How to Get Traffic from Web and Search Engine Directories

There are many ways on how to get and generate traffic but today we look at web and search engine directories as traffic sources. Web and search engine directories do collect and gather similar web pages on the same topic and content but also help in driving traffic to websites and blogs in one way or the other as seen below;

Click through Rate hence Click through Traffic

When websites and blogs are submitted to directories, these sites are add to the directories’ lists and if someone happens to search through for something about Internet Marketing Company and reads through your website or blog information and it really suites and satisfies him or her, then he/she will visit your website or blog for more than that in the directory hence bringing more traffic.

Indexing the Website or Blog

When websites and blogs are submitted to directories, the web pages are crawled and indexed by the search engines, if the links to the site are found. Those indexed pages will get one’s site more traffic and will be seen will ease if one put a search query on keywords your indexed website or blog that it is targeting and finds your site through these keywords hence driving more traffic to your website or blog.

Increased Search Engine Rankings

One way to boost your rankings in the search engines is by submission of blogs and websites to directories. The directories’ will help in crawling and indexing your web pages by use of search engine spiders and bots or robots as search engines will find a huge number of links and references to your site. This will help to know how prominent and important the page or blog be it the website in defining your search engine rankings. Therefore directories will improve or increase your traffic through rankings in the search engine formula for a targeted keyword.

Web and search engine directories contribute to SEO and are also traffic sources we should not undermine. They do help websites and blogs get indexed by search engines so fast and add more value to one’s link building efforts.

That’s it for now. Feel free to comment add-on and criticize where possible. Thank you.

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How To Improve Google PageRank

Link building is part of Seo and helps on how to improve and increase Google pagerank and search engine rankings of a website by getting quality inbound links or back links.

Improving your Google pagerank depends a lot entirely on quality inbound links through link building efforts as explained below;

1) Anchor text of the inbound links

The text you give the link pointing back to your site or page. Remember the name you give to inbound links from forums, article directories, press releases, community pages must be keyword rich and targeting like Internet Marketing Company. This will help Google to understand the page you are linking to is all about through the name you give your link hence improve pagerank for targeted keyword or keyword phrase

2) Link popularity within the site

When carrying out link building efforts, it’s not all about creating links from outside your website or blog. When crafting or designing web pages even when posting try to create links to the page you are targeting so that Google and other search engines will know how prominent and important your page  to the whole site hence carry more weight in search engines for better pagerank.

3) Create and get many inbound links as possible

When carrying out link building effort s, one should consider and focus on getting many inbound links as possible to one’s website or page. This will help Google and other search engines consider your page important and relevant. Your site or page will be indexed much faster because of this hence improved pagerank (PR).

NB: Remember these inbound links must be from authoritative sites upon that subject or various topics.

4) Build links from bigger, popular and authoritative sites

How popular and authoritative is the site you are linking from. Links from bigger sites are more worthy than links from smaller sites Jim Boykin of Internet Marketing Ninjas explains more; how a site with 50 back links beats your site of 1000 back links. Google and other search engines will consider inbound links from bigger, popular and authoritative sites to index your page whether these back links are fewer than the many from smaller sites for your improved pagerank.

5) Relevance of inbound links to the site

Your link building efforts will cause positive effect on your Google pagerank if and only if you get inbound links to your page that are related to your topic and subject of that niche industry.

6) Relationship between inbound links and linking page

Link building must be carried out in order to create a relationship between inbound links and the page you are targeting for Google pagerank. Links from sites that are related to your page in terms of content are considered for Google pagerank than links from unrelated sites because content is king.

7) Create links from bigger sites in a particular community

When creating or building inbound links to a targeted page. One should focus on how a website or pagerank is more authoritative, bigger and popular in that community or niche over other related sites. Google and other search engines will consider inbound links to your page from sites that are bigger, popular and authoritative than inbound links from smaller sites in the same community or niche for improved pagerank.

It is believed that the most of the page rank people hear about heavily depends on link building efforts one puts in place for his or her page or website. This post does not give attributes measured by search engines for your pagerank but analysis of patent applications, experience, testing and information from Seo conferences.  

That’s it for now. Feel free to add-on or comment and criticize where possible.

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