2 Simple Things You Need To Do To Get Traffic

[bobmutch]

2 Simple Things You Need To Do To Get Traffic

For people that are serious about driving convertible traffic to their website and have a budget the following are 2 simple things you can do, or have done, to get a noticeable increase in traffic and sales.

1) Submitting your web site to free and pay web directories, what I would call Google-blessed-links.

2) Do a proper reciprocal link campaign that produces a quality resource of related website for your site visitors and lots of inbound links that will bring convertable traffic.

Free & Pay Web Directories:

A) 150 free web directory listings. You can do this yourself or there are a number of people that will do this for you (it takes about 10 hours if you know what you are doing). You can switch up the keywords in these 150 - "SEO Company – Text Link Broker" and "SEO Company – Web Submission Services" are a couple that I have used. Use an email that is from the domain you are submitting to get a higher acceptance rate.

B) Pay Web Directories. You can spend as much as you want there. $300, $500 even $1,000 to $1,500 easy. The top directories with name recognition are DMOZ.org (free), Yahoo.com (free/$299/yr), Business.com ($199/yr), bCentral ($50/yr).

I have provided below a list of pay websites that will get you started. The website in my Custom User Title under my nick has a my website where there is a list of over 150 free web directories and also 80 pay web directories.

You want to go with the directories that offer the most links. The web directories in my list of 80 paid directories that are bolded are the cream of the crop when it comes to most links. Here are 2 sets of 10 pay directories that provide the most links.

http://sbd.bcentral.com/ ($50yr) 10 links - 9 keyword rich titles - PR7
http://www.octopedia.com/ ($13) 8 links - 7 keyword rich titles - PR2
http://www.worldsiteindex.com/ ($14) 6 links - 6 keyword rich titles - PR4
http://www.abilogic.com/ ($13) 6 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR5
http://www.uncoverthenet.com/ ($69) 5 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR7
http://www.wowdirectory.com/ ($20) up to 6 links - up to 6 keyword rich titles - PR6
http://www.allwebdirectory.com/ ($40) up to 5 links - up to 5 keyword rich titles- PR4
http://www.sevenseek.com/ ($40) - 1 deep link per sub - multi subs - PR7
http://www.site-sift.com/ ($35) – 1 deep link per sub - multi subs – PR6
http://www.platinax.co.uk/directory/ ($19) - 1 deep link per sub - multi subs - PR6

After you add your site, or have it added, to the above web directories there are 9 more.

http://www.wowyellowpages.com/ ($20) up to 6 links - up to 6 keyword rich titles - PR4
http://www.biz-directory.org/ ($40) up to 5 links - up to 6 keyword rich titles - PR6
http://www.allthebizz.com/ ($15) up to 4 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR5
http://www.elib.org/ ($65) up to 4 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR7
http://www.bigall.com/ ($10) 2 links - 2 keyword rich titles - PR6
http://www.findhound.com/ ($15) up to 4 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR5
http://www.haabaa.com/ ($48) up to 4 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR4
http://www.indexunlimited.com/ ($29) up to 5 links - 5 keyword rich titles - PR5
http://www.smallerbizz.com/ ($15) up to 4 links - 4 keyword rich titles - PR4

All the above sites for the most part allow key words in the title like the following "SEO Company – Web Site Submissions".

These sites provide multi links or multi subs. I would suggest you have 9 optimized pages where the keywords are in the following places.

1) URL, 2) title, 3) meta description (at the beginning and not to long), 4) meta keywords, 5) h1/h2 tags, 6) first paragraph or the content in bold & italic, 7) and in the anchor text of a link at the bottom of the page (Top of Web Directory).

Write yourself a nice non-promotional description of your site. It’s the site you are describing not the company. Some thing like this will work. Here is a sample of one that I have written for my site.

Description: Offers Pagerank and linking articles, list of free and pay web directories, a Pagerank history update, and a directory of free SEO tools. Provides search engine optimization and marketing, text link brokerage and web site submission services.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the products nor am I paid to promote any of the products that have been given links on this page. I am an affiliate of Arelis and RM but none of the links on this page are affiliate links.

[bobmutch]

RECIPROCAL LINKS CAMPAIGN:

After you get your site in all those directories or have your SEO people do it for you, you want to get a reciprocal links campaign setup. You are going to want to create 50 categories of relevant subjects that your site visitors will see as good resources.

Choose your categories by doing a search with a tool that will access Overtures PPC - like this one.
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Choose categories that have high monthly searches. Try to stick with category names that have more than 10,000 searches a month.

Get a copy of Arelis and mine up 300 websites for each categories doing a search on Google with "allinanchor:key phrase".

This search term will get you the sites that have the most inbound links with those terms and they will be interested in your very relevant reciprocal link trade offer.

With Arelis you can filter out all .gov's and .edu's and Arelis' double paned layout you can hammer all the cheesy sites. Keep in mind that higher the monthly searches your category phrases have, the less cheesy sites you will mine up and the fewer sites you have to delete.

Export these into a good automated reciprocal manger like RM (RM requires apache/php/mySQL).
www.reciprocalmanager.com (http://www.reciprocalmanager.com/)

RM will let you send out mini campaigns where you target 2 or 3 categories of web sites per keyword. The email you send out has a link back to the RM data base so you don't have to deal with title and description changes. Also it sends out 3 requests and then deletes them from the db.

RM also checks once a week via a cron job to make sure the reciprocal link you were given are still up and if they are not RM sends them up to 3 requests to log in and provide the reciprocal link again. After 3 emails and no response the system deletes them from the db.

After you mine up 15,000 sites into your db (using 5 computers you can mine 2500 sites an hour) you need to rent some text link ads. I suggest you find sites that have IBL’s of around 200k to 500k. These will be high traffic sites because of all the inbound links. Try to get on the home page or the main sub-pages. Make sure they will display your ads toward the top of the page where they are visible. I would suggest 1 or 2 home pages or 4 or 5 sub pages.

Run those ads for about 3 or 4 months and then start your link campaign. Having those links from sites that have a high number of IBL’s and lots of traffic will make your reciprocal links more attractive. People can tell when you have lots of good high traffic text link ads pointed at your site by number the Google PR tool gives your pages. Of course people would rather trade links with a site that has lots of high traffic links as those high traffic links you have will bring them more traffic. Starting your link campaign after a toolbar PR update is usually a good time.

While there are other important issues to deal with on your site like navigation, fast loading, quality content, correct color coding, quality design, easy ecommerce, adding your site to a large number of web directories and providing your visitors with a quality partners websites resource that will bring you lots of traffic through its link trades is very important.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the products nor am I paid to promote any of the products that have been given links on this page. I am an affiliate of Arelis and RM but none of the links on this page are affiliate links.

[Mel]

Nice article Bob, but I cannot agree with this

Get a copy of Arelis and mine up 300 websites for each categories doing a search on Google with "allinanchor:key phrase".

This search term will get you the sites that have the most inbound links with those terms and they will be interested in your very relevant reciprocal link trade offer.

If you are implying that the allinanchor: search results are ranked in descending number of relevant anchor text links.

Do an allinachor search for expert search engine optimization and Google reports the number of links for the top five ranked sites as:

#1 - 57 links
#2 - 3 links
#3 - 118 links
#4 - 628 links
#5 - 7 links

and while that may not be the number of anchor text links to the sites, it seems much more than likely that the #2 site with only 3 links total has more relevant anchor text links than the #4 site which has 628 links reported by Google.

IMO all the allinanchor: search does is select for the ranking pool those sites that have that keyprase in one or more backlinks and then ranks the sites probably by the regular algo.

[bobmutch]

Mel: Thanks for the kind words. I won't take this thread off topic by getting into a discuss on the allinanchor: command. I would note those that I found using allinanchor: a good fast way to mine up 15,000 links when you are mining for categories that have a high Overture PPC monthy stats.

I used to do top 50 of this and top 50 of that and a number in allintitle: some from allintext, some from allinurl and some from allinanchor. But I found that a fast way to crank out 15,000 quality sites is just to use allinanchor:keyword.