Turn Low Quality Links into High Quality Links
January 23, 2008
These days, submission software is available to automate (or semi-automate) posting to thousands of directories. Be they article directories, link directories or otherwise, chances are there's software that will make the submission job easier.
The problem is, though, that this software usually submits to a few high quality sites and hundreds of low quality sites. The software vendors know that the more sites it submits to, the more impressive it sounds. After all, which would you be more willing to pay $97 for: software that submits to 50 directories, or software that submits to 2,500? For most people the answer is clear.
You will often find that once you've taken the time to submit to a few directories per day over many weeks or months, that Google never seems to find the links and apply them to your ranking. You spent all that time to "do it right" (because you know that submitting to hundreds or thousands of directories at once will get your links sandboxed), and yet you're not getting any love from Google.
One common reason why this is the case is because the directories you've submitted to are not crawled very often by Google. One thing that PageRank is useful for is getting a site crawled regularly, and updated pages indexed quickly. Most of the low quality sites have little or no PageRank, and so Google doesn't visit them much. If Google doesn't visit, the page with your link doesn't get crawled, the link doesn't get seen, and you get no benefit from it.
Also, my experience shows that Google limits how deep it will crawl sites like directory sites unless the sites have enough inbound links to internal pages. I have a site that has literally hundreds of thousands of pages, but Google has only indexed 61,000 despite the site having a PageRank of 4 (usually plenty to get a site crawled very often). Almost all of the links to that site point to the home page, though, and so many of the pages remain unindexed.
Take heart, though, because there's something you can do about this!
All it takes to make sure your links are seen by Google is to point a few links of your own to the pages that contain the links you want Google to know about. This is easy: just go to a site like SocialMarker.com and get a few links to each page from social bookmarking sites. Yes, you will be helping the owner of the site or directory by getting a few extra links to their site, but you will also be helping yourself because Google will find the link that remained invisible to it before.
So there you go. Add this practice to your routine of submitting to a few directories each day and you'll find that Google starts indexing the pages where your links appear much more quickly. That means the link power will be applied much more quickly, and you'll start getting some love from Google a lot sooner!
Two important notes: 1) Some directories submitted to by mass submission software use tricky tactics like preventing the links from being followed in the robots.txt file, or using the nofollow attribute in all outgoing links. So before you regularly submit to these directories, do some research to find out if they are actually applying link juice to the submissions. 2) Do not use mass submission software that submits to hundreds or thousands of places at one time. Only use software that lets you submit to a dozen or so sites of your choosing each day. Mass submission will get the links sandboxed by Google, which means Google will ignore them for a long time (months) — if they ever get counted at all.
Plast post your thoughts in a comment below!
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Jonathan Leger has been earning his living online full-time since the fall of 2004. He regularly posts advice about search engine optimization (his current passion), AdSense and Internet Marketing. 
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Thanks for the tip…
But I think directories or social sites have greater PRs
than yours so naturally they will be crawled by Go ogle.
Once again Jonathan,
"Rock Solid" advice. Just one suggestion though, you can place an "add me" bookmark button to the template of the site or manually on each page. That way visitors can bookmark aswell which saves you time. I use it and its great.
best regards
Rod Gardner
Great advice, using time-delayed article submissions and high quality spinning in conjunction with this tactic can be extremely powerful. I've recommended this to Jetsubmitter users in the past and some have reported great results after implementation.
Thanks!
Hi Jonathon,
Once again, some very good reading and good information. I sure am glad i am on your mailing list.
Keep up the good work
Hyena:
The point is that mass submission software submits to hundreds of sites that don't have enough links to get crawled fully. Of course the big ones do, but this post was in regards to "the others."
I bookmark almost all of my links that I get elsewhere and I sometimes will even throw a link in an article I write. Thats one other thing I do to is bookmark my articles as well….
I myself would never use mass auto submission to submit to directories…..In my opinion their are only a few good directories out their anyway let alone submitting to thousands of them…
Jon Said:
"Almost all of the links to that site point to the home page, though, and so many of the pages remain unindexed."
I said:
Thats where internal linking plays a big role in my opinion…Internal linking helps those other pages in your site get indexed and gain juice to help the sites juice flow well internally….which intern makes your sites pages more powerful because they have more links to them……..Because if you aren't linking to your own pages in your own site then why would Google think they're great pages unless you link to them as well in your own site…
Remember, PageRank is page-specific, not site-specific. Pages have PageRank; sites don't. The homepage of a particular site could have a PageRank of 7, but that won't matter much if the page your link is on has a PR of 0.
Excellent info. One thing I do for businesses that want to do "in house" link building is setup a wordpress blog that the in house linkers use. On this blog, every link they get from any source is posted on the blog. Every posting creates a ping and sends the spiders. It works very well.
Great Advice Jon! It's the second time I've heard that tactic. The folks from stompernet also mentioned it in one of their smarts videos.
Another service that can be used is onlywire.com They have a bookmark link that stays in your toolbar that makes this process very easy.
A question that has been bothering me about using social bookmarks, how do you track them?
Eddy
thanks for sharing the information.
"This is easy: just go to a site like SocialMarker.com and get a few links to each page from social bookmarking sites."
Um… could you please elaborate a little on this? Just how do we know where all the Social BM pages are that contain our links that we want google to find?
Cheers
-Brian
Jonathan,
Your site is the one of very few, I always read each day, you have made me more money with your free tips and the use of your Instant Article Wizard than any other software I use, with the exception of my special "backlink spider software".
My secret backlink software, is very similar to yours,. only it allows me to do this to as many sites as I want. Slow drip, drip of one way in back links 10 to 15 a day, to high 5/6 & 7 PR sites is brilliant and it does work, it is all automatic, set it and forget it.
I have a new site published in October of last year that is top 10 Google with NO advertising on terms like library poster, and library banner, tough terms to rank top 10 on. The owner of this site which I created has a large offer for purchase of the rights to the site and images. The site is bibliobanners.com - this is a niche site, do target niches, it works! All of my sites are niche sites, so use affiliate sofware that can find those niches and use Jonathan's tips to make it rock!
So, believe me, as a web developer with ten years experience, Jonathan, really knows his stuff and tells it like it is. Listen, apply what he tells you, use his backlinks program and be rewarded!
Jennie Heckel "ladyofthewebs"
First, Jon I like the new look of the blog. I haven't been in a few days and it looks nice.
Second, thanks for this info. I still like using my software to submit to each directory one at a time or using my list of directories to submit to one at a time.
I did like your post about the social bookmarking sites but I ended up liking PostToaster.com better.
And lastly, how is it you get me to click on the link every single time to read your blog? I hate that with a passion but just realized every time you send an email I click on that link to read what you have to say. I don't do it with anyone else. I always talk back to the computer and say, if you wanted me to read it you would have put it in the email. Delete and next. But with you Jon, I click. Kudos.
Rhonda Morin
Love the advice Jon. I have certainly avoided the mass submission tools, but am always looking for ways to increase the number of inbound links to my site. I will have to try and implement some of this on my own site.
This is a problem that really gets to everyone. Few people realize just how difficult and disheartening it is to get their websites seen. Never mind that it is constant boring work and many give up halfway.
Iwill try social and see what happens
Thanks
I've been using Article Marketing to attempt to drive traffic to my blog, where I hope to use affiliate links and Adsense to earn some passive income. A lot of people have been singing the praises of using social bookmarking sites to gain traffic. My question is, is it really necessary to join all the dozens of bookmarking sites in order to submit your site/articles?
I've joined enough services already that I have difficulty keeping my inbox clean. I don't really want to have to wade through another 40-50 emails every day.
What are the best directories to submit to? What do you use for software, if you do, to submit?
Hi Jon,
Nice post from you… i liked the suggestion and would use socialmarker.
Pankaj
NB: why did you remove your pic from the site… it gave a very personal feeling about the site
Another really sound and useful tip! Thank you, Jonathan.
Thanks!
I was aware of this problem for quite some time, I didn't use the softtware but I was still stuck with zero pagerank and I had no idea how to solve it. You gave me some great ideas!
As a Article Underground member I posted original stuff and I had targeted links only from people with related content.I used PR5 blogs to submit my articles plus ezinearticles and GOarticles. For a while I had PR4 and then after last Google change I lost all of it.I don't understand why because it is not old material or bad linking.Traffic also went down. I don't know what is the problem. It is 1 year old site with about 200 pages.I will try this kind of linking and see what happens.
Thank you Jon
Ok. This is Great Advice and thank you Jon. But the Question remains! How many links to Directories can you promote in a single day? Time is valuable and it just never there is enough. I think we must concentrate to few directories e.t.c with high pagerank and ignore all the others.
Thank for the tips. I used the mass submission before without a good result.
Jon,
Thanks for the insight on SocialMarker.com. I will apply tis strategy today! I have noticed many of my deep pages not getting indexed.
I stop using auto submit software. I find by submitting a few now and then manually works just fine for me.
Enjoy your emails as always.
Thanks
You lean everyday. Last time I submited I tried to submit to Live Search, Google and Yahoo seperatly.
Should I point socialmaher to my Index page and affiliate page? Remember I am new to this. Thanks for all your help and direction.
good things you have there..I'll apply it on my web..thx dude…
Very useful suggestions. I started using the social bookmarking sites recently to link to each of the directory pages my site is listed in.
It is time consuming so I have started with the high PR directories and will work my way down to the lower ones.
Keep up the good work.
As usual great advice and one more little tip i can use to increase my traffic.
Jon
Once again extremely useful information.
Ambrose
Hi Jon,
I'm new here. In seo point of view, building strong backlink is a critical part thus it's not easy. I have seen a lot of people use bookmarking as backlink to website.
I don't think it's long term strategic. However it would bring traffics instantly…but i really hate the spams boom in bookmarking everyday.
Thanks your tips.
Interesting idea, maybe someone could make a software that both submits to directories and makes the links to the relevant categories
I have noticed many new directories with free submission don't have the deep categories indexed at all, probably because of low PR and the fact the the page is quite new if they just added categories.
It could still be worth submitting if you have software or a service so you dont have to spend time with it. Some of the directories might become big over the years and you will have some really good links for free.
Simon
Great advice. I have intuitively practiced something similar to this myself with my own small group of sites, but bringing social bookmarking into play via socialmarker.com multiplies the effects many times over.
What about finding other respectable webmasters who also use social bookmarking and exchanging reciprocal bookmark links? i.e. I social bookmark your site if you social bookmark mine? I can get through all 31 sites on social marker in about 10-15 mins. Does anyone want to buddy up for some linking? (If they do, email me: social at drug-aware.com).
Great information Jon,
Love your posts
Keep up the good work
Joe
Good tips, Jon.
As they say, "Everything in moderation" and it applies to the number of submissions we should make each day as well.
Hi Jon:
As always - AwEsOmE information… Glad that I am on your mailing list. Have a wonderful day!
You can understand their thinking, otherwise the bigger budget you have the better chances of coming top.
Good Tip.
I use soclal bookmarking sites to promote my sites, however it never occurred to me to use them to promote my links.
Thanks for the advice.
Nice tips John…I agree with Eddy how you track social bookmark sites?
Hey Jon,
Thanks for the great info. I always look forward to reading your emails because they are so packed with great information. Have been doing the social bookmarking now for a little bit and actually went to an automatic system that drips on article a day to one bookmarking site (which is kinda slow) but don't want to get put in that sandbox.
Anyways thanks for the great post!
I made all kinds of link mistakes in the beginning. I linked for the title of my web site and not anchor text. I'm still learning and every bit of information helps. Thank you,
LInda
Though not initially intended I found I have multiplied links very quickly by submitting blogs, comments, articles and bulletins on social sites such as MySpace, YouTube, NowPublic, Yahoo360 etc. I always submit 5 to 10 most days.
Now when I do Google with keywords of stuff I would like to know more about the first page is plastered with links to my own work on all kinds of sites. This is frustrating for more of my own further research but, more important, its a delight to know that other people seeking the same info using the same keywords will find me a few times in the top 10 on Google.
Even more important, stuff I post on social sites is often up on Google within the hour while a new page on my web site might take weeks to be listed. Its a wonderful immediate back door way to get people to your new pages quickly.
Combine this with 3 Way Links, good content, and an aptly chosen market, a site is bound to do well!
Keep the great information coming Jon
As usual Jonathan, an important point well made.
The problem is not just with link directories of course, article directories are every bit as bad - if your article isn't on the front page when the spider visits then forget it, you might as well not have bothered.
However, the main point to be made is probably not to use social media to highlight link directory pages, but to just use the social media directly to provide the links to your sites. I've seen it repeated elsewhere that directories - both link and article - are probably now well past their peak of importance and that the social media sites have taken their place. They're certainly spidered quicker and the links are every bit as long lived.
I used to do a lot with article and link directories but I've now stopped 90%+ of that activity in favour of social media and am very quickly seeing the very positive benefits of the move.
Another great post Jon. Which are the best social sites to post to. I use onlywire and socialmarker.com. Is that enough sites?? Thanks again for the great post.
Steve
Thanks Jon for the illuminating article. Over the last year or so, you've been a source of great quality information for me and this latest tip is one of the best. Before I read your information in "Search Engine Myths Exposed" I never really understood how Google really works. Page rank made a lot more sense to me after reading that and this latest info just adds to my general knowledge on how to get traffic from search results.
Hi Johnathan,
Your blog truthful stuff and appreciate.
For recommendation which directories submitter s/w and service provider you would used??
God bless
That's good advise, since that seems to be a common problem. My solution is to have a unique written article about 400-500 words on my topic with related keywords. I then go to craigslist where I have a (Free) account and type in a title that contains my keyword & and or key-phrase, and then copy the article in the "body" area with a link to my (related) site I want to get spidered. I'm not advertising anything, just "sharing" information, so it's never pulled.
My pages are spidered in a day or less and it gets indexed no problem. Where I do have a problem, and have a tough time figuring out, is even though the page is indexed, when I do a backlink ckeck… There Nothing!? This happens quite a bit, yet other links (back-links) that have been on some other pages of blogs and some other sites, are up and showing in a week or two.
thanks for the info~!Excellent info!
Your suggestion is highly appreciated for first time networkers like myself… oops! Interesting to not that once signing up with propeller you get the added bonus of mynetscape to add various thread feeds if this is what it is called. Thank you Jonathan for all your great tips and look forward to your next.
Amazing Coincidence! Mr. Leger,
I just came to your site from socialmarker.com to see if you have integrated this into your domain. Since this is my first foray into Blogging, and my site was just launched 2 weeks ago, (Using WordPress) I have been relying on you as a Mentor for this adventure.
You Nailed It!
Thanks…
Bean
PS: my first posting- "Kudos" provides a thank you link to your site since you are one of two reasons I went to Wordpress.
I've found that submitting your sitemap to Google also helps to get your site indexed. I've got an 8000+ page site that got fully indexed within 72 hours just by submitting my sitemap
Have you taken telepathy-classes. You almost read my thoughts in your style of writing, and you got many of the points I also make when I discuss SEO with customers.
Well done. A good blog.
Hi Jonathan,
I've always been a believer in every product and information that you've produce and shared with me.
Once again, great information.
Mahalo,
Rusty
New blog design is nice! I didn't notice it before. As for the post I agree. Not only do you need to link from as many sites as you can you also need to link to your links and create a kinda path back to your site.
I had a PR4 site and Google crawled it nearly 1000 times a day. I never seen that before. Unfortunately the hosting was crap so I just let it go. Plus I didn't know if it was a good thing to be crawled so much since the site only had 3 pages of content on it.
Great insightful post Jonathan. I actually have written a software application that does directory submissions and I always get user questions about why aren't my links showing up?
Many times, they haven't waited long enough for their submission to be approved or they don't fill in the form properly - but there are hundreds of directories that get very little Google link love unless you are paying to be on the "featured" section of their sites.
I've noticed some article directory owners asking for help promoting their inner article pages, even you author page. From a selfish standpoint, if you can socialize your author page on article sites, then you will put your links in a better position than 95% of the other authors.
Too few people don't understand that just because you link to it on a site that Google or any other spider crawls doesn't mean that they are obligated to put that page in their index. However, if you give that page some inbound links then you may persuade Google that the page is important to add to their index.
Tony
Won't be long before this method becomes abused and spammers jump all over it - better make the most of it while you can
Good advice… Although keeping track of what links you've got where is difficult unless you've got assistants. Some of us have to work all alone!
A bit of good advice I read recently that I've overlooked myself is not to link back to your home page with either 'index' or 'home' - use a name appropriate, such as 'Property in Spain' and direct to full web address eg… http://www etc
Cheers
Good ideas there. I think the blog posts is a better way and agree that the social media is worth a look. Thanks.
Thanks Jon,
Great advice on how to make all of your hard work count for something.
Could you elaborate on
"This is easy: just go to a site like SocialMarker.com and get a few links to each page from social bookmarking sites."
as to finding the pages, optimum number of links, and most effective sites.
Thanks,
Ted
Automation is nice, but there is always the abuse factor. Even Google seems to have a tough time with quality sites on some searches these days. I'm seeing a lot more garbage results than I have ever seen before.
Looking forward to the day that real quality content hits the top of the charts.
Your blog is a perfect example of quality and should have a high pagerank with the Big G.
Thanks again for more great advice and tips, you've just saved a lot of newbies (and oldies) a lot of money and frustration.
Thanks again for scouting the way ahead for us and cutting through all the crap and hype.
I'm not sure whether doing what you suggest would make much difference, in the grand scheme of things. The time it takes to submit the directory(ies) to social bookmarking sites would be better spent submitting your own site or working on links. One person, in my opinion, is not going to make a jot of difference by bookmarking a directory in order to get it crawled. Sure it may be different if 1000 people did it, but that won't happen.
Hair:
You don't want to bookmark the directory, but the EXACT PAGE where your link appears. That will make a massive difference in Google's ability to find the page that has YOUR link on it.
Good topic, interesting readind
Great piece of advice, I have done this in the past, but was never sure if it really worked, so I never kept up with it. I agree that onlywire is better than social marker, its much quicker and you can just hit your toolbar and in a matter of 2 minutes be done with it.
Brian
That explains why 97% of my directory submissions don't show in SEO Elite Project 1 !!! Problem is, I have submitted to over 200 directories easily ! The ones that have a rather high PR, like directoryvault.com for example, shows in SEO Elite.
Thanks for this info. Hopefully this tip will raise my rankings by next week.
Thanks for all great information. This will help me a lot and save time.
Keep on.
Best Wishes!
I am new to most of this stuff and find it interesting to read and learn from you that are more experiensed.
For the moment it is article writing that are my plauge… any suggestion anyone to release this pain..
Thanks!
Thanks again for an excellent overview of a specific problem and its solution. SEO is obviously something which requires due diligence, a well focused program and constant vigilance.
Does anybody know about All Submitter? It is fully automatic link submitting software, that from time to time has to be charged with updated database files in order to automatically submit your site to thousands of directories with good PR. The number of directories depends on database size and quality.
Software is not free and its databases which need to be frequently updated cost money too.
Jonathan, do you think that this software is also vulnerable to Google Sandbox?
Hi J
Great advice, i can tell you it works, i am getting my sites crawled with that tacic more often, thanks for making the connection.
@Ulla & Social Marketing - Writing is very easy. Re-writing is very hard!
Just start writing down your thoughts as fast as they come. Then edit, rinse & repeat.
Good advice. Many of the sites that are now appearing are almost new with few pages that really offer no value except perhaps a link.
Thanks for clarifying that for me Jonathan. It makes more sense now
QUOTE: "All it takes to make sure your links are seen by Google is to point a few links of your own to the pages that contain the links you want Google to know about."
Here I would suggest that if this refers to reciprocal link. Then the flaw in the plan is ONE-WAY links are worth more to search engines. Put another way, always better to have links to you, that you do not link back to.
Jonny:
It wouldn't be reciprocal. The social bookmarking sites link to the page where the link is to your site. Your site never links back to the page where your link is housed.
Submitting to directories the correct way has always been a mystery to most people. Doing all the hard boring work and then finding little to no results for that time and effort is one reason why people give up.
Your advice helps to clarify things.
Another great post by Jon Leger. Thanks for this information - you have brought up a very good point, which should help a lot of people.
It is a pleasure doing business with you.
Another great post, Jon.
I also agree with the other comments regarding the importance of internally linking the pages of your website. As someone else said, "if you don't think your web pages are worth linking to, why should Google?" (or any other search engine, for that matter).
Nick
Jon, great post.
Any good directories you recommend ? So, it can save our time
The best practice is of course to build links to your website in a regular, steady manner. Trying to rush the process can only put you at risk of getting sanboxed. Patience is the keyword of link building.
Luc
Nice article, newbie on site ranking, I still have to learn much more.
Thanks
I post frequently on social sites and my post is often up on Google within a few days, sometimes within hours. With submissions it used to take months. Posting links deeper into my site apears to be working as well.
Thanks for sharing how Google links to certain sites..
wow…this is a grest info for me!
i think it will b very helpfull for my website or blog…
thx for your good info! keep it up!
Jon,
I do this all the time, and not only to directory links, but for most of the pages that link to me. I stumble them, too - if they have at least some interest - what I'm going to do with this one also
Jonathan:
Thanks for the tip…
It's a waste of time submitting to other directories that
have less than 4 PRs.
We should strive to submit to small selected directories
that have 4 and above PRs.
Good post Jon. A while back I was #2 on Google for a popular keyword and I got sandboxed. Not fun times. I was back on the first page after about three weeks.
Thanks again for another great way to get better rankings. Thou I am a bit confused by how a few of the sites work, I am adding a few every day.
Thanks,
Sean
Jon,
I took the time to write a valuable post to increase traffic because someone asked:
"solar power for homes"
And you didn't post it. why?
It was very informative information to help him|her increase their traffic and others….
This is a good idea. The only thing about it, if you get links in 100 directories, then you have 100 web pages to book mark, like double or triple work. But very solid concept.
Wow, that has never came across my mind before. I have been submitting my site to quite a lot of directories over the last 4 months, yet mine site doesn't appear in Google's search results and I never knew why.
Everytime I read one of your posts, I learn something new.
Thanks!
Lee
When submitting sites to directories you must manually choose the catagory, something that software cannot get right. Most directory owners will delete a site that is miscatagorized or just dumped in the "top" or "root" catagory.
Good tip on bookmarking the page in the directory and about setting up a wordpress blog to put backlinks to the pages. (I wrote that one down!)
A tweek to that would be having the wordpress blog NOT on the site that you were submitting. Have it on a seperate domain. It would make reciprical links with the blog and not your site. The links in the directories would still get found but you wouldn't have a ton of recipricals with website directories.
Brian Ankner (non-guru)
Great help as always Jonathon - this explains why Google just do not recognise my links. Thank you …….. Tony
I follow this strategy especially for article directories. I have started with it for webdirectories and even Social Bookmarking Sites (Bookmark Bookmarking Sites) after the Google SLAP from the November 2007 Google update — where we saw a massive PR drop at article directories and web directories…
I've tried onlywire already, and just for the sake of variety I'll try the SocialMarker.com I'm not sure if I can validate 15 minutes per submission, or is that to set up the first time?
that is very good
Hi Jon,
This is really a quality post. Thanks for sharing.
I have also found that if you set up social book marking sites at different locations and inter link them. Add the site in the links that you want google to find.
Ok, I'll try it.
I even thought about subscribing manually to a couple of web directories every day.
Thanks Jon for all the infos.
Hi there Jonathon. Great advice. put social marker on my site
Thank you
TrudyVan
Jon, does it matter whether we make the bookmarks PUBLIC or PRIVATE ?
Hi Jon ,
Now i understand why so many website visit for your search engine myth website but no one downloads , there is 2 reason for this :
1. Untargeted traffic.
2. Using automated click software.
But imagine there is now more than 1000 impressions but zero downloads?
I should be rich by now.Lol.
Definitely this is good advice and something to take note of.
What a great idea, and I just finished submitting my latest site to a bunch of directories too. Now I'll have to go and onlywire those pages.
information is useful. but social marketing sites members are notorious when it comes to linking & not clickink on other members sites. i have pr2 websites but not getting traffic
i am submitting to directories manually. but not getting traffic
what to do?
Thanks Jonathan, once again.
I can add a similar tip: To make a link from one of your websites to Google's listing of links (might be several pages of search results) to another of your sites generated with link:yoursite.
I cannot document the benefit at the moment, but for some years ago i used that with seemingly fine results to have a better position.
One of the limitations at the moment is that Goole isn't displaying all the sites that link to your site, e.g. the search result for link:{snip} is only showing a very small part of all the incoming links I know there is to {snip: no personal url please}.
But you can try it - it is an easy thing.
Soren
Denmark
Thanks so much Jonathan.
I believe I was told similar things before, not exactly as neat and straightforward you'd explained in this nice post.
Now, I understand that I'd shot myself in the foot several times in link building efforts. Okay, I am off to start making some corrections and doing things better.
Please Jon, we need more of advices like this one
Thank you Jon for a great post!
I don't get to do submissions often but it works. I use a free semi-automatic submission tool to submit only to a few high ranking sites.
It does take a while before it get traffic though. One thing I must say - it works to promote your published article page.
Yes , how much is the traffic is not important but the important thing is how targeted the traffic is.
Thanks for your explanation.
Hi Jonathan, great advice, as usual. My problem is knowing which social bookmarking sites use the rel="nofollow" tag, as it's a waste of time to post to those that do if your main reason for posting is to get some link love from Google. Is there any way you could give us a list of bookmarking sites that are "dofollow"?
Regards,
Sharon Bray-McPherson
Thanks everyone. Everything that all of you share is a gold mine for me. To learn and not need to do a lot of mistakes in the marketing process.
But I still feel a bit confused about article v.s social marketing?
Jon, Thanks for your tips.
Great advice.
Thanks for the information. I am glad I am on your email list which notified me on this topic.
Terrific article, thanks for the advice. I am definitely going to try this and may even set up a blog just for that purpose.
I'll definitely be coming back to scan your blog from time to time.
Hi Johnathan,
Great article, like usuall. Would using the directory submission service like the one on the Warrior forum, I think they are up to 400+ submisssions get you in the sandbox.
Terry
Terry:
I'm not familiar with the service at the WF, but it really depends on whether or not they will do the submission over a period of time (say 60 days for 400, or about 6-7 per day). If they will do that, then it should be fine. If not, it could get you sandboxed.
Jon
I like the idea of socialmarker.com. It forces you to do the submission to those social bookmark sites because of the sequence incoporated on the site.
Yes, mass submission with software does not work. Unless that software does intelligently submit the stories on interval as if it done by human.
Hi Jonathan,
I am pleased that you put your picture back on the site! This provides a warmth that cannot be measured.
It just didn't feel the same without it…
Best to you!
Bean
SEM Dude!!!
Yes, nice picture Jon
I just bought 'Article Marketing Domination' because you recommended it and I am happy I did. Part about EzineArticle is priceless.
Thank you
K
This may be off topic.
I tried Fast Blog Finder based on an email that you sent out.
I was unhappy with it on 2 grounds. For a keyword like computer or computer help it came back with 46 useless blogs out of 50. The remaining 4 blogs had nothing to do with the keyword at all.
Please advise
so u are saying that the more pr rank is better to submit my blog than lower pr rank???
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for the very wonderful tips.
I knew about the problem but did not have a clue to solve it. Now I do, thanks for your sharing.
Cheers,
Keith.
Jonathan,
Your blog is addictive! I love how you analyze the problem thoroughly and then come up with a great solution. I'm not sure I would have thought to bookmark the pages in a directory. I'm sure most people aren't doing it either, so it's a good way to stand out.
When you use a tool like artemis pro, you write several versions of a given piece which then is submitted, making many more articles and eliminating the redundant content problem. It would be very simple to make a summary of the article and post it to social networks with links to the larger articles.
"(say 60 days for 400, or about 6-7 per day). If they will do that, then it should be fine. If not, it could get you sandboxed"
I am not sure about this…Even if you submit to all of them during one session they will approve you (if they approve you at all) slowly over time! Its more a backlink trickle rather than an avalanche…
A lot of you are missing the point…saying that mass-submitting slowly doesn't harm you. In fact, it probably doesn't if done slowly…but you are not getting any relevent credit for those links and 99.999% of them will NEVER be seen by anyone looking for what you have to offer.
Also, spinners or even paragraph rotators (or whatever they're called these days" don't submit duplicate content, but they DO spit out really useless articles that are worthless anyway, because they either won't get accepted or nobody will bother clicking through to your site. If you are thinking about the backlinks, see previous paragraph.
It's been proven over and over again. If you want long-term results, write the articles yourself (or have them written) and submit original, quality, well-written content. This is the only way to have the best of all worlds.
Article marketing isn't a game and cannot be used as a get rich quick tactic. It's more of a get rich over a few weeks or months and STAY rich for the rest of your life. It is making a huge comeback and is no longer something to be toyed around with…you will simply be wasting your time.
Allen Graves
Allen - I so much agree - although I wished for a quick fix to my purse there is not much you can do to better on original content.
Yet, the importance of promotion of original articles even goes beyond that - I think.
I am baffled as to what happened this morning. I must have done something right. May be I did something right writing original content, or may be it's having submitted about 3 articles to about 30 article submission sites. I just don't know.
What I do know - I have seen my adsense income gone down with about 95% after removing a script I added without using the "google safe" settings.
Ok, then I thought - Gert, just concentrate on what you know works - for now anyway…
And as I said it works - it is just me that don't get the time… OK, here goes…
I have been averaging about $8 to $12 a week from one of my adsense sites that I used this script on.
That all changed from the moment I took the script down. And google also dropped me from the search results.
Ok, now I make about $2 a week from this one site and last week I did something right… I just don't know what!
I know that on the 25th I made a comment - look down the page…
and maybe I have submitted an article around that time as well - well I just don't remember - But one thing is for sure - website promotion is the key to success!
I logged into my adsense and I saw that that specific site made me $20 for the week coming from traffic I I still trying to figure out where it came from.
Thank you Jon for this blog you're keeping - I have only a few internet marketers I look up to - and you are worth your weight in gold - thank you for all the free tools and resources one get when signing up at your blog's newsletter.
Great stuff.
If things keep up as it did around the 25th I suspect I have to just keep going! Soon I will be able to join 3waylinks.net and increase my backlinks to my content sites even more.
Helpful about linking using social networking sites. Just need to mention that when using SocialMarker.com people need to set up memberships first, otherwise don't work. Have got some some good mileage out of digg and propeller since reading this blog.
Been marketing recently released website conversion product and the SEO thing is really good when you begin to implement the strategy outlined in the blog Jon.
Geoff Slingsby
good post Jon,thanks for the information.
Great tip. Just want to share a link building tutorial that will make a change on your business. 30 Minute Backlinks is a fast and effective and easy to learn.
If you help your friends they will help you :). I believe that helping others help yourself will get you farther than just helping yourself.
Glad i came here today and read this post as i have been on a directory submission campaign as of late. One thing i noticed after reading this post is that there sure is quie a few directories that use the dirty tricks you were talking about, even some paid ones i found!!!! THis sure saved me alot of time and wasted effort thanks John!!