Increase Your Traffic For Free
August 1, 2008 by IngaOz
Filed under Money Making Tips
By: Joseph Pratt
Okay, you have your website and now you want more visitors. Don’t think you’re the only one, bub, but you can learn from the experience of others. Subscribing to web directories is one solution that the ICMediaDirect.com Consulting Division both recommends and executes for clients in order to increase traffic. Like any SEO task, its effort – and smart effort always works best.
1) Traffic. Close to 20% of all traffic comes from web directories. That’s either quite a heap to tap into or a massive chunk to disregard. Simply put, the choice is up to you – there are fishes in the water, do you want to cast out your lines or not? If so, let’s hit the web directories.
2) Get Linked. Search engines include link popularity in their rankings. Using web directories enmeshes your website into linkage, which increases visitors. This creates better rankings – hence more traffic to your web property.
3) Hyperlinked Keywords. Link popularity develops by incorporating keywords into the hyperlinks. Submissions to web directories should include relevant keywords. It makes your site easier to find and boosts the visibility of said links across the spectrum of search engines. More free traffic.
4) Keyword Optimization. It’s doubly important to mention keyword research as it can help you in more ways than one, so choose carefully. The links created within web directories essentially act as recommendations to search engine algorithms and the search engine will attempt to match your hyperlink keywords with search phrases entered by users. So, by harmonizing your keywords to themes related to your website, you will boost visibility.
5) Diversify. Submit to different web directories and find them through search engines. The reason being is that they already have decent standing by virtue of you finding them from the search sites. Play around, get creative, and use key words in combination with topics relevant to your site to find the best web directories. Increase your visibility by hitching on to existing and working directories – if you found it, others will too.
6) Monkey see, monkey do. Mimic your hyperlinks to appear like those seen in Google Adwords. Whatever wordings helps make those ads rank well for Adwords will only help your viability through search, and in turn, web directory ranking. Success begets success.
7) Mind your web directory manners. Treating it like a doormat (by ignoring simple rules to follow, like don’t use too much promotional nomenclature, no foul language, etc) is no good. Play by the rules, or don’t play at all.
Web Directory 2.0. Oh yeah! Webmasters are privy to vastly improved web directories with uniform scripts and the functionality of web directories is beginning to improve drastically. A directory can do more with your listing, like displaying logos and basic contact info. The web directory itself has become more pleasing to the eye – and, I should add, for its own good!
Web directories are there for the taking. There is little harm in trying them and with some effort, big rewards may be reaped through increased traffic. What’s more is that web directories (just like this advice column and ICMediaDirect.com’s consulting services for clients) are free. You can’t beat that.
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IngaOz reply on August 3rd, 2008:
That site is currently down for me
I will check it later and if things will be still bad, I will find another one for you 
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I have always wondered how much directories really help your page’s traffic. Most directories have pretty low page-rank, so I can’t imagine that getting links from them are all that useful from an SEO perspective. Maybe you get some more customers from clicks, but there can’t be that many people who sort through those massive directories to find the one company that is right for them. I continue to be skeptical.
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I never imagined that directories directly help traffic… I though they were basically just for getting PR+
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20% wow! I never knew directories were that vital.
Currently hunting a good directory of directories… anyone know any good ones?
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web directories is one of the solution to get huge of backlinks
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I would also like to know which are the “best” directories to join. Many have accepted my sites, but with little or no traffic help. There are others too that require payment to be added to the directories
. One site I’ve noticed that uses the hyperlinked keywords effectively is bloggernoob dot com. They have a lot of good information for noobs and little by little I’m putting to use the tips like the ones above and the ones from bloggernoob. Hope it all adds up to something good, aka lots of relevant traffic, in the end 
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Does directory summiting services work or are paid directories better?
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Web directories was used for getting backlinks….
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Thanks for the heads up! time to go hunting for some nice directories.
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I am a member of some web directories but they haven’t provided all that much traffic and I get way more from the search engines themselves. This probably has something to do with the keywords that I use within titles and the post themselves. Still, perhaps were I to join a hundred or so directories I would be guaranteed some sort of increase
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I suppose that driving traffic from directories is highly dependant on which directories you choose.
There appear to be thousands of them out there. Any advice on where to focus our efforts ?
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Mimic your hyperlinks to appear like those seen in Google Adwords…. does that actually work or does it just cheese the readers off and they click anything to get away? Interesting, I will try that and see.
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Great tips for blog traffic. I love the idea of mimicking what ranks well in Google Adwords.
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Point six about copying adwords sounds sneaky but I can see how it could be used. good tip.
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There are plenty of people dissing directories these days. But they do make up part of a complete breakfast. Oops. I’ve watched one too many cereal commercials in my lifetime.
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Some good info here. Thanks. Directories great for backlinks.
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I just don’t see the “20% of traffic” comes from directories. Is it just me ? I’m looking at Google Analytics, and the vast majority is search engine traffic, followed by direct traffic, then a small amount from other sites, but mostly popular sites that people read in context.
Great post though…
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