4 Unique and Free Directory Submission Sites

Nov.18, 2009 in Anything Else, SEO Resources Leave a Comment

An alternative way to increasing your website’s ranking on SERPs is by submitting your business’ website to various directories around the web. This is a great method to improve the amount of backlinks entering your website, and it also gets your website listed within common categories and niches. With this in mind, I would like to bring your attention to the various free and well-known directory submission sites that exist around the web:

  1. SubmitterBot - This site is completely free of charge, and it allows you to submit your business’ website to 600+ web/niche directories, 10+ social bookmarking directories, and 30+ article directories. The advantage of this service is that the user gets to choose which directories you would like your website to be submitted to, along with the category where you want your website to be placed under. Users may also submit directories to this service as well.
  2. Free Manual Directory Submission Tool - This straight-forward tool allows you to submit your website in just four easy steps. There is no account creation with this tool, and it allows you to submit to 900+ directories around the web.
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The Importance of Meta Tags

Nov.09, 2009 in Programming, Design, & Security 3 Comments

As a directory editor, I often come across sites that are submitted to me that do not have any meta tags. With this in mind, I would like to take this opportunity to
express how important meta tags are on your website and how they play a role when using other services.

If you are unsure of what meta tags are, meta tags are HTML tags that are inserted into the header of a web page between the <head></head> tags.

The reasons for having meta tags in your web pages are:

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Twitter SEO Tips

Nov.03, 2009 in Anything Else, Cool SEO Ideas, SEO Resources 4 Comments

As many of you are probably aware, social-networking and microblogging site Twitter is becoming more and more viral as we speak. Various eBusinesses and blogs have twitter accounts, along with various SEO companies/celebrities. With this premise, if you are using this viral microblogging platform to get the word out about your business’ products or events, I have provided some tips and tricks below on how to make your tweets more search-friendly, especially since Google is indexing tweets within its listings.

  1. Always Provide A Link - When tweeting about a specific event or product, make sure that an exact link to the reference is provided. This will help users and search engines acquire more information about the reference that you made, especially if your reference is described on a deep link included in your business’ website.
  2. Add A Hashtag - A “hashtag” is a one-word tag that is mentioned in a tweet that relates to (and practically sums up) the purpose of your tweet. Some examples of hashtags can be found under the “Trending Topics” section of the Twitter website; however, those mainly cover pop culture topics. Hashtags are an effective way to get your tweets noticed, because they act as keywords for the tweet’s topic (especially if your tweet is structured not to mention it in the first place). [Read the rest of this entry...]

Popular SEO Applications for Your iPhone

Oct.28, 2009 in About Moneymaking, SEO Resources 4 Comments

With iPhones becoming a dominant way to stay connected in the eBusiness world, I would like to outline a few applications to help you stay involved with your SEO happenings. These three popular and unique applications are great if you are not able to frequently access a computer but still want to remain on top of your SEO involvement and statistics.

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Why You Should Care About SEO

Oct.21, 2009 in Ads and Promos, Cool SEO Ideas, SEO Resources, Wordpress Tips 9 Comments

If you’re new the world of SEO, you’re probably wondering why SEO even matters. Well, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is important if you want people to find your website, to put it very plainly.

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Be a Good SEO Client

Oct.14, 2009 in SEO Resources 3 Comments

So, it’s come to the point that you need to hire a (good) SEO person to take care of your site and your business. Once you find a reputable one, there are some things you ought to keep in mind. This is all assuming your SEO person has passed all of its criteria you needed, so this is the after-hire.

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Why WordPress Should Be Considered

Oct.07, 2009 in Cool SEO Ideas, SEO Resources, Wordpress Tips 5 Comments

When it comes right down to it, building and maintaining a website is time consuming. It should be though, it’s a lot of work getting all of the materials together. However, just because it takes some time to do, does not mean you should have to spend all of your time maintaining the functionality of your site, when could be using that energy to update the side with content, and bringing more traffic into it. This is where WordPress comes in.

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Meta Keywords, Dismissed by Google

Sep.30, 2009 in Cool SEO Ideas, SEO Resources 3 Comments

Google has stopped looking at the meta keywords in your code when it comes to ranking your pages. The Google official blog explains that it stopped utilizing the meta keywords several years ago. So why are we even still using these meta tags?

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