Long time ago link directories were very valued by webmasters. It was the time when link directories provided big value in the term of traffic, link popularity, pr juice passing and getting new site indexed. Search engines liked link directories since every directory was a free link review company for them… They used directory links heavily for ranking… This leaded that people started overusing link directory niche, and quantity did not gave quality.
Now time is different, there are no more so useful directories. Some examples of good directories are Web Dir and Business Directory. How to decide which link directory is good for you and that its big probability you will get ROI back.
Follow this few points (however they are now guarantee until:
1. Does directory have any Google PR?
2. Is your picked directory indexed? Try searching on Google some of the deep directory pages or try using “site” directive to find how much directory is indexed.
3. Is “nofollow” attribute appended to every outgoing link from the directory? If yes then you have no value from it in term of SEO.
4. Does directory have any traffic? If no then there is no chance it will pass some traffic to you.
5. Is directory organized and how much there is site listed on every category listing. Smaller number the better for you, since everything with way to much outgoing link can imply it is link farm.
6. Does directory accept every kind of websites? If yes skip it.
If you filter your directory list by these criteria then you will find that a link directories submission actually still works, and that it’s a cheap way to boost your rankings.
Recently I came in contact with some company named Nett Solutions. I needed some quick pay per click massive campaign searched out and found them, but after looking around for term Nett Solutions scam and similar words I figured out that it might not be wise to work with them. So I researched little bit more and now I am really confused.
On Nett Solutions site they claim and promise nice placement on sponsored results on Google and Yahoo, yet however every page I found online where people claim they are scammers they talk about like Nett Solutions promised top positions on Google and Yahoo and they did not. So it looks people simply paid some PPC campaign to them and then they expected to be positioned on Google and Yahoo organic search results. Is it possible that they got so confused when on Nett Solutions site is clearly stated that they promise positioning for SPONSORED results, not organic ones. So it could be easy that they in the end are not scammers just a victim of circumstances. I can bet that it is same situation with every company that offers marketing over PPC campaigns over various ad networks.
PPC campaigns can not influence search engine organic results. If people expect those then they should deploy a SEO company, which will then optimize their site and start some offpage work and then they should expect some results and even in that case without guarantee. It is becoming so hard to work with people these days…
Wondering does anyone have more info about these guys?
Email marketing is very popular type od direct marketing, with which marketer uses electronic mail to reach your desired audience. When hear term email marketing people usually start to think on it as a spam, but many emails you receive daily is email marketing and it’s not a near the spam term.
There are many advantages of using email marketing. In many cases email marketing will enhance your customer loyalty, in other case you will reach specific audience, email newsletter management service will keep your customer updated with the needed news, you can track your sent and replied emails easily and on top of everything you can repeat it on regular time periods.
Email marketing is currently one of the most popular internet marketing ways in USA and Western Europe especially UK. Many known vendors like Western Digital, Olympus or large companies like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft use it very often…
There are some disadvantages of email marketing, but most of them can be eliminated using proper email marketing company, or using email marketing by your self on proper way.
Most important thing is that you customer don’t think on your emails as unsolicited emails or spam. Other thing to worry is percentage of spam on internet. Over 55% email sent daily worldwide are spam. What this mean for your internet marketing?
Basically your user spam filters can in certain situation recognize your email as spam. In that case user will never get the message you sent them. Luckily this point also can be eliminated by using email marketing professionals.
Conclusion is simple. Don’t avoid email marketing, not all email marketing is a spam.
Directory submissions are performed to help a website to get more back links and achieve better ranking. Now if you have been on the internet for a while you know Google is the most popular search engine right now. And if your website is on the first page for your chosen keywords then you will likely to receive many visitors. It’s almost like free advertising once the work. You should focus on more than just using the search engine to get traffic to your website. But if your website is new you probably want to submit it to directories to gain some initial boost of back links. These are the foundation of a successful SEO campaign. It’s not a fun task but it needs to be done if you want to achieve good results on the search engines.
Your primary goal of submitting to web directories is to get one way inbound links from other high ranking websites. You want to focus on directories that are established and have a high Pagerank. Because those that are new will not pass much value to your website, stick to the established ones to save you time and gain better results. There are two ways to submitting a website to directories. One is to do it manually by hand, one at a time on your browser. The second option would be to use a automatic directory submission script or software to automate all/part of the task. If you’ve never done any directory submissions in the past you might want to do a couple manually to get a feel of the process. You will understand it better and able to make better choices when using the automated option.
Some high quality directories will have captchas that require you to enter some numbers to verify that you are a human. And if you are using a software to do this, make sure it can pick this up and present it to you. This is why it would be impossible to automate the process completely, and you should avoid using one hundred percent automated software, instead use semi-automated ones as they can produce the same results as manual submissions.
Last few days I am again having problems with my hosting provider. After I changed Fly High to Cats Nine reseller I was very satisfied for almost 6 months and then troubles are starting. Server Eli which is located in London Blue Square constantly has issues, first connectivity, then usage and finally firewall. I can’t say anything against the Cats Nine since their support was always quick and they always responded fast, but it’s almost 20 days and they can’t solve the issue. What is more ironic my old hosting where I have few sites is currently passing 383 days of uptime. I don’t remember when I needed to contact them, but I don’t want to put more sites there since I don’t like to have all eggs in one casket.
While I still don’t think to leave Cats Nine I started investigating another hosting options, especially VPS packages, but it looks my budget is still small for the mentioned managed service.
According to the Web Hosting Reviews and threads on WHT it looks Blue Host would be nice solution even it is not full reseller. But then problem is that I need WHM, even I don’t sell hosting, I have few clients who want their independent cPanels. Other option is well known Host Gator another big name. So as Blue Host they offer everything unlimited which is IMHO impossible. Sooner or later you will cross some invisible line which will lead to an account suspension.
Anyway, now let’s go back to the further research. I would appreciate some good hosting suggestions from your personal opinions. Reseller is not a condition, but mostly reliable hosting with 99.9 uptime and where I can put at least 50 small sites, every up to 1000 UV daily. Not more then 5 GB of space. Good support, which know what they are doing is a must have.
