How Many Directory Links Are Enough?

Rich Brunelle

How Many Directory Links Are Enough? By: Rich Brunelle

If you run a business and you could place your phone listing or Yellow Pages ad in every phone book in the country, would you? Maybe not, if you sold a locally distributed product or service and didn't have any reason to want the business to grow beyond the reach of the local phone book. But, what if . . . you sold a product or service that you wanted people traveling through your area to know about? What if you sold a product or service that was easily distributable world-wide? Of course you would want to spread your listing far and wide.

There are lots of directories out in cyberspace. There are those that are industry specific, those that are locale specific, some for free, and some require you pay a fee. But, they all have one thing in common. People use them. And, as long as people use them . . . so should you. If you want me to find your web site, you want to place your ad or URL data everywhere I might look for you. Why? Because you want me to buy, sell, subscribe, contribute, or other from you instead of your competitor. While Google and MSN would like you to believe that the whole world searches them and them alone, they are wrong. Myself, I've grown annoyed at searching major search engines and finding pages of nothing relative to my search, or pages that are nothing but search script generated garbage. So, I personally search a variety of directories.

But, say you are joined at the hip with Google, MSN, or any of the other major search engines. And being so inclined, do only search their services. Guess where some of their collected data comes from? That is correct, other directories! And, directories are an excellent "relative link" for search engines to find pointing towards your site. Now, I am not suggesting not using the major search engines. By all means do!

There are SEO Experts that swear by page optimization your web site gets higher ranking with search engines. Others will tell you that writing articles gets you the best ranking. And, others will claim text ads, classified ads, e-books, link engines, link exchanges, and so-on and so-forth, get you a better ranking. Myself, I think a little differently. I think you need to do all of it, plus stand on the street corner periodically and announce to the world who you are and what you do. That's what is required to promote your web site to the fullest. And, unless you already get a million or so hits at your site daily, you need to promote your web site as much as possible.

Here are some new directory sites for you to add your URL data to:

Datajam's Cool Sites Index http://www.djam-promo.com/ is a FREE/Any Topic Directory that will start writing articles about sites listed in its database at random. This gives Users a potential second method of promotion.

djamSEARCH http://djamsearch.djam-promo.com/ is a FREE/Any Topic Directory that promotes User sites by bringing multiple listings of sites when a search category is selected.

PromoSEARCH http://promo.glwb.info/ is a FREE/Any Topic Directory that is very search engine friendly. It is still under development but is accepting site data.

MGLResources http://mglconstruction.com/Resources2.asp is a new FREE/Construction Trades Directory. It is a good place to add your site data if you have anything to do with construction, building materials, or are a Contractor.

WebDirectory http://djam-promo.com/WebDirectory/ is a new FREE/California by City Directory that invites California based sites to add their data to its database.

Feel free to visit any of the sites noted above and add your web site information. While you are at it, feel free to register at djam-promo.com, it is free and we would like to see some new users join us.

About the author:

Rich Brunelle is CC&BW for datajam's Internet and a known dysfunctional non-conformist that has never followed the pack anywhere. You can visit his sites at http://djam-promo.com http://datajamsinternet.com http://djamSEARCH.djam-promo.com http://promo.glwb.info/ or drop him an email at mailto:datajam@comcast.net if you'd like to comment.