Hi guys,

I am new in the field of seo. I have a website related to travel and tourism. As a start, i have decided to submit it to a lot of submissions site. Do you think that this will increase the traffic to my site.

Suggestions welcome!!

Not alone. The quality and relevancy of the pages of most directories is way to low. To many outgoing links, and to little quality content of relevance. You would be better off setting up a blog, and starting to blog about your site, and then point the breadcrumb links, as well as other links, to relevant pages on your business domain.

Of cause you shouldn't rule them out entirely, just restrict their use to the free ones, and then focus on other link building strategies, such as commenting on blogs, and posting on travel/tourism related forums.

The true gem of SEO is the anchor text of your breadcrumb links, navigation links, and especially that of incoming links. You can't always control the anchor text fully to your liking on directories, but you usually can on forums and blogs. Just make sure that they are dofollow, before you spend time posting.


The site structure is also important, I.e. Correct usage of headings, and of cause the quality of your content.

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You are better off building quality travel related content. Something that will compell people to link to it. Directory links alone will not make a site rank well.

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Getting listed on some high pr directories will help your site rank well. If you have a budget, try Yahoo directory. If not, just pray and submit your site to DMOZ.

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Directories are not nearly as important as they used to be. Find a few reputable ones but don't waste your time, effort or money submitting to hundreds of random directories.

Reach out to other sites within your niche and consider link exchanges, which is more valuable than link directories but also not as effective as it used to.

Create good content that people link to on their own, one way links from other reputable sites are the most valuable.

Use article marketing to distribute useful articles related to your website and niche, and place important keywords in the link text back to your site.

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Getting Quality BL is good for site ranking... give some PR and also some push in SERP no doubt.. But relevancy and quality of neighborhood is very important.. Concentrate on quality not on quantity

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Are you referring to directory and article submissions? Doing these wouldn't be enough!.. You have to participate in the other strategies as well like blog commenting, forum posting like what you are doing now, link exchange (relevant sites with high PR is good), classified ads, press release and social bookmarking..

Nope.. honestly there is no particular issue if directory submission
really gives traffic but based on my experienced.. this off page
technique only made your new site indexed faster..

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Directory submission is not giving much results as they were. Try to concentrate more on articles and related blogs. Commenting on niche relevant blogs will helps a lot and also have your own blog and keep posting fresh content over there. These things will help you better in getting traffic as well as pr.

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What he said...

no single point of failure should be depended on for success.. look at all the Enron investments.. they worked out great for a while... until the company went under.

Same with SEO - if suddenly article submissions were removed from the relevancy of the Google (or other search engine) algorithm, you'd be hosed...

Also, because there are hundereds of factors in a ranking algorithm, targeting only one will only get you so far.

Create a plan that diversifies your traffic. Have a blog. Comment on Blogs. Participate in forums. Create a goal of so many comments/postings a day. stick to plan. repeat daily.

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Build more content and get links to it, that will be much better for you in the long run than mass submissions.

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Yes,Linking on directories will have your anchor text of your links but there are too many outbound links per page which doesn't bring any link power for the seo.

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You need to spend the pain staking hours of networking. Find business to business directories, view and add members, social groups the same thing. Help out in forums leaving a footprint to your site. Link exchange with relevant sites. Think of it this way, you are handing out a business card every time you leave your web address link. The more you hand out the more people know. It is that simple, find search for places to leave your business card!!

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It depends on the type of cubmission sites that you are using if it is just directories then you will find that you will only get so far for the best results you need a comprehensive link building campaign!

I think one of the most effective ways of link building is to look where your competitor have links and try as much as you can put your links there

you can use backlink checkers or seo quake to see

also focus on directories website from certain countries if you are interested in traffic from certain locations

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I am also new to SEO, and I honestly know very little about this. Thank you for your tips...

Yes...that's one of many ways to drive more traffic to your site. There are many other ways. For example, you have to do "blogwalking". Visit people's blog as many as possible and leave your comment and the url of your blog there. But remember, there are two types of blog. They are dofollow blogs and nofollow blogs. If you leave your comments in dofollow blog, you can also increase your pagerank. Good Luck!

There is nothing wrong in reading and commenting nofollow blogs.

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You're right, but it can not increase your PR even it can increase your traffic. Why it can't increase your PR? Because your link / comment at nofollow blog will not be followed by the spider of G (G is Google). So.. commenting at dofollow blog is better.

How to check a blog whether dofollow or no follow? If you use Mozilla Firefox as your browser, just install a plugin named NoFollow Plugin. You can search it in G by typing this phrase "NoFollow Plugin for Firefox"

Thanks..

Content is king, and link building is the queen! In order to make babies, which are great SERPs, you need to combine the two lovers....

Remember, slow and steady wins the race, also Rome was not built in one day!

How can increase traffic for website?

You can increase traffic for a website by submitting your link to high traffic site. Make sure to check the alexa traffic of a site

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Did you try seobook.com? that's a very good resource to learn basic and advance techniques of all SEO jobs.

Hope helps.

Relevent blog commenting is more better than directory submission

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Swapping links is the best way, If you need travel links pm me for exchange

Some great advice in this thread! A quality website which is great to use and which gives people a reason to naturally talk and link to it is always the greatest way to get links! Give something away for free (such as content, tools, images, anything) to get people linking to your site and coming back.

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You can post links at lonelyplanet website (PR eight) to your website. You should try to find another websites, forums with travel niche, with dofollow and signature to your site.

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Isn't Yahoo! directory a paid link? which is not so good for your Google rankings?

..... And also, I've added my both sites to Dmoz (good sites, no spamming or other dirty illegal stuff) and haven't seen them in there yet. It's been like 2 years since I submitted them.
You can do it, but don't expect to be added quickly if you don't pay them...

“Content is king ", everyone says. However, content is useless if it doesn’t get read. For a beginner like me, the best thing you can do is to combine great content with good link building methods, spend your link building efforts on methods that give High Quality back links since link building is not about quantity...

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you mean directory submissions?
if you are doing free submissions then i seriously doubt you will gain anything out of it

That's what everyone of us want.
Good content combined with links gives effective TRAFFIC.

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Build quality content that people link to and make it easy for the search engines to find.

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what about guest posting? does anyone here tried it? does it really work for linkbuilding? Im thinking of giving it a try...

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What do you mean by "Quest Posting" ? Maybe you meant blog commenting.
Well if this is the case, then I would suggest not to spam. Your comment must add quality or information to the blog. Do not just put "Thank you for the nice post!" or "Great Post!".
Also look at the previous comments on the blog it is a dofollow or a nofollow. There are tools which could easily help you identify this. I personally use Quick Search Status.
Good Luck!

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He means "Guest" posting, on guestbooks, blogs, interactive sites, ect.

It works getting traffic, and if that particular pages gains ranking, it gains link juice.

You want to put up quality posts with keywords matching the title to help it gain PR.

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i have some information in related to Link Exchange we are dealing with web design and web development so i am looking for that kind of website those are niche

directories for traffic? are there still people using directories to search for a site?

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well, submit in high PR and good directory as well as niche directory, regional and local directory also,

which helps you alot to get good traffic

Unfortunately, directories show up well in search engines and can still drive traffic to your site.

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only directory i have seen show up in SERPs are

1. DMOZ - very few terms
2. Social Bookmarking sites

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Type in (any term) [city] [state]

ex. dish network van nuys ca

Every SERP is a directory - either google, or a directory made on on site

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only 'real' directory is superpages

directory as you can submit your URL to a site that has other URLs there

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I disagree with you NCSEO, however I can see where you're coming from.

Input from any others?

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you're speaking about a different type of directory


the poster was asking about submitting his URL to a directory...not creating a directory for city/state

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Directory = Directory


My point is directories are still alive and everywhere, though they may have changed.

Don't worry, they still need to be SEO'd to come up in search results.

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Stay on topic

Everyone is writing about SUBMITTING URLS to a URL directory not creating one or having a directory on your site for city/state.

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