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one of the first steps after launching a new website is to seek out directories that you can add your URL to.
So Is it beneficial to swap reciprocal links with a directory? Few Points to remember……
1. Depends on the quality of the directory. There are all types of directories. You will see directories that are low quality in appearance and content, and you will find directories that are high quality and offer useful related content.
2. Look for the editor controlled directories.
3. You should be able to find relevant content to what your website is about.
4. Focus on quality and relevancy than PR(page rank). PR does not matters in this case because there are many quality websites which start off new with low (or no) PR.
5. Getting your site reviewed manually and then listed in a directory determines the quality, relevancy of your website as well as the web directory you are submitting to.
6. You might try Googling your keyphrase + add link [or] suggest link [or] add url [or] submit a site which will show you websites that match your keywords and also actively solicit link exchange.
7. Link exchange with quality sites when it benefits your end users experience by helping them learn more about your own product/service/information.
8. Link exchange should always be conducted first and foremost as a branding and traffic building function.
9. Do not make linking decisions based on how you think it will affect your website rankings in search engines.
10. If you “require” reciprocation instead of politely requesting it when it benefits the end user, think of how that sends the wrong signal to the other webmaster.
11. Look around your keyword sector in Googles version of the ODP. (this is best done AFTER getting an odp listing – or two). Find sites that have links pages or freely exchange links. Simply request a link exchange. Put a page of on topic, in context links up your self as a collection spot.
12. Search Engines prefer that you as a webmaster avoid those services where you pay your money and then you get auto linked to hundreds or thousands of websites overnight without making any decisions as to who you will or will not be linked to.
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Who you link out says a lot to the search engines about your link development strategy.
14. You fail to update your content on a regular basis and/or publish fresh useful content on a regular basis and you are more likely to lose your search engine rankings.
15. Buying links from quality directories or blogs (and via blog comments) are also useful when it’s relevant for the end user.
16. Keep link development volume natural.
Obtain a new link today, none tomorrow, 3 links the next day, none for the next few days, 4 the next day, one the next day and so on.. If you find a cure for a horrible disease and you publish it on your website and you end up with a high volume of links overnight, do not worry about that. The search engines are smart enough to sort that out.
17. Topical directories have the strongest rankings
18. Browse through the 99% web directories to know which is the worthwhile directory and this should be a continuous process.
19. Support your local and topical directory.
20. Web directories help in finding authority websites
21. More doubts… Read this How to assess free and paid directories?
Remember there is no free lunch and links are cheap.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 (Reuters) – Google Inc. reported on Thursday its quarterly net profit rose 69 percent, topping expectations, driven by market share gains in its Web search business, sending its stock up 2.8 percent after-hours.
Net income rose to $1.0 billion, or $3.18 per diluted share, from the year-earlier quarter’s $592 million, or $1.95 a share. Excluding stock-option expenses, profit was $3.68 per share versus $2.29 a year before.
Gross revenue rose 63 percent to $3.66 billion, including traffic acquisition costs of $1.13 billion paid out to affiliated Web sites that act as billboards for Google ads.
Google recently has come up with four new patents
1. Document Scoring Based on Traffic Associated with a Document [April 19, 2007 - Steve Lawrence]
2. Document Scoring Based on Query Analysis [April 19, 2007 - Jeffery Dean]
3. Document Scoring Based on Link-Based Criteria [April 26, 2007 - Anurag Acharya]
4. Document Scoring Based on Document Inception Date [April 26, 2007 - Matt Cutts]
How much time does it take to index a site based on the keywords targeted?
The wider the topical nature of subpages, the higher level of authority you need to become in order to rank for them all.
It is difficult to break from a traditional website “theme” model and become a know-all authority. That requires many many links straight to the homepage, and many many deeplinks into the content pages. You need everyone in each sub-topic citating your subpage as the authority in that niche.
Wikipedia pulled it off – see that for an example of this in pratice.
If you have a decent internal link structure and navigation, you’ll get all pages indexed. But you’re only likely to rank well on one or two topics (that’ll vary depending on how competitive each keyword term is) without having a massive inbound link structure out there.
Any decent search algorithm will ultimately theme your pages collectively. They will not assume that you’re an authority on everything. That may not necessarily be deliberate, it’s a result of the interlinked structure of the web. If you visualise the web as a collection of topics, and think about which sectors your links come from (particularly the high quality ones), you’ll picture how that bias exists. Link structure is 99% of it, in particular, deeplinks from other authorities in each keyword niche.
I have heard experience from several webmasters that a subdomain per topic works better (at the moment at least) than a sub-directory per topic.
If your pages are actually all related to a parent topic, concentrate on the parent topic and your internal link structure. If you already rank top 10 for “widgets”, it’s far easier to get a page top 10 for “widgets reviews” or “silver widgets”. You still need deeplinks from authorities to the “widgets reviews” and “silver widgets” pages, but you’re already halfway there with your theming.
what time period does it take for directories to influence search engines indexing all the pages of the site?
That depends from search engine to search engine. The trick is to submit and forget – don’t wait for something to happen – keep building content and getting links.
Domain Generator is an automatic generator of thousands of domains. Useful if you are trying to generate keyword specific domain.
Similar online tools
www.domaintools.com.
www.domainsbot.com.
Continuing from Part 1 of dealing with duplicate sites.
The problem
Anyway, what exactly is the problem?
Are you saying that BOTH the sites are completely out of the index, one site, or just some pages?
In case of duplicates Google usually choose one url as the original and keep it in the main index. If all (original and duplicates) belongs to you and at least one copy is indexed then you have no problem.
If you’ve already used the removal tool, those urls are now gone from Google for 180 days – no backing out is possible. But you’ve also greatly simplified your situation now, so all your further troubleshooting will be a lot easier.
If you haven’t already, I’d suggest studying the threads in our Google Hot Topics at a minimum. I’ve pinned it to the top of the Google Search index page so it’s easy to find.
If you do not know the Mod- Rewrite then
Just use mod re-write and do the entire domains to the root of the site you are keeping, no need to worry over the individual pages, in fact you could even delete them all.
Don’t know the exact code, I’m sure you can find it by searching here for “mod-rewrite redirect site”.
Everything done, When will Google recover the unique site then?