Unlike search engines who use programs and scripts to scan the Internet for all public websites, directories use human editors and user contributions to build a quality index.

Submitting your website to top directories is a very important step in improving your search engine rankings and winning free organic traffic. Why? Because directories often carry a high PageRank (search engine’s way of identifying the importance of a site) and having a link to your website from a top directory, will carry-over a portion of the PageRank to your site.

The task of submitting your site to directories is often a manual labor-intensive process, requiring you to go through several steps per each directory you are submitting to. Click an email verification link, provide more information about your website etc. For this reason, a misconception was created that it is sufficient to submit to the top 5 or 10 directories and be done with it.

Not true!

Submitting your site to 2,000 quality directories is a much better approach. While some links will be discounted (not counted in the eyes of the search engines) a lot of links will be counted and your site is going to enjoy better rankings, more back-links and overall more organic free traffic.

When submitting to directories, make sure you use a qualified Internet Marketing company, such as SoftwareProjects, to ensure your links are not being submitted to “link farms”, black-listed directories or directories with a PageRank of zero. Make sure you receive a full report outlining all submissions as well as the PageRank of the directory page where your link lives.

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Below is a list of top 50 directories you should consider:

* 1. http://www.dmoz.org – Pagerank: 9
* 2. http://www.botw.org – Pagerank: 7
* 3. http://dir.yahoo.com – Pagerank: 9
* 4. http://www.worldhot.com – Pagerank: 7
* 5. http://www.business.com – Pagerank: 7
* 6. http://www.cyber-find.net – Pagerank: 6
* 7. http://www.corporatelistings.net – Pagerank: 6
* 8. http://sbd.bcentral.com – Pagerank: 7
* 9. http://www.bizoola.com – Pagerank: 6
* 10. http://www.zunchdirectory.com – Pagerank: 6
* 11. http://www.spheri.com/d – Pagerank: 6
* 12. http://www.dramba.com – Pagerank: 6
* 13. http://www.directorydelux.com – Pagerank: 6
* 14. http://www.dirdir.info – Pagerank: 5
* 15. http://www.cyborginfo.com – Pagerank: 5
* 16. http://www.skoobe.biz – Pagerank: 5
* 17. http://directory-free.com – Pagerank: 5
* 18. http://www.abcsubmission.com – Pagerank: 5
* 19. http://www.abizdirectory.com – Pagerank: 5
* 20. http://www.dir-submission.com – Pagerank: 5
* 21. http://www.directorystorm.com – Pagerank: 5
* 22. http://directory.pageindex.info – Pagerank: 5
* 23. http://www.seekzap.com – Pagerank: 5
* 24. http://www.directorybin.com – Pagerank: 5
* 25. http://www.middsailing.org – Pagerank: 5
* 26. http://www.777media.com – Pagerank: 5
* 27. http://www.nterface.net – Pagerank: 5
* 28. http://www.brightlightdarkroom.com – Pagerank: 5
* 29. http://www.burtonian.com – Pagerank: 5
* 30. http://www.submission4u.com – Pagerank: 5
* 31. http://www.jamjaa.com – Pagerank: 5
* 32. http://www.directoryforce.com – Pagerank: 5
* 33. http://www.theseoking.com – Pagerank: 5
* 34. http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com – Pagerank: 5
* 35. http://www.uudir.com – Pagerank: 5
* 36. http://www.pegasusdirectory.com – Pagerank: 5
* 37. http://www.findgoodsites.com – Pagerank: 5
* 38. http://www.downunderindex.com – Pagerank: 5
* 39. http://directory.portalit.net – Pagerank: 5
* 40. http://www.directorygold.com – Pagerank: 5
* 41. http://www.submiturlhere.com – Pagerank: 5
* 42. http://www.evenseek.com – Pagerank: 5
* 43. http://www.addsite-submitfree.com – Pagerank: 5
* 44. http://www.isins.com – Pagerank: 5
* 45. http://www.addurl-free.com – Pagerank: 5
* 46. http://www.paranabis.com – Pagerank: 4
* 47. http://www.1americamall.com – Pagerank: 4
* 48. http://www.webportalcentral.com/directory – Pagerank: 4
* 49. http://www.isearchlink.com – Pagerank: 4
* 50. http://www.poozl.com – Pagerank: 4

Adrian Singer is an Internet Consultant with http://www.softwareprojects.com

What is Link Popularity?

Link Popularity means how much you are known on the internet which can be measured how many sites or web pages linked to you. Link popularity is a measure of both the quantity and quality of sites that link to your site.

What is PageRank?
PageRank is measure tool of important of web page. Google PageRank can be defined as numeric tool from 1 to 10 to measure the importance of webpage. Google calculate the PageRank on the basis of quality of inbound links. Google PageRank is one of the factors for determining the search engine ranking of web page.

Search Engine’s algorithm is always changing to find artificial techniques to inflate link popularity to get higher search engine ranking. Natural link building strategies involve getting inbound links from all type of relevant sites ranging from PageRank 0-10. Generally link buyer’s or link builder ask for a link from higher PageRank to get quick link popularity which is unnatural. If you have get 100 links and got 90 inbound links from PageRank 3-4 it will clearly indicate that some link buying has been done or some non ethical techniques has been used by a website to create inbound links.

Therefore you must get at least 25% inbound links from relevant webpage have PR zero to make your link building strategies more natural. In our opinion relevance of site giving inbound link is more important than PageRank. Getting inbound links from PageRank 0 is important factor of natural link building or link popularity strategies and must not be ignored.

About the Author

The Article is written by Submit Shop Team experts in Advanced Link Building Strategies and link development strategies. Visit http://www.submitshop.com for more information.

Well the answer is not as simple as a yes or no, as it can be both, and it can be neither! “What?” I hear you ask!

Their are two ways of submitting articles, the incorrect way, which will result in Google giving you a few negative points, and the right way which can mean many bonus Google points. Although they keep messing about with the algorithms for Pagerank and search results, the most essential thing that does continue is that you have enough back links to your website, preferably one-way.

Gone are the days when any kind of links would do in order to assist towards a Google Pagerank, due to a change around the inception of 2007, the only links likely to assist you obtain greater search placing and Pagerank are websites that have a Pagerank of FOUR or higher. So those of us who spent the last few years building up any links to our sites, have now found that Google is no longer interested. This is not all bad news, as they still benefit with Yahoo, Lycos, etc. So do not ignore them completely, but it is best to concentrate on those with a 4+ Pagerank.

One thing the majority of people forget when submitting an article is that Google will ignore duplicates. So if you add your article to a Pagerank 2, and a Pagerank 4 free submission site, and they are exactly the same, if Google picks up the initial one, you will only get the Pagerank 2 pointing to you by Google, as I mentioned earlier, this is pretty worthless now.

The only way of ensuring each submission to different article sites actually counts as helping your own Pagerank is to change the text in your article for each submission. This can be as simple as just changing synonyms or you can go as far as rearranging paragraphs. A mixture of a few things is usually best, and just changing the odd word will not work either. This can be a laborious thing to do manually; luckily software is out there to aid you, while most are much better than others.

So by submitting your articles to Pagerank 4+ sites only, and changing a reasonable number of words, while keeping the same meaning, each submission should count in most way towards your Pagerank.

One last thing with article submissions is that by submitting masses of different subject articles to the same website, this does not assist your Pagerank, as only one link will count on Google. However, the pay off this does for you is that your site is more likely to pay off from these articles being republished across the Internet, and a small number of these will be from sites with a good ranking.

Spending hours submitting articles may be a complete waste of your time, and those who review the articles if you ignore the data above.

Keith Driscoll is the owner of Search ‘n’ Find Articles. Please feel free to use our service to submit articles.

The second most important criteria is the size and popularity of the site where you submit your articles. If you submit an article to a site that is frequented by very few people, then very few people will see your article. By submitting to larger, more important sites, your article has an opportunity to be viewed by many more readers. I use Google’s PageRank and Alexa to rank my submission sites.

Google’s PageRank measures the relative importance of a site on a scale from 0 – 10. Ten is the most important site and zero is the least important. When seeking out submission sites, look for those with the highest Google PageRank.

Alexa measures the relative size of a site. If a site has an Alexa rating of 10,000, that means that there are 10,000 larger sites on the Internet. (Keep in mind that there are over 2 billion sites on the Internet now.) The lower the Alexa rating, the bigger the site. Seek out those sites with relatively low Alexa ratings.

Following is a list of ten sites along with their Google PageRank and Alexa ratings. Please keep in mind that these ratings change regularly. FYI- I submit each of my articles to about 60 sites.

EzineArticles.com
Google PageRank 6
Alexa 499

GoArticles.com
Google PageRank 4
Alexa 3,592

ArticleDashboard.com
Google PageRank 6
Alexa 5,255

SearchWarp.com
Google PageRank 5
Alexa 6,032

ArticlesBase.com
Google PageRank 4
Alexa 8,735

iSnare.com
Google PageRank 6
Alexa 8,791

SelfGrowth.com
Google PageRank 6
Alexa 9,653

Buzzle.com
Google PageRank 6
Alexa 9,698

ArticleCity.com
Google PageRank 6
Alexa 11,526

IdeaMarketers.com
Google PageRank 4
Alexa 13,121

ArticleAlley.com
Google PageRank 5
Alexa 14,259

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BRIEF INTRO. PageRank is google’s valuation of your website. Your pagerank comes pegged on a scale from 0 to 10.

Uh- okay… so what?

Let’s make it so easy that even your cat would mewl.

Think of Pagerank like real estate pricing. The higher your site ranks on that scale, the more valuable it is in Google’s eyes. You, the webmaster, enjoy explosive benefits the higher your pagerank: your site gets indexed more often, you appear in the top ten placements and people will kill each other to advertise their site on yours. To the tune of thousands of greenbacks a month.

Bottomline: websites of considerable persuasion and influence boast high pagerank.

If your site has less than a Pagerank 4, you’re s nobody. Pagerank 5 means you’re a rising hotshot. Folks would pay $30 a month to place a link on your site. Pagerank 6 means you’re almost a god. Not only would you rank in the top ten search engine rankings for chosen keywords, you’d rake in lotsa moolah from ad revenue.

Are you mewling like a cat yet?

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s hunker down to getting you a Pagerank 7 in 200 days.

CREATING A SITE OF MASSIVE INFLUENCE

1) Raid a few webhosts that allows you to buy domains on cheap. I’d recommend godaddy.com or doteasy.com Purchase at least 40 domains across different C Class IPs. The .info , .mobi and .biz variety go for a dime a dozen. Register them and build up a single page on each one. Fill the pages with quality content. No scraped info or you’ll get deindexed. Your bucks would go down the drain faster than cash at a casino. Hire a ghostwriter if you must.

2) Create backlinks to each of these sites from domains that wield extremely high pagerank. It’s easy to accomplish with Netscape.com and NewsVine.com. Now before you get all excited, understand that this tactic will work if you judiciously pick profitable tags. The tag ‘business’ ranks a whopper of a pagerank 7 at netscape. (http://www.netscape.com/tag/business). Listing your 40 domains under this directory gets a pagerank 7 backlink!

3) Amp the power. List your domains at DMOZ and Relmaxtop.com . You’ll garner at least a Pagerank 4 backlink to each site.

4) Post meaningful comments on one or two blogs listed here: courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/ These blogs have the NoFollow attribute disabled, allowing you to suck in more PR to each of your domains.

5) Post meaningful comments on mattcuts.com, pearsonified.com and scobleizer.com. Google ranks these sites at pagerank 8+. If your sensible comment is approved, you get more rank boosting.

6) Use this string in google search box to find high credibility .edu blogs where you can get quick backlinks from: [[site:.edu inurl:blog "post a comment" -"comments closed" -"you must be logged in" "Your-Key-Word"]] If your link appears on a .edu domain, Google accords your mucho respect. In spades. Ensure you write MEANINGFUL comments on these .edu sites, or I’ll disown you and send the Italian Mafia to kick your arse and sink you in the Ganges.

7) Wait for the next PageRank update. Twiddle your thumbs and get fat on some MacDonalds quarterpounders to pass the time.

Et Voila! After the next update, the Google Toolbar will indicate that ALL your 40 sites have achieved a shiny PageRank 3 or 4. Man, wasn’t that easy?? (FYI, google updates pagerank every three months or so)

9) Now that your sites wield considerable persuasive influence, I want you to create three new domains and have all original 40 sites link to these.

10) Wait for the next pagerank update and BAM! The three new domains now flex a Pagerank 5!. Hallelujah!! But wait. You don’t want a lousy 5. You want at least a seven. So what you do is to create two new domains and have the three pagerank 5s link to that.

11) Wait again. (do you get the pattern here?) Suck on some fries. Get more girlfriends. Take up racing. Then at the next pagerank update, the Google Tool Bar will bring you news that will wet your pants: GOODGRACIOUSGLORIOUSGOD! The two new domains are now Pagerank 6!! Wait. We’re not done yet. I want you to create a new domain. And guess what? I want you to link the two pagerank 6 sites to your new domain.

12) Wait again. Nuninuninu. By now you should have 10 girlfriends and boast a nice paunch from all those quarterpounders. But so what? After the next pagerank update, your new domain should now be a gloriously persuasive Pagerank 7. Ahh. Now you can kick back and relax. Because with this single website, any other website you link to will be transformed into an instant Pagerank 6. Everyone knows that sites these stellar command unbelievable advertising power. So what you do from here… well, it’s up to your imagination.

Disclaimer. Well actually its an apology. I promised you a Pagerank 7 in 200 days? Actually, make it more like 365 days because that’s how long it would take google to go through all those updates. But heck, what’s an extra 165 days between friends?

Fly high and rule the web world with persuasion and influence!

Joseph Plazo is recognized persuasion expert … but can’t persuade his business partners and clients to leave him alone.You simply can’t be persuaded to miss out on his massive library of free Persuasion downloads.

The Google Mantra for MLM Marketing Success

Google’s marketing merit lies in the fact that unlike other search engines, it attempts to answer most of the questions it raises. This interactive dialog between Google and its user and developer communities is conducted through hundreds of Google official blogs, blogs maintained by its senior employees, and through an extremely easy-to-read and powerful help system, which is updated regularly. Type “Google Help” into Google and a world of information will open its doors to you. As a direct marketer, consider taking the time out to read what Google has to say about promoting your website on its search engines. Implement those strategies that you are personally able to implement and ask your design and SEO teams to do the rest.

Using Google PageRank to Generate and Preserve your MLM Business

Google PageRank, a proprietary assessment model which Google uses to rank the overall value of your web pages, is one focus area worthy of consideration. A high PageRank— above a 4— conveys a special message to your MLM marketing customers and those already on your down line that your web pages are not only appreciated by Google, they command Google’s seal of approval. Let us examine what Google itself has to say about PageRank. This will surely help us to customize a realistic PageRank strategy:

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When a user enters a query, our machines search the index for matching pages and return the results we believe are the most relevant to the user. Relevancy is determined by over 200 factors, one of which is the
PageRank for a given page. PageRank is the measure of the importance of a page based on the incoming links from other pages. In simple terms, each back link to a page on your site from another site adds to your site’s PageRank. Not all links are equal: Google works hard to improve the user experience by identifying spam links and other practices that negatively impact search results. The best types of links are those that are given based on the quality of your content. … We have developed our serving infrastructure and breakthrough PageRank™ technology that changed the way searches are conducted…. PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results. PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked
page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.
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Implications for Online Direct Marketing

As an online marketer who has adopted the multi level marketing business model, you should pay attention to the PageRank of each one of your web pages. Aspire for a PageRank of between 4-8 with 10 being the best and 1 being the worst. Remember that PageRank is page-specific as the term itself implies. It is not website specific. To check your Google PageRank, simply download the Google Toolbar by typing “Google Toolbar download” into Google and install it—a simple process that will take less than three minutes. If your web pages have acquired a Google PageRank, a green indicator will welcome you. Hover your mouse pointer for the precise numerical value and adopt every measure possible to spiral this figure upward. These measures include link building, inviting other websites in your niche to link to your web pages, building killer content on your website and inviting bloggers to link to them, posting on forums, discussion lists and blog comment pages to generate traffic and much more. Adopt these tactical as well as strategic initiatives and watch your PageRank soar to unbelievable heights of PageRank success!

Johnny Kim is the President and CEO of Team Manna, a leading MLM distributor of Mannatech health, beauty and 100% natural nutritional products known globally for their high quality and proven healing potential. Visit him at http://team-manna.com and write to him at johnnyjkim@yahoo.com. Just tell him you want to learn more about MLM and Mannatech.

So stop wasting your time and start applying any of these tried and proven techniques in order to be the top ranked page in the internet.

Bipul Kafley is author of this article on Seo.
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SEO requires both artistic skills, as well as a clear scientific mind. It has often been debated whether SEO is an art or a science. The answer however, is not simple – it is a bit of both. They come together to make a perfect recipe for success in the field of SEO.

If you have to succeed in the field of SEO, you will have to carefully plan and execute the project, with the right keywords and relevant key phrases. Identifying the keywords can be carried out with some of the sophisticated software tools that are available today. However, at the same time, you will have to use your instinct and artistic bent of mind to put together the keywords in such a way, that they can acquire the maximum efficiency.

The science part of SEO is reflected in the fact that all major search engines have their own algorithms that help them to rank the various sites. An experienced person in the field of SEO can identify the pattern of the algorithm and implement a technique that is highly efficient.

The results of the SEO should be verifiable, quantifiable and proven as economically viable. If your SEO can make the site attain better visibility, it will convert into better sales. These are the cold hard facts that SEO deals with; hence, SEO and science go hand in hand.

However, the art part of SEO is also undeniable. Since no search engines reveal how their algorithms work, SEO experts need to use their instinct to find out what works best for the site, In addition, since the algorithms constantly keep changing, the professionals need to depend on their own skills and techniques to come up with the best SEO plan.

After all, a SEO strategy can be quickly created to create websites that are based on certain scientific formulas of SEO. But, these sites may not have the personal and human appeal that the visitors may be looking for. Thus, while your site may get a good ranking on the search engine pages, people may not like your website enough.

Thus, SEO needs to be the right mix of art and science, so that you can come up with a website that not only ranks well on the search engines, but also appeals to the senses of your viewers, who are, after all, your potential customers!

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For many a year all people were being advised was that you should be trying to obtain thousands of links pointing to your site. Backward links had been essential in reaching the top five of the search engine results in the early years of the internet but then the secret was let out of the bag. Automated linking software made the task of gaining backward links simple and for a short time certain webmasters made a lot of money, but boy did they cry when their sites were banned. There was outrage on the forums with people slamming search engines such as Google.

The future at least for a short while will be all about deep linking. That is where you have links not only pointing to the homepage of your website but also to its other pages. Lets face it, it is not exactly natural to have all of your links just pointing to one page is it?

Vary the link text to around six different key phrases. Also use a number of ways of obtaining these links, do not just concentrate on writing articles, perhaps add more quality content to your site. One quick thing to mention is that any content on your site should be original and unique content. Duplicate content could well be hit hard in the future, therefore I would just stick to original text if I were you.

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The decision to deep link or not, should be based on the needs of your site and what content is relevant. You will want to deep link to a partictiular page of your site to a web directory, if the category you are linking to is relevant only to that page of the site. That should be the ONLY page linked because it contains the relevelant information the searcher seeks. Once you determine what you want your audience to see what they link to your site. You will be able to better determine if you should deep link or not to deep link. As I said, determine what your needs are. What you want the audience to retrieve first and what your sites represents to the audience you are targeting. Doing this will answer the question to deep linking or not.

If everyone on your site is relevant to the category you are linking in to then linking directly to your home page is a better choice to take. Of course, your home page is an important page to your site, and you do want people to see that when they visit. But if it isn’t relevant to what the searches needs, doing a deep link will make your site more user friendly.

One of the purposes of back linking and submitting your links to a web directory is to bring traffic to your website. As well as to increase your page ranking with the search engines. The most important part of linking is linking to relevant site and the content of the site.

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Submitting your site to directories like eonte will help boost your website’s link strength.