in common. People use them. And, as long as people use
them . . . so should you. If you want me to find your web site,
you want to place your ad or URL data everywhere I might look
for you. Why? Because you want me to buy, sell, subscribe,
contribute, or other from you instead of your competitor. While
Google and MSN would like you to believe that the whole world
searches them and them alone, they are wrong. Myself, I've grown
annoyed at searching major search engines and finding pages of
nothing relative to my search, or pages that are nothing but
search script generated garbage. So, I personally search a
variety of directories.
But, say you are joined at the hip with Google, MSN, or any of
the other major search engines. And being so inclined, do only
search their services. Guess where some of their collected data
comes from? That is correct, other directories! And, directories
are an excellent "relative link" for search engines to find
pointing towards your site. Now, I am not suggesting not using
the major search engines. By all means do!
There are SEO Experts that swear by page optimization your web
site gets higher ranking with search engines. Others will tell
you that writing articles gets you the best ranking. And, others
will claim text ads, classified ads, e-books, link engines, link
exchanges, and so-on and so-forth, get you a better ranking.
Myself, I think a little differently. I think you need to do all
of it, plus stand on the street corner periodically and announce
to the world who you are and what you do. That's what is
required to promote your web site to the fullest. And, unless
you already get a million or so hits at your site daily, you
need to promote your web site as much as possible.
Here are some new directory sites for you to add your URL data
to:
Datajam's Cool Sites Index http://www.djam-promo.com/ is a
FREE/Any Topic Directory that will start writing articles about
sites listed in its database at random. This gives Users a
potential second method of promotion.
djamSEARCH http://djamsearch.djam-promo.com/ is a FREE/Any Topic
Directory that promotes User sites by bringing multiple listings
of sites when a search category is selected.
PromoSEARCH http://promo.glwb.info/ is a FREE/Any Topic
Directory that is very search engine friendly. It is still under
development but is accepting site data.
MGLResources http://mglconstruction.com/Resources2.asp is a new
FREE/Construction Trades Directory. It is a good place to add
your site data if you have anything to do with construction,
building materials, or are a Contractor.
WebDirectory http://djam-promo.com/WebDirectory/ is a new
FREE/California by City Directory that invites California based
sites to add their data to its database.
Feel free to visit any of the sites noted above and add your web
site information. While you are at it, feel free to register at
djam-promo.com, it is free and we would like to see some new
users join us.