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Originally Posted by Steve W
Thanks for the info David,
I'll look into the Yahoo Directory and visit the marketing forum as you suggest.
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They've got a decently high ranking directory, so that can get you a lot of spidering traffic, but then just about any directory will get you some spidering. The key is quantity, Yahoo just happens to be quality. Oh, and Yahoo admits at SES conferences that they set a flag when your site is manually reviewed for inclusion into their directory if it is considered quality or not. Not doesn't bring a penalty, but quality means you get a bit of a bonus in the SERPs in their engine. They do randomly inspect sites with lots of content according to their reps, but the only way to guarantee a human view is paying the money.
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Originally Posted by Steve W
Google is of course high on the agenda but we have PR 0 despite what I consider a decent amount of honest content (although there's still a bit more to add). I've heard about the 'Google sandbox effect' but not sure what to make of it, and I've read the importance of IBL's to Google many times, but not sure how to go about getting good IBL's - I'm looking through this site for information, any help would be great. |
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PR is only updated every 3 months or more. A site launched July 3rd can't possibly have
PR yet.
PR is based entirely on incoming links and has nothing to do with content. Submitting to lots of directories and asking related non-competing sites for links is the best way to start. Eventually, you'll have links occurring naturally (but you need to get that jump started).
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Originally Posted by Steve W
We also don't appear on MSN or Ask Jeeves yet, is it only a matter of time (the site was launched July 3rd) or is there something I need to do? Neither site appears to have a free submit, and I was told submitting a site loses rank anyway (??true/false??)
Cheers,
Steve
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False. Submitting doesn't hurt, but it also doesn't help a whole lot either. It does get the spiders to at least know your site exists. Links are still the best way to be included... the more the better.
If you want to submit to MSN (seemed to help a lot for our sites), the form is
here.
Brian.