Hi,
I am stumped. I want to get inbound links to my site and I think I should be prepared for a tedious process. Each site I look at asks me to put their link in my site before I submit my URL.

Questions:

Isn't this the same as reciprocal linking? or link exchanging?

Is my sidebar the best place for these?

Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

-Jeannie

Most directory sites have 3 options

Paid listing - you have to pay to get it in quick

Linkback Free reciprocal listing (claims to get you listed quicker)

And Free General listing (no reciprocal needed)

Choose the last option

I just submitted my site to 500 directories, took me a couple of weeks, but I used the free non-reciprocal choice)

I found that a majority got submitted within 2 days, even though it says months.

hope this helps

Charles

Thanks for the help. 500 Directories!? Wow! Thats an accomplishment.
I decided to use the service for the Directory Submission Service in Holly Mann's book for now. Next time I'll ask you... just kidding.

Peace,
-Jeannie

jeanangelina wrote:
Hi,
I am stumped. I want to get inbound links to my site and I think I should be prepared for a tedious process. Each site I look at asks me to put their link in my site before I submit my URL.

Questions:

Isn't this the same as reciprocal linking? or link exchanging?

Is my sidebar the best place for these?

Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

-Jeannie

Hi - I am right in the middle of some research on this... if you can check back in a bit...

I have been using Link Vault for a few months now as a vital part of my link building strategy. I also write and submit articles and try for the occasional link exchange and directory submission. But the best way I have found for increasing traffic and page rank is by using Link Vault for one way links to my many sites. I have used two sites to display links for other websites and I use the credits earned to have 100's of websites link to my other dozen sites. Check my sig below for a link to their website.

Derek

Link Vault

Post edited by: dmoore, at: 2007/02/10 21:17

oops - sorry chamel, I lost this post. Thought I had come back to it.

Anyway I posted what I found here:

http://anakaonline.blogspot.com/2007/01/two-article-submission-softwares-i-have.html

I tried two article submission services and refunded one. I really like the one I kept because it speeds up the submissions without fully automating them. When you fully automate submissions to get 100 links all at once, it puts your site way at the end of the search engines as they hate it.

This one lets me submit an article to 10 places here, and 5 there, whenever I have time, and takes me through the sign up and registration process so I don't have to find the sites and do everything but it is still a manual submission. Also it has an edit feature which lets me add article submission sites to the program. And I can add the page rank to the sites so I make sure to submit to the highest page rank sites first.