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Importance of Article Marketing in SEO

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:45:49 +0000

When you want to search for any topic on the Internet, you use search engines to find the appropriate results by writing some relevant keywords. This is how the websites get ranking and they succeed in boosting their ranks on the web. Article marketing is a way to market your business through different articles. These are written specifically in a way which provides essential information related to the products available in the company and provides a link so that the user can visit the site to know more about the products and services. These help in increasing traffic to the site and also increase the link density and search engine placement.

The articles written by the particular company are for entirely promotional purposes and are deposited to the article directories so that they can get the maximum out links. Every article has one or two links that straight away goes to the website. These are found generally at the end of the article by adding the source of the article, adding a paragraph and also by adding a biography of the author of the article who has written the article. This is a means which gives creditability to the information provided and also works as a tool for publicity. It also attracts many users to visit the site which has been linked with the article to know more about the services offered by the site.

The writer who is about to write an article must assure that he knows the basics which are essential to keep in mind while writing an article. The first and foremost requirement is to develop and identify the relevant keyword which will help in finding the article from search engines. The writer must use title and Meta tags which will help in easily navigation to find the information required by the user. Then the writer must confirm to contact businesses which have online niche newsletters. They should have higher page ranks; this will help in getting higher ranks. It is also important to ensure that the writer must use reasonable number of keywords which means he should know the number which can be used in a particular article. If the article is stuffed with keywords, it will not help the article to get higher ranks but it will be kicked out from the search engine results.

Once the writer is aware about the writing techniques, he has to ensure that he writes on those topics which the user wants to know or may search for in the near future. There is a general phenomenon that the more the number of articles, the more the company will get promotion. This will result into getting more clicks by the user which will ultimately help in raising the search engine placement. The purpose of article marketing will be successful only when the company will start getting the desired traffic and will be able to grab more and more attention towards the site.

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Why Link Popularity is Important?

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:43:06 +0000

Today, more and more search engines are ranking web pages based on the number of links that point to a web site (link popularity). Google uses link popularity as one of its most important criterion in ranking sites. HotBot, AltaVista, MSN, Inktomi and others also rely on link popularity to determine a particular site’s rank.

All factors point to the fact that in the not-so-distant future every major search engine will use link popularity. Thus working on your popularity is essential if you envision a bright future for your online business.

For a good ranking on Google, Inktomi and AltaVista, you need reliable one way links to point to your site. The advantages of one way link building include:

Attaining targeted traffic on your website.
Attract more customers and increase sales.
Build new business contacts.
Receive a higher ranking on search engines.
Achieve higher link popularity.
No reciprocal links are required.

Another piece of news that places link popularity on a high pedestal is Google’s implementation of LSI Keywords. It has already prescribed penalties for link farms, and is taking steps against pointless paid links. Thus, for any SEO firm or webmaster, the most favorable route forward for one-way link building is directory submission. However you need to ensure that incoming links to your sites are ‘relevant,’and precious time and resources are not wasted in hiring incompetent link building services .

The best way to build links is to locate a firm that undertakes manual directory submission, and selects high-profile directories based on pedigree and reliability. Any major search engine that actually catalogues and indexes a directory, has its own criteria for selection. The key to link building is to ensure that each directory submitted to, has been thoroughly researched and is not blacklisted by any search engine.

This article has been written by an expert from Link Popularity.

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20 Best Article Directories

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:13:39 +0000

Today, there are thousand of directories where you can submit your articles and this number is ever increasing. But the fact is that not each directory is good for submitting your articles for getting the maximum output. There are directories that are not much visited by users, so submission of your articles in these directories may be a sheer wastage of valuable time and effort.

Hence, it is vital to choose the most visited, the frequently crawled and the most syndicated article directories, if you are in the article marketing circle. Not many people know about the best article directories, so in order to help them, we have prepared a list of some highly rated directories that help improve the ranking of your articles in search engine. The list has been compiled by very experienced people in article marketing. We have provided a brief information on every article directory so that you can understand the purpose.

This list of directories is based on the following factors that include:

Faster approval time
Free to submit
Provide back links
“Do-follow” Frequently(Instantly in some case) crawled by search engines
Syndicate articles to blogs and websites

Ezine Articles PR-6
Ezinearticles is the Industry leader with more visitors and comparatively larger syndication and it accepts 2 links in the resource box. You can embed the links with keywords. If you have articles, this is the first place to submit them.
The free Library PR-7
The free library has a faster approval rate. Once the article is approved, which normally takes 24 hours, the content is instantly crawled by Google. This site accepts links from the body of the article up to 3 links.
Gather PR-7
Gather is a social networking portal where you can submit your articles. Gather is readily crawled and has a good PR. If your articles are sensational then your traffic is guaranteed. They accept quality articles.
GoArticles PR-6
Go Articles has more than a million articles and is probably one of the biggest and most syndicated article directories. The website offers content feed and RSS feed to blogs. GoArticles also accepts embedded links in the body of the article and my rating for it is 4.
Self Growth PR-6
This is an excellent resource for articles related to self growth, health, spirituality and life style. The site accept 3 links from the resource box and you can have it embedded from the keywords.
Article DashBoard PR-5
While offering a simple yet effective article directory, they give the article directory script for free. This has had both positive as well as negative effects. Some of them misuse the script to make MFA (Made For Adsense) sites which has downgraded the quality of Article directories. Despite all, the site is a good place to submit your article.
ArticleClick PR-5
This site accepts links only in the resource box. ArticleClick is crawled frequently and has a good number of indexed pages at Google. But they accept articles with only 400 words or more.
ArticleAlley PR-5
ArticleAlley is another great site which is known for the feed syndication.
The site offers a faster approval time and it accepts embedded links from the body of the article. They offer article writing services and the writers can contact them.
ArticlesBase PR-5
Another good article directory which readily approves articles and supports a layout similar to ezinearticles. ArticleBase accepts links in the body of the article as well as the resource box and accepts both embedded and raw HTML format for links.
Isnare PR-5
Isnare is probably the most syndicated article directory as it allows syndication to the 3 major article directory scripts. This site helps create content sites for free in no time. For submitting here, your article should be a minimum of 500 words to get approved at isnare.
Amazines PR-5
The layout looks a bit clogged but it is a very effective article directory. It allows unlimited links in the body of the article and has a good approval rate.
ArticleSeen PR-4
ArticleSeen has a unique design and it has been revamped lately. They accept embedded links in the resource box content.
SearchWarp PR-4
SearchWarp is a very active article directory with current news, discussion, comments etc. The site is more or less a community that is known as the “Writers Community”. This is ideal place to submit your article.
ArticleBlast PR-4
ArticleBlast has easy syndication features and has a good approval rate and they They you allow up to 3 links in the body of the article and in the resource box as well.
ArticlesFactory PR-4
Another frequently indexed article directory. The site is a simple directory with ease of use navigational features and they accept links only in the resource box.
EasyArticles PR-4
As they say “Everyone wins because the authors get the credit and exposure they deserve for their free articles and website owners get good, legal, free website content to help generate quality traffic” this is an excellent place for submitting articles.
ArticleRich PR-4
For submission of article, it must be 300 words or more to get approved. They accept up to 2 links in the body. They have strict policies in approving. ArticleRich has a good number of indexed pages in Google.
ArticlePool PR-4
A fast growing article directory with clean layout, nice navigation and a good approval rate. This direcotry allows links in the body of the article. Also they offer article distribution services.
Free-articles-zone PR-4
This website approves any article, it helps to submit here. The site provide the email of the author which I think will lead to SPAM. This is one directory where you can submit any article and expect the backlinks.
Ezine-Writer PR-4
Ezine-Writer claims to have about 90,000 unique visitors per month which is considerable.
They have a relatively simple system to submit articles.

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Top 50 PR 3+ Directories

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:54:32 +0000

Some people are of the view that submitting their websites to web directories is enough. No, this is a misconception if you think so. Today, there is a myriad of directories and all of them are not suitable for submitting your site. Some directories have low-rate of indexed pages and hence they are not much of use for getting your site popular or increasing its ranking in search engines. On the other hand, there are a number of reputed web directories that have good rate of indexed pages and are really useful for obtaining search engine ranking for your websites.

The added advantage of submitting a website in the highly-rated directories is that they are crawled by Google effectively. They are quite effective in improving the ranking of websites in search engines. They are good for enhancing the link popularity of your website. So , it is obviously of paramount importance to get your site listed in the top web directories.

Here is the list of 50 high PR directories. The list will be updated at regular basis so that everyone can take the advantage of high Page Rank directories. This list of free directories is based on the following criteria.

Free to submit
Easy to submit
No Reciprocal link
Pr3+ Directories
Good Google indexed pages

http://www.dmoz.org
Page rank:8
indexed pages: 1,730,000
Dmoz a largest and most comprehensive human-edited web directory. Submit a website by browsing through the category. It has the top Google indexed pages.
http://dir.yahoo.com
Page rank: 8
Indexed pages: 1,320,000
http://directory.google.com
Page rank: 8
Indexed pages: 194,000
http://www.yusearch.com
Page rank:8
Indexed pages: 541
http://www.turnpike.net
Page rank:5
Indexed pages: 2,330
http://www.websquash.com
page rank:5
Indexed pages: 719
http://www.zepti.net
Page rank:5
Indexed pages: 396
http://www.skoobe.biz
Page rank:5
Indexed pages: 275
http://www.info-listings.com
Page rank:5
Indexed pages: 272
http://gzzt.org
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 14,700
http://www.esiq.org
page rank:4
Indexed pages: 8,840
http://www.pegasusdirectory.com
page rank:4
Indexed pages: 8,520
http://www.topsiteswebdirectory.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 7,660
http://www.intelseek.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 6,940
http://www.thelessonfinder.com
Page rank: 4
Indexed pages: 4,630
http://www.sentenceseek.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 4,180
http://www.infignos.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 3,190
http://www.ablazedirectory.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 2,590
http://www.eliteweb.cc/directory
Page arnk:4
Indexed pages: 1,500
Signup is required for submit a new website.
http://www.xoogie.net
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 1,380
http://www.rashmagazine.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 1,140
http://www.norlinks.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 1,050
http://www.cyberwebsearch.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 1,040
http://www.directorystorm.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 566
http://www.londovor.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 520
http://www.directory-global.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 368
http://w8.net/search/search.cgi
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 350
http://www.linkaddurl.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 250
http://onemission.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 225
http://www.sonicrun.com
Page rank:4
Indexed pages: 152
http://www.ciscb.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 24,400
http://www.all-linkdirectory.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 23,400
http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 22,300
http://www.best-net-sites.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 16,700
http://www.freewd.org
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 15,900
http://www.viesearch.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 13,700
http://www.placeyourlinks.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 8,550
http://www.comoestamos.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 7,990
http://www.thalesdirectory.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 7,850
http://www.mydirectorylive.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 7,170
http://littlewebdirectory.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 5,730
http://www.directory-free.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 5,530
http://www.dramba.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 5,380
http://www.freeonlinedirectory.info
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 4,470
http://www.webnetclick.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 4,320
http://www.webdiro.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 4,060
http://www.jhucr.org
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 3,750
http://www.linkdirectory.com
Page rank:3
Indexed pages: 3,570
http://www.theopendirectory.biz
Page rank: 3
Indexed pages: 3,140
http://www.mygreencorner.com
Page rank:3 Indexed pages: 2,300
pages: 1,320

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Gain Link Popularity By Submitting Your Articles On Internet Directory

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:51:18 +0000

One of the most effective ways to achieve link popularity is to submit your websites or articles to search engines and at the same time also submit them to web directories, which are a popular way to increase the traffic to your site and thereby generate huge revenues. Search engines include data in their data base along with the links on the World Wide Web. Popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN use links from human edited directories to know the credibility of a site that they index. It is, therefore important for you to get your site listed in web directories in order to promote your links.

Here are some simple steps for getting listed in Internet directories:

Website design- The website design is a must to achieve good ranking in search engines. A website should have a professional look and design as per the target audience. Hence, your first step would be creating an attractive site in order to bring huge traffic to your site.
Internet directory submission instructions- The next step would be submitting your website to Internet directories that make your site popular by increasing the number of visitors to it. There are proper rules and laws regarding submission. Read those rules and make the appropriate directory submission.
Content with well-placed key words- The usage of keywords plays a key role in enhancing your link popularity. So, writing effective articles with proper linking, plus placing keywords in their right positions is the most valuable article for the promotion of your site.
Genuine contact details- Internet directories attach much importance to the shopping sites that provide genuine contact numbers and addresses for the shoppers. Such sites get high ranking in these directories and enjoy profitable Internet marketing.

Hence, only submission of your site to search engine and Internet directories is not enough, there are steps that you need to follow before the submission of your website.

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Steps To Get Back Links Faster

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:21:20 +0000

Link exchange is one of the popular strategies to promote your website and achieve good search engine ranking. If you are having a website, you must be aware of the fact that proper linking plays a key role to drive traffic to your site and make it popular among the users in the world. Getting quality links is not an easy task, you need to follow some suggested steps.

Here are some valuable steps that can help you find great links for your website:

Finding good link partners- When it come to gaining quality links, it is necessary to know your link partner. You may find tow types of link partners. First, partners who are worthless. They place links, but no body looks at, they have no Page Rank. On the other hand, there are partners that are very crucial for your site as they give you high value links with high Page Rank. They improve the ranking of your site, so it is better to opt for them.
Get listed in top directories- It is very important for you to get your site listed in Web directories such as Yahoo and the Open Directory Project in order to achieve good ranking in search engines. The directories improve the ranking of your website by generating huge traffic to your site.
Good content- Content is the soul of your website. If your site is filled with interesting articles, reports, data and reference material, then your site will definitely get links without any request. Hence, add content to your site, by writing and publishing your own articles and press releases.
Webmaster forums- Another good strategy to gain quality links is to get your website listed on webmster forums. Webmaster forums provide you with a space where you can enter your URL and get feed back from the other webmsters.
Divide links- Categorize links and then see your need. There are basically three types of links and they include:

Basic links- Refer to links having insignificant value
Self-created multi-links- Referring to links that your generate yourself through article submission, forum posts and blog entries.
High-value links- They are links which are highly valuable for generating traffic to your site and improve your SE ranking. They can be obtained from high traffic sites and highly rated directories.

Hence, if you want to get good links for your site, you may try the above strategies and see the results.

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Top 20 Free Press Release Directories

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:58:03 +0000

Press releases are required to spread the news among the readers. They are nowadays a common way of Internet advertising. They help you get valuable links and at the same time increase traffic to your site. However, you need to choose some best rated directories so that you can get the desired results. Your all efforts may go in vain if you do not choose newsworthy and credible directories.

While selecting a directory for your PR, make sure that it has a Google pagerank of 4 and above, because sites with no pagerank are not useful for your PR. Choose directories that can optimize your press releases for search engines by using certain SEO techniques such as header tags, tagging, anchor text and other techniques.

We have compiled a list of 20 top press release directories that will surely optimize search engine ranking for your PR, as they are based on the following factors:

They are the most crawled by major search engines
They are general and accept PR of every type
They are global and not just limited to a particular region
Free and easy to submit
Syndicated to Press and Media
SPAM free
Have “Do Follow”

http://www.media-newswire.com
PR-6 “Do Follow” MediaNews Wire offers both paid and free inclusion. The paid version can have logo’sImages and links inside the PR. Iit approves your PR in quicjk span of time. For the free inclusion of press releases , it takes amost 48 hours. You can give your website details in the bottom of the Press Release. The paid service is offered at $29 / PR.
http://www.free-press-release.com
PR-5 “Do Follow” Almost they approve every type of PR. They offer both the paid and freeinclusion of Press releases. The paid option range selling from $1 to $5. They approve your press releases quickly.
http://www.1888pressrelease.com
PR-5 “Do Follow” They offer both free and paid plans for 10,25 and $50. This site does not provide links in the body or bottom of thePR, but the paid versions display the links and the website below the PR.
http://www.prlog.org/
PR-5 “Do Follow” has fast approval and they convert press releases into PDF format and provides HTML version as well. Links can be provided in the body of the Press release. This site is 100% free to use. They claim that they send the PR free to Google News, Msn Live and various other sites.
http://www.pr.com
PR-5 “No Follow” They offer both paid and free options. The paid options generally start from $30-$60-$100. They allow html in body of PR for paid inclusions. They also distribute PR to Yahoo news, Google and several social media sites.
http://www.malebits.com/
PR-5 “Do Follow” This website accepts plain text format for free inclusion and html Press Release for paid inclusion. Their charges start from 7$ / month to upto 10 links from PR. They accept only 70 characters in the title and PR should be manually done.
http://www.clickpress.com
PR-5 “Do Follow” Click Press approves PR with html format and distributes to Google News, Yahoo and Msn. They have both a free and paid option. The paid version starts from 350$/month for unlimited PR distribution to media sites, USPRWIRE and UKPRWIRE.
http://www.openpr.com/
PR-5 “Do Follow” This website accepts html and links in the body of the Press Release. They syndicate PR’s through channels to various blogs and websites, plus they publish thumbnails and related images.
http://www.prfree.com/
PR-5 “Do Follow” PR free has a separate section for Journalists. A journalist or media company can create accounts for free and receive news in their email from relevant industry. This website does not accept links in the body of press release, but it displays the entire website in a scrollable frame.
Merinews.com
PR- 5/ 49,687 – This website is just like journal offering press release distribution service.
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com
PR-4 “Do Follow” Press Release Point is a free site that distributes your press releases to online media and other sites. The site requires a registration to submit press releases. They allow html inside the press release and offer both free and paid distribution service.
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com
PR-4 “Do Follow” 24-7 Press Release is yet another powerful directory that provides both free and paid options to the individuals or a company. The paid model starts from $49. They also offer separate sections for publishers, advertisers and journalist. More interestingly, they distribute streaming video Prs.
http://www.free-press-release-center.info
PR-4 “Do Follow” They allow you links in the Press Release. They have a paid and free service. They allow the users to download PR as PDF documents. Also they offer Press release writing services for $49.
http://www.pressmethod.com/
PR-4 “Do Follow” PressMethod distributes to about 1450 media sites including Google news. This is a free International PR distribution site that offers 14 free and paid plans starting from $5.
http://www.pressreleasespider.com
PR-4 “Do Follow” Press Release Spider is a simple free general PR distribution site and it does not allow links in body of the PR, however you can give the URL that they provide on top of the PR.
http://www.information-online.com
PR-4 “Do Follow” accepts PRfor Business News and Press releases. They have a tag navigation and distribute news through RSS feeds. They require registration for submitting PR and they accept HTML formats in the PR with links back to URLs.
http://www.transworldnews.com
PR-4 “Do Follow” General PR directory which offers the most comprehensive and up to date publication of national and international news releases. They also accept links in the body of the Press Releases.The site provides both free and paid model for distribution Press Release.
EcommWire.com
PR- 4 / Alexa 107,600 – They have low traffic but this site is really good for e-commerce related press releases. They allow add three keywords, image and pass a link with the anchor text.
http://www.ideamarketers.com
PR-3 “Do Follow” Idea Marketers is basically an Article directory but provides a section for Press releases.They faster crawl rate and accept the press releases for free. They allow you provide html inside the body of the Press release.
http://www.live-pr.com
PR-3 “Do Follow” This site is syndicated to Google News. Your press releases submitted here are instantly available at Google news. They have English and German Versions for submitting your PR.

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Does irrelevant linking have negative impact on your site?

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:33:57 +0000

As per the SEO experts, linking your website to non-related websites have negative impact on your website as it will not help you gain good rankings in search engines. Thus, it will be a sheer wastage of efforts and valuable time. To put it simply, if your site has too many irrelevant links, it will have negative effect on the SERPs . Hence, be careful while getting links for your website. Find out relevant and quality links instead of packing your site with non-related links.

For making your site available for other related sites to make it more popular, you need to link your site to the websites that have relevant content irrespective of its PR. Today, there are so many softwares that help in managing ‘linking programs.’ They provide links from anyone, but you will be surprised to know that these programs have been the least successful in terms of gaining SE ranking for the websites as they collect so many irrelevant links. So, they have been a burden for your website instead of being resources to improve your site’s ranking.

Hence, one should understand the fact that quality links are important for gaining good search engine ranking. Non- related links will pass your PR ( page rank), but they will have little effect or no effect on the SERPs.

Now, it is almost clear that anyone linking for the purpose of achieving high search engine rankings, needs to get proper links if he or she wants to improve the ranking of his or her website. So, do not stock your website or webpages with improper links.

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How To Improve Link Popularity

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:08:48 +0000

These days, getting high search engine ranking is the goal of almost every website. So, the link popularity is very important as it helps to improve you gain high ranking. Link popularity refers to the total number of external sites that link to yours. Gaining quality links from high ranking sites play a crucial role to make your site popular in the search engine and achieve the desired ranking.

This is the time when search giants like Google attach great importance to link popularity of your website. Hence, finding high ranking sites and then linking them to your own site will surely increase your site ranking in Google.

Here are few tips on how to increase the link popularity of your website:

1-Listing the site in search engine directories- The first and foremost thing that your need to do is that get your website listed in the human edited search engine directories of ODP (Open Directory Project – dmoz.org) and Yahoo (yahoo.com). Your listing in these sites will give your site high ranking in other search engines as well. However, this process of listing may be time consuming. So it is better that you get much faster links from search specific search engine directories, if you want to save time.

2-High quality content- It is rightly said that a content is the king. Without a good content, it is not possible to gain high ranking for your website. People naturally visit your site if it is having quality content with well-placed keywords. One of ways to achieve this is that you write and publish your own articles with the proper links at the end of each article.

3- Writing testimonial- There is no doubt that writing reviews of someone’s products or website also increases the ranking and popularity of your site. In the testimonial, include the benefits that you got by visiting one’s website. If the person for whom you have written the testimony, want your testimonial his site, will link back to your site

4- Requesting links from other popular sites- Gain quality links from other popular websites and include them in your site along with content you write for your website. This will increase the traffic to your website and thus you will be able to gain high ranking.

So these are some tried and tasted steps to improve the link popularity of your site. These steps will definitely help you achieve good ranking in the search engines.

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