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.

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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.

What are backlinks?

Plain and simple, backlinks are links that point back to your site. They are links you have exchanged with or received from other sites, as well as links placed strategically by you in forum posts, blog posts and comments, and the resource box of submitted articles. The submission of your site to website directories also provides backlinks that are highly favored by search engines.

Ideally these links, especially those placed in your forum signature and resource box of published articles (see my related article “Your Signature – An Internet Marketing Goldmine”), will contain keywords in the text of the link to create “anchor text.” Placing keywords in the text of the link anchors your keyword(s) to your url rather than anchoring “Click here” or your website name to your url. Not only do you have a backlink to your site, you have created a link of higher quality that includes the keywords you are targeting in your overall marketing campaign.

Why do I need backlinks?

The number of quality backlinks linking to a site is one of the main criteria used by Google and other search engines to rank and place websites. This statement, written by David Austin in a Feature Column of the Monthly Essays on Mathematical Topics, sums it up: “The fundamental idea put forth by PageRank’s creators, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, is this: the importance of a page is judged by the number of pages linking to it as well as their importance.”

With this all-powerful statement from the creators of Google, the importance should be clear: you need backlinks to attract the robots that determine the importance of your website. The value of your page, your website, in the eyes of Google’s robot lies in the number and quality of the links that it finds from other sites to yours. As the number of other popular, high-ranking sites find your site worth linking to grows, your popularity goes up along with your position in the search results.

In other words, quality backlinks are needed to entice search engines to stand up and take notice.

Backlinks are also helpful in leading visitors to your site. In this regard, backlinks are much like bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel to find their way back home. When your site is new, the robot will not place your site at the top of the results list immediately no matter how much time and effort went into the design and SEO of your site. Links from other sites that searchers are likely to find could lead them to your site if they look through the links page to find related products that might be available on your site.

In addition, links placed in posts to forums and blogs and the resource box of published articles have the potential of being seen and followed by thousands of visitors every day. If the forums, blogs, and article directories have high page ranks, you have more than just a link for visitors to follow, you have a quality link that will serve to increase your page rank as well as your traffic.

What are quality backlinks?

Quality backlinks are links from websites that have a higher page rank than your site, links from websites that have content or purpose related to your site (also known as relevance), links that include anchored text, and links that are built naturally over time, not a sudden increase in links just for the sake of having a high number of links.

Google has made it very clear that the importance of a site in the eyes of Googlebot is greatly influenced by the number and importance of the pages linking to it. In order to increase your PageRank, your website’s importance in the eyes of search engines, seek out links from higher-ranking sites that have related content, include anchored text in your signature for forum and blog posts as well as your resource box in articles, and let links build naturally over time. These practices will be a valuable part of your overall marketing strategy.

Claudia Pate is the owner of The Anniversary Shop, traditional and modern anniversary gifts, and Common Sense Ebiz, guide to online business opportunities. Learn more about article writing to increase your PageRank with quality backlinks.

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?

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The kind where you start having visions of being able to retire to an island somewhere…

The reality of the matter is to facilitate the secret to amazing SEO accomplishment is no big secret at all. High PR Backlinks do the job each and every time. It’s just a matter of identifying an adequate number of these and spending the time to place your family with your keywords or keyword phrases as commentator text.

The critical thing is to make sure the links are posted in an area where they are Do Follow.

You will hear several myths concerning placing your backlinks which ought to be debunked:

The sheet you publish the link to has to have a High PageRank and not simply the domain itself. If the sites homepage has a high PR, the SEO juice will pass to your site regardless of the PR of the page your link is on.
You can’t rank for keywords which your site doesn’t include sufficient density for. Not really. If this were correct, you wouldn’t notice any YouTube videos ranking for their tags. Just put up an adequate number of your links with anchor text and you will rank!
Your backlinks are required to come from applicable sites or they are worthless. Google knows that links occur haphazardly. It’s adequate that the links are coming from High PR sites. They know that individuals possess varied interests, so they are simply looking in lieu of volume. The benefit you pick up from place relevancy is that individuals exposed to the links are more likely to click.
Sites on the first page of Google all include thousands of inbound links and it will take you years to catch up. Some do enjoy thousands of backlinks, but you don’t have to compete with that. You are simply competing with webpages having the exact same keyword or keyword phrase as anchor text.

If you look for High PR Web 2.0 Community websites you will locate a ton of websites you can publicize your links. You will regularly be placing them in your profile in a section with a heading something like “About Me”. It does take some time to set these profiles up, as you will usually want to upload a profile pic and add particular personal info to escape being banned for link spam. Many of these websites are getting very agressive about deleting link spammers, so be sure to take the few minutes necessary to make your profile look fairly complete.

Pay special attention to the sites which let you produce blog posts. This is a fantastic place to place articles and have no limit to the amount of links in each post. Again this will take some time investment, but the main detail is that these backlinks will last a long time, and so will your Google rankings!

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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.

By inserting this button in your home page or main pages of your website many visitors will know how well your site is performing. This widget can create wonders for your site. Genie rank widget will display your ranking to your website visitors. It is a perfect tool for any internet professional or company to show off their SEO efforts for a given website.

Many people may not know what widget is. Widget is a HTML code that is put on your website to enhance it. Widgets can be written in JavaScript, flash and other scripting languages. One interesting fact about widget is there are various websites that offer free widgets that you can cut and paste in your website. One more advantage is it is a more interactive tool that contains valuable information, is viral and creates more inbound links. Widgets are also known as modules, snippets and plug-ins. Many websites take advantage of widgets to increase their functionality and customizability. Many blogger’s and social networking sites use this kind of widget to make their sites more interesting and fun for their users.

Genie rank widget ranks a site based on these factors:
PageRank: Google gives page rank for every web page of the website. Score is assigned by Google for every web page using a special mathematical algorithm. PageRank is a way Google determines how important web pages are in relation to every other page on the internet.
Reach:Reach measures the number of users who visit a given site.
Popularity: Internet traffic is the web traffic which denotes the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a website.
DMOZ listing: Getting listed in DMOZ directory is very important if you want to get a better ranking from this widget. Getting listed in Dmoz provides two important links – one from DMOZ and other from Google Directory.

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You may already be submitting your web site to directories, requesting reciprocal links, and submitting your articles to e-zine web sites. However, all these tasks are very time consuming and the results are not worth the effort.

This article shares with you some inside knowledge about how you can build quality links successfully with the ease of a few button clicks using SEO Suite 8 boost your web site rankings.

#1. Backward Link Checker

The first step in Link Building is to check how many web sites currently link to your web site, who links to you and what web site title they use to link to your web site. Link building is all about linking to quality sites with similar content to yours to motivate the search engines to classify your site as high quality and increase your ranking.

The Backward Link Checker will provide you with all this information in seconds. You simply select the web site URLs you want to check and the program will generate a list of all of the websites which link to you.

From here, you will be able to analyze your current link status, how many links you have and whether or not web sites who have linked to you are quality links or not.

Once you understand your current situation, it is time to start the actual link building process.

#2. Competitor Link Checker

Generally the way to find quality links is to do a search on Google and find out who is linking to your competitors. To do this, you need to enter the major keywords you want to target in Google and search, which returns a list of web sites that are related to your keywords and are essentially your competitors.

From here you need to perform a link popularity check (use Google “link: www.website-url.com” command) on the top 10 or 20 positioned sites, which shows you who has linked to your competitors. You now have a list of quality potential links who you should contact to establish a linking relationship with.

However, doing it this way (manually) can be an extremely time consuming process, especially if you perform 10 or 20 link popularity checks, and contact the 10 or 20 linking sites, which can take hours.

The Competitor Link Checker allows you to generate a list of your competitors and all the web sites that link to them simply by entering your targeted keywords into the program and clicking the “Get” button. You can simply click on the links listed to review their web site content and decide if you want to establish a link partnership. If so, you can submit your link request within the tool directly, saving you hundreds of hours of work.

#3. Link Directory Creator

Another way to create quality links is to submit your web site to industry related directories. These are directories that specifically focus on listing sites related to a certain industry, eg. Medical, rather than cataloging all sites for all industries.

By submitting your web site to these directories, all the links to your web site will be relevant to your content. Furthermore, most of these directories are already indexed by Google with a higher PageRank which will help increase your sites PageRank immediately and drive traffic to it.

Again this can be a time consuming process if done manually however, the convenience of the Link Directory Creator helps you submit to all directories specific to your industry with one click.

By entering your target keywords into the program, a list of all the link directories relating to your keywords is generated.

Furthermore you can review the content of that directory within the program so you won’t have to waste time opening and connecting to the directory through a separate browser window. To submit your site to the directory it is a matter of selecting the link directory, entering your site details and clicking the “Submit” button. The program will then automatically submit your site.

#4. Internal Link Analysis

Although external link building has a major impact on your site’s ranking so does your “internal” link building, which is all too often forgotten. Too many people try to focus on acquiring links from other web sites, but after spending hours on this linking process their results are still poor. The reason for this is because you don’t have any control on who will link to you.

However, with a simple “internal link structure”, you can easily push your Google PageRank to 3 or 4 which will improve your sites overall ranking. We have used this simple technique to help hundreds of clients achieve a top 20 position for some very competitive keywords as we use this program to deliver our SEO Service .

The Internal Link Analysis feature is just about doing that. All you need to do is to enter your web site’s URL and click the “Start” button. In a few moments, it will return a list of all the pages that have been linked within your site, what text is used for the link, how many links there are and the Page Rank of each link.

This information allows you to quickly know if you are using the correct keywords in your text links, and if your important web pages have enough links pointing to them internally. You need to make sure there are higher Page Ranking pages linking to your important pages as this will increase the overall ranking for your site.

The secret of link building is that you don’t need to create hundreds of links to your site. All you need is 5 to 10 links with a PageRank 4 or higher and a good internal link structure which will give you enough to move your own Page Rank to 4 or 5. Combining this with proper on-page optimization, you should be able to achieve a high ranking for your important keywords easily.

By using the SEO Suite’s Link Building features to follow these simple steps, you should expect to see your web site ranking increase to the top positions quickly.

In next month’s newsletter we will feature part two of this article and share with you more secret link building techniques and the tools that will help you to create more quality links easily.

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