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Will a Bidding Directory Give You the Type of Links That You Need?

Several years ago, it was easy to rank well in Google, or any of the other search engines for a wide variety of keywords.  The only thing that you needed to do was to put up a webpage that was optimized for those keywords and then to throw a couple links in its direction.  The problem is that many people began to game the search engines and to abuse this particular method of ranking well for their keywords.  As a result, the search engines, and especially Google began to change the way that they look at links.

There are several different types of links that you can have.  One of the first that was used on the Internet was known as reciprocal linking.  This was a way of exchanging links with another website.  They give you an incoming link from their website and you point to link back to them from the same website.  These were the first type of links to become discredited in Google’s eyes.  That isn’t to say, however, that they are totally useless.  Some people are still able to rank quite well if they use reciprocal linking in relatively small measure.

Three-way linking is one of the newcomers onto the scene although it has been around for a few years now.  This is a way of forming a link triangle where none of the links are actually pointing back to where a link originates from.  Some of the linking patterns that are used become quite complex.  This method of linking works well but there is always the danger of being discovered and having your website totally discredited in the eyes of the search engines.  Anytime you are gaming the search engines in this way you run the risk of being detected.

Other than getting a one-way link to your website, which can be quite difficult as not many people want to give out those links any longer, you need to find a way to position your link on some kind of authority webpage.  One of the only ways that you can do this without running the risk of being accused of cheating is by using a bidding directory.  These directories are fairly simple to understand.  You purchase links on their website in an auction type atmosphere that places your link on their website according to how you rank in the auction. The higher your bid, the better of a link you will receive.

Taking part in a bidding directory is a great way to be able to give your webpages a little bit of weight in the eyes of Google.  It is a part of a good search engine optimization routine, one that can help you to rank for any number of keywords.  If you take the time to make sure that you are positioned well as far as your back links are concerned, you would be surprised with how much organic search engine traffic will actually come your way.

December 29, 2008 Posted by Doug | Links Directory, SEO, Specialty Services, bidding directory, directory, web directory, webmasters | , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Difference between Search Engines and Web Directories

Search Engines:

Search engine spiders or crawls through the internet in search of necessary information. It uses sophisticated program for crawling through various pages that it meets up. After proper analysis of the every single word in all of the pages, they are stored. With the help of an algorithm search engine determines the relevance of the topic when a searcher searches for information. The search engine searches in its databases, and then gives a list of documents, which have relevant words used by the searcher. Search engines list the WebPages only.

Important aspects that help in getting higher ranking for websites in search engines are title, mega tags, and text. If there is an addition of sentence to the website, there will be after effect in ‘search engine ranking’ while re-indexing takes place. Updation of index of most of the search engines is monthly or bi-monthly. Web masters can submit web pages to the search engines as well.

Those algorithms determine search engines use of certain algorithms to choose the first webpage to show amongst the numerous web pages. There is more importance to the page title in search engines and there is greater weightage for that. For getting the webpage noticeable in the search engine and to getter higher ranks, its vital to have well written content and it should contain target keyword in good frequency.

Web Directories:

Human editors than robots, unlike the search engines, carry out compilation of directories. Web directory is more of like phone book, which is there in the web in a complex form. Most of the web directories are human edited, and the addition of links of website to it is dependent on the review of the editors. They do the categorization of the links as well. For organization of the database, directories have a tree structure rooted to some hierarchy. Web directories list the links of the whole website. There are main categories as well as sub categories in web directories.

Only legitimate companies’ website links gets added the web directories, ensuring the non-presence of spams. There is submission fee for addition of links in many web directories. Inclusion of the website links are based on criteria like relevance of the link relative to the categories in directory, accuracy, scope, audience, as well as coverage. Free web directories, paid web directories are the main two types of web directories. Then there are bidding based web directories, link exchange based web directories as well as hybrid web directories. There are specialized web directories, for example, web hosting web directories, web design directories, business web directories so on.

The changes made on the websites will not affect their rankings in web directory, except when there is drastic change. Web directories are useful while looking for available content based on the required topic, and due to good organizational structure directories can save time for research. Web directories can help in increasing the website traffic much better than search engines if you go for paid submissions, or bidding based submissions.

December 29, 2008 Posted by Doug | Articles, Links Directory, SEO, directory, web directory, webmasters | , , , , , , | 1 Comment