Archive for July, 2011
Getting Links from Article Directories
Part of the process of improving the overall authority of your main, money making website is to use search engine optimization tactics such as link building to achieve greater site authority as well as better SERP rankings in the main search engine Google. This is where the bulk of your money making traffic is going to come from, so you need to put most of your energy into promoting your site in this way.
One of the better ways of getting your own links to your site is by using article directories to post your articles to that contain a link back to your site. Unfortunately, while this method was very good for a number of years, recent algorithm changes to the Google indexing process has devalued links coming from article directories. But that does not necessarily mean that these directories are completely useless.
What they can be used for is to boost a site’s link profile by using what are sometimes called “crappy links”. These are links that have little value for direct keyword ranking, but they do help by bulking out the percentage of links that don’t directly anchor on keywords, thereby increasing the variety of a site’s link profile. This is still important for avoiding sandboxing or indexing penalties that come from obtaining too many links with keyword anchors.
So don’t be too selective of what you use as links when blasting your spun articles around all the places that you can find in this article directory list as well as others. use anchors like “click here” as well as bare urls to really increase that link profile variety. Also, link to as many deep pages in your site as you can.
You’ll be surprised at how much more value you will be giving to your “real” links that do anchor your keywords that you want to rank for!