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| Increase Your Traffic For Free |
| Posted: 09-03-2006 | Views: 157 |
| Author: James Lin |
Increase Your Traffic For Free
by Joseph Pratt
Okay, you have your website and now you want more visitors.
Don’t think you’re the only one, bub, but you can learn
from the experience of others. Subscribing to web directories
is one solution that the ICMediaDirect.com Consulting
Division both recommends and executes for clients in order
to increase traffic. Like any SEO task, its effort – and
smart effort always works best.
1) Traffic. Close to 20% of all traffic comes from web
directories. That’s either quite a heap to tap into or
a massive chunk to disregard. Simply put, the choice is
up to you – there are fishes in the water, do you want
to cast out your lines or not? If so, let’s hit the web
directories.
2) Get Linked. Search engines include link popularity
in their rankings. Using web directories enmeshes your
website into linkage, which increases visitors. This creates
better rankings – hence more traffic to your web property.
3) Hyperlinked Keywords. Link popularity develops by incorporating
keywords into the hyperlinks. Submissions to web directories
should include relevant keywords. It makes your site easier
to find and boosts the visibility of said links across
the spectrum of search engines. More free traffic.
4) Keyword Optimization. It’s doubly important to mention
keyword research as it can help you in more ways than
one, so choose carefully. The links created within web
directories essentially act as recommendations to search
engine algorithms and the search engine will attempt to
match your hyperlink keywords with search phrases entered
by users. So, by harmonizing your keywords to themes related
to your website, you will boost visibility.
5) Diversify. Submit to different web directories and
find them through search engines. The reason being is
that they already have decent standing by virtue of you
finding them from the search sites. Play around, get creative,
and use key words in combination with topics relevant
to your site to find the best web directories. Increase
your visibility by hitching on to existing and working
directories - if you found it, others will too.
6) Monkey see, monkey do. Mimic your hyperlinks to appear
like those seen in Google Adwords. Whatever wordings helps
make those ads rank well for Adwords will only help your
viability through search, and in turn, web directory ranking.
Success begets success.
7) Mind your web directory manners. Treating it like a
doormat (by ignoring simple rules to follow, like don’t
use too much promotional nomenclature, no foul language,
etc) is no good. Play by the rules, or don’t play at all.
8) Web Directory 2.0. Oh yeah! Webmasters are privy to
vastly improved web directories with uniform scripts and
the functionality of web directories is beginning to improve
drastically. A directory can do more with your listing,
like displaying logos and basic contact info. The web
directory itself has become more pleasing to the eye –
and, I should add, for its own good!
Web directories are there for the taking. There is little
harm in trying them and with some effort, big rewards
may be reaped through increased traffic. What’s more is
that web directories (just like this advice column and
ICMediaDirect.com’s consulting services for clients) are
free. You can’t beat that.
Joseph Pratt
Media Analyst
ICMediaDirect.com
http://www.icmediadirect.com
e: joseph@icmediadirect.com
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