Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by admin
Do you own a directory? Do you have a target keyword in mind that you would like to rank for? What about the long tail keywords? Do any of your category pages rank for their titles? (After removing your directory URL).
Why am I asking this? My friend from TopClickMedia, a search engine optimisation company tells me that SEO friendly directory doesn’t only mean the directory has SEO friendly URL, it should also strive to rank for keywords related to it’s category listings to have a significant impact on listed URLs rank.
I got my directories to rank for instant approval directory, fast approval directory etc. but I would like to be on first page for people like Dmegs or VMOptions. What kind of link building activities do you do for your directory?
Tags: directory seo, promoting directories
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (14)
September 27th, 2009 at 2:15 am
I’m still experimenting at the moment, but have got my “niche travel directory” to rank at either #1 or #2 for that phrase (depending on day and datacenter). It’ll be some time before I can rank for “travel directory”, but I plan on giving it a go after a few more months of promotion and link building.
It would be ideal to rank for category keywords, and in fact I do for some longtail phrases, but I don’t see how a directory could rank for “caribbean hotels” when there’s so much more competition out there. I guess it depends on just exactly how targeted your niche pages are.
JamesM@Niche Travel Directory´s last blog ..Stop! You’re making a mistake (by not listing my site)…
October 13th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Ranking directories has become almost impossible. I tried couple of months back but ended in vain. The competition has become very high and Google is very very strict. I wish your site grows big like VMOptions and rank in top 10 for your niche words. All the best buddy. Try using social media optimization techniques. I am not sure how efficient are they, but I think they are the next big thing.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:49 am
yes it would be great to rank category wise, also that SEO friendly directory is a combination of SEO friendly URL and rank for keywords, so we cannot put one behind another, only then impact will be listed in page rank.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
I think most directory owners don’t do a whole lot of link building, except for just acquiring links naturally from other directories. Some try to gain links through requiring a reciprocal link, but most people are just avoiding those altogether.
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October 24th, 2009 at 4:55 am
does any a times happens that the keyword we target may be same to other one who have targeted same ? and what happens in ranking during such conditions ?
October 28th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
“As I understand, ‘free’ directory owners don’t get enough revenues to promote their directories and spend money on off-page SEO, but pay for review directories must invest a portion of their income back in promoting themselves.
The holy grail is to rank for ‘directory’ or ‘web directory’. Though ‘business directory’ might be most profitable keyword.
I don’t really expect directory detail listings or categories to rank for high competition keywords, the text to links ratio is not right for most directories anyway.”
October 29th, 2009 at 6:17 am
I m still experimenting with all those directories, but yet i couldn’t get satisfactory one, there are many but i would again prefer Yahoo search to go for search of blog domains. Because that is the biggest S-Engine in the world
Moshe Lavi@ceramic knife´s last blog ..Home
October 29th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Nowadays, being SEO friendly doesn’t mean the URLs are rewritten. DigitalPoint, one of the biggest webmaster forums, doesn’t rewrite their URLs. I prefer directories that allow larger description or that promise to write a detailed (and unique) review about my site on submission.
Sam Jones@Women’s Luxury Watches´s last blog ..free_shipping
November 4th, 2009 at 10:03 am
You got a good point here about SEO for directories themselves. Unless the directories are strong domains, they aren’t useful for the people doing submissions. I believe only 2-3 scripts are very popular, shouldn’t the script owners take care of SEO?
November 5th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Long tail keywords are certainly the single major source of organic traffic for my directories. Sometimes, you have to edit submission titles in order to maximise long tail keyword potential. Many submitters are just not savvy enough, or they use third-party submitters that simply want to get paid which leads to poor quality submissions.
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November 7th, 2009 at 8:13 am
yes most of the directory owners don’t do a whole lot of link building, except for just acquiring links naturally from other directories, they just copy the database, while some try to gain links through requiring a reciprocal link, but most people are just avoiding those altogether. i would prefer to go for paid directories with worthy one.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I don’t think free directory owners get enough returns from their directories to invest back on their sites. I am sure they are either selling email addresses or CPM ads to make some profits. What factors do you look at to see if a directory is investing in promotions?
November 12th, 2009 at 12:54 am
i think, long tail keywords are not that much effective as that of small tail keywords, which every person or even beginners try to search it out.
November 14th, 2009 at 10:40 am
From the POV of someone submitting to a directory – based on what was written as well as what the other commenters have said – if a directory’s category page does not rank for at least a number of the long tail keywords I am targeting, it is not worth submitting to?
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