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Link Building or building backlinks plays a major role in Search Engine Optimization, Getting a Higher Search Engine Ranking Positions and a Higher Pagerank.

If you are a new webmaster, and looking to build links from a high page ranked website like mine, Please add the below code to your Blog or Website’s Home Page

<a href=”http://www.syedtaha.com/link-building/free-directory-submission/20/”>Free Directory Submission</a>

After you have added the code, post a comment on this page to let us know where you have added the code. Also post your link, anchor text and decription. After reviewing we will add your link to our high page ranked blog.

If you want an entire page on our blog talking about your website/blog, follow the below steps to get a higher page rank link.

• Write an article (of around 300 to 400 words) about Search Engine Optimization, Link Building, Online Marketing etc
• Email your article to admin [at] syedtaha.com
• We will review your article. Edit it if required and also we will also add a link to your website or blog at the bottom of this article. This way you get a deep link from a high page rank blog.
• Now write a review about our blog and post it on your blog or website with a link to our home page. using the code

<a href=”http://www.syedtaha.com”>Search Engine Optimization and Link Building</a>

• Once all the steps above are done, we will add your article (with your link in it) to our high page ranked blog.

You must be wondering why webmasters are advised to use directory submissions to build one way backlinks to their websites or blogs. By link building, you may be building your websites brand, get a higher page rank, get a better search engine ranking position or simply wants some targeted traffic to your blog or website. In this article, lets discuss building links and search engine rankings through directory submissions.

Nowadays, We find millions of directories on the internet- some of them are free, a few are are paid links directories, and most of them areof no use. Before you start to build one way backlinks to your website or weblog using directory submissions, there are a few things you should consider before investing time and money.

The Directory’s Page Rank
The page rank of a website indicates the page’s importance and the value it can add to your website. But PR 2 with relevant content adds more value to your website than PR 5 with irrelevant content or category. Do not build links with a site based on the Page Rank, but remember that a site with a higher Page Rank, if related, will add more value and also helps your website get a higher Page Rank.

Outbound Links from the Page of your listing
You should start by checking the links of the page where your website would be listed after approval. If this page has greater than a hundred outbound links, this particular webpage is going to add very little value to your website. But there are always a few exceptions to this rule. Now, lets say that this particular webpage has a few websites listed that rank top ten in the search engines. This page has a Page Rank of 5 or greater, and this page is also very highly relevant to the niche of yours. Now, even if there are a hundred and fifty or even two hundred outbound links from this page, you can probably go ahead and get your website listed.

Examples of this are the Yahoo directory and the DMOZ directory. We know the importance of one way backlinks from the DMOZ directory. It has a page rank of 8/10. As we all know that your site listed on a page with the least number of links will give the most value. In the case of DMOZ, when we list our website to the related category which has more than a hundred outbound links, it still adds a great value to our website.

Categories
Check how many sub category pages are their in the main category in which you want to submit your website. If the parent category has more than ten pages of listings, we advise you not to submit your website because when you submit deeper into these pages, they add less value as they themselves hold very little value. In future, such pages may also affect the Directory’s Page Rank. Still if you want your website to be listed in this directory, see that your listing after approval will appear on the parent page or say the top pages.

To ensure this, check if the listings in this directory are alphabetical or if the new listings are added on the top or bottom. If the listings are alphabetical, you can go add your website but remember to name your listing with the starting alphabets like a or b. If they are being added to the top, you must know that over a period of time, as more websites are submitted, your website will go down to the pages, reducing its value.

Analyze Other Listings
Before submitting, lets analyze other website listings. Check if any of them are ranking high for relevant top keywords. Just try to find out if the other websites in the same category as yours are benefiting with a one way backlink from this directory.

The Key Word: Anchor-Text
Check if this directory allows you to use an Anchor-text or just submit a Url. Anchor-text adds a lot of value to your backlinks as the anchor text is usually seen as the keyword and also conveys to the search engines that your website is relevant to the category or content.

Is the Directory being indexed by Major Search Engines?
Don’t forget to check if the directory you are submitting to and your sub cateory pages are both indexed all the major search engines. If its a paid links directory and if it is not indexed, you are just wasting money. And If both the directory and your sub category are indexed and have a recent cache, your directory submission is worth.

Paid Directory Submissions
Ask yourself if paying to get a one way backlink from a directory is worth. Prices for a directory submission are from free to a few hundred dollars. If it’s a paid directory, don’t forget to check the PR of the directory as well as the category page where your website listing will appear, the success of other listing, if it’s a permanent listing, if it’s a single time or a recurring payment etc.

If you got a budget of three hundred dollars per annum, the two hundred and ninety nine dollars per annum for Yahoo directory makes sense, however, if you split that into listings in some other top ten directories with a page rank of four or higher, i.e. thirty dollars a year each, this may be a better option. It also depends on how high the quality of these directories is, and what the price is.

Can the Search Engine Bots see your link?
If you want a higher search engine ranking position, then you should definitely ensure that both – your link and the page that has your link, can both be fully spidered by Google. And also that, the “rel=nofollow” isn’t used in/on your website link, or on the category pages that are linking to the directory page and that the page is not being stopped by a Meta tag or by the robots text file. One way to check if the page is being spidered by the Google bot is to see its recent cache in index. And If the page is marked as a backlink for others websites listed, you can be pretty sure that your link will also be seen.

Spammed? – Is the Directory being Spammed
Make sure the directory you are submitting your link does not use hidden text/links, abusive popups etc. If the directory is promoting a software that uses an adware/malware, you should never submit your website to it.

If the directory is free, and if it doesn’t require an approval from the editor, you may not want to get your website listed as it will sometime in the near future end up with irrelevant spammy links. And this probably will pull down both your backlinks and the directory’s value to a negative.

There are a lot of different ways to build backlinks for your website and directory submission Is one of them. By submitting your website to relevant websites and directories you can help your sites overall ranking and link popularity to grow. Directory submission links are considered to be very important as they are free one way backlinks, permanent and easy to build.

We all should know that the Search Engines have altogether changed their algorithms years ago. Building links to your website is still as important as it was. How to get more backlinks is now how to get quality backlinks. As now, link building is more important with relevant websites rather than just building hundreds and thousands of unrelated paid links to your website. Google has announced in its official blogs and all over the Web that getting paid inbound links can get your website disappear permanently from their search engines and has also started on their campaign to penalize paid links and the websites selling paid links. Another reason why paid links are not advised is that, when you get too many inbound links to your website overnight or perhaps over a week, you set on the alarms as this doesn’t seem natural and your website can also get penalized by Google.

Why waste the money to but paid links?

I know its tempting when we see these ads saying ten thousand links for just ten dollars. But the more important thing to consider is whether these thousands of paid links are helping your website or blog to rank better in search engines or increasing your websites Paid Rank or not. The answer to this question would be definitely NO. The importance of one way backlinks which we acquire over a period of time is always more than the paid links which we get overnight. So why don’t we invest these ten dollars for something more useful like PPC to get some quality traffic to our website.

Getting Quality links NOT Quantity is the key.

Getting a dozen of quality inbound links from website relevant to your niche and from the websites with a higher Page rank is far better than just getting a thousand or maybe ten thousand paid links from irrelevant and lower Page rank websites. The user friendly websites with rich, helpful and quality information ranks higher in the eyes of the search engines. So, inbound links from such websites will be telling the search engines that you are a quality website too.

Paid Links: The Grey Line

News of Google going down on paid links and websites selling paid links disappearing from Google’s index has been published all over the Web. Now very soon, Google will step in and take control of the situation so that the webmasters will have to stop buying paid links to get high Page Rank and SERPs. We are really unsure how Google is going to penalize paid links, but have already started seeing that the paid links are not being indexed by Google. It is now time to build quality inbound links. And so, we advice you and ourselves started to build links with Google alerts which helps us build quality backlinks from relevant websites or blogs of higher page rank.

Backlinks can be acquired with just a little knowledge and hard work. In this article, you will read four great link building tips to get as many backlinks as possible within a short period of time which will help your website climb up the rankings and get you more traffic.

Articles

The very first thing I suggest is to start writing articles. Every successful website these days have written at least 30 articles and submitted them to different article directories. Remember not to submit duplicate articles to several directories as Google does not like duplicate content and so, they are not indexed. Adding your link to these articles create a backlink every time you submit an article. And remember these are backlinks which add more value to your website. I recommend to stick to the most popular and higher ranked article directories which will help you get backlinks , ranking and immediate traffic.

Blog Comments

Another way to get backlinks is through blog comments. All you have to do is find blogs of similar niche to yours by using Google blog search, and write comments. You may also build links with Google alerts. Remember to comment by following the discussion as most of the comments have to be approved by the owner before they are posted. Keep in mind that the backlinks are worth more only if they come from a website related to yours. I suggest you to write at least 50 words in the comment and always try and follow the topic. This is the only thing that’s going to differentiate you from a spammer and get you more traffic.

Reciprocal Links

Search engines don’t like the websites that are composed of hundred percent reciprocal links. But having at least thirty percent reciprocal links is a good idea as the search engines look positively on this and believe you are a real webmaster and not a spam bot. And remember to get all you links from related websites. The importance of one way backlinks is more but reciprocal links also get your website a lot of targeted traffic.

Backlink Checkers

You should always use backlink checkers to see what works so good for your successful competitors. Just go to Google and type “backlink checkers”. Then enter your competitors web url and check who links to them. Now you can clearly see where your competitor is getting links from. You can also try and get backlinks from the same websites. As this helps your competitor, it will also do wonders for your website.

Webmaster need to build one way backlinks to their website to make sure their increase their search engine rankings. One way backlinks are the most difficult links to get as they involve a lot of hard work and patience. Perhaps, this is why they are so valuable in the search engine’s eyes. There are a lot of ways you can get one way backlinks to your website and they are useful in some way like getting you traffic, higher search engine ranking position etc. But the most important of all is that they get you a higher pagerank.

There are a lot of link building strategies used by webmasters to get as many one way backlinks as possible. The most important and the best type of one way backlink is through another website or blog, similar to yours in terms of content, where they give you an in-content one way backlink.

Some webmasters may link to your blog or website. This can happen over a period of time if you write some great content on your own blog. Moreover, you can also ask for a one way backlink on a blog in return for writing content for them. Or you can also get one way backlinks by linking their website on some other blog of yours. If you build your backlinks using this method, then you stand a chance of getting a great search engine ranking over a period of time.

Another few methods that can be used to build one way backlinks to your site are submitting your articles with your link in them to article directories, social bookmarking, directory submissions, forum signatures, or build links with Google alerts. All of these methods can get your website a lot of one way backlinks and in time, this will end up getting your website a decent pagerank. The above methods will not have instantaneous results, but over a period of time they will definitely improve the rankings of your website.

You may build thousand of one way backlinks to your website or blog using the above methods. And if you are serious about taking your site to the top positions in search engine positions, then you need to spend some time building links and wait for the results. You will never see quick results, but when your backlinks start ageing; your website will get a great ranking in the search engines. This is because in the eyes of the search engines, a lot of weight is given to older links than the newer ones.

The most important thing to make revenue from your website is targeted traffic. And the easiest and the most inexpensive way to get targeted traffic is through search engines. But then, if you can afford to spend some money to make more money, you can also go with pay per click advertising programs.

You can get a lot of targeted traffic to your website through the right keywords. All you have to do is figure out which keywords you should optimize on your website. Ideally, in some time you will rank high for many keywords in the search engines.

You always need to promote your website or blog by building more and more one way backlinks. This helps you get a better ranking in search engines, more traffic, and above all more sales.

One you see that you have achieved a great ranking; you still need to build one way backlinks to make sure you always stay on top of your competitors.