Start From A New Domain

It is very easy to acquire a domain with pagerank sitting doing nothing. However, this will have three detrimental effects. First you will more than likely lose that pagerank with the first pagerank update following the change in focus of the site, secondly the directory will have a completely unrelated domain name, and finally you could end up damaging your brand if people viewed the web archive before submitting, and find that instead of building the domain, you bought it.

Add Content To Your Site

Don’t just stick up a directory onto your site, contribute more or else Google will consider your site a link farm and slap it in the supplemental index. Include more content in your directory, such as a blog, or a forum, or even just a few unique articles, to avoid this occurring. Furthermore, you will have something to offer your readers, who could turn into bidders.

Be Honest And Helpful To Your Submitters

If you get a submission, inform them about it, how the review process went, what they can do to improve their listing (surprisingly I get a lot of people who are unfamiliar with Bidding Directories), and the like. This will help generate repeat business from webmasters, a crucial tool in the running of Bid Directories.

Don’t Give Away Free Reviews

This is a personal bugbear of mine. For one you are cheating yourself by giving away something you can obtain money for, the second thing is you are cheating people who could be submitting to your site.

Don’t Up People Bids For Free

This is another personal bugbear of mine. I’ve paid for a directory listing, why at a later date should you up a friends listing or indeed offer a “double your bid”. It’s not very nice for current advertisers to find their money worthless.

Offer Other Incentives

So, instead of offering free links or doubled bids, what should you offer instead? Well a good thing to offer for high bids are things like blog posts (remember the blog I told you to attach to your domain? Well now is a good time to use it), and also deep links with listings (most scripts have the ability to add that). You can change the minimum bid amount for these whenever you want without offending your current bidders. You can also offer incentives to current bidders as well to improve the bids.

These along with promotion and SEO will help make your Bid Directory a success. Good luck!

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Your articles should have close to.03(3%) keyword density. You would like your articles to be informative! Why? You not only want high pr backlinks back to your webpage for increase link popularity, but you want end users, who found these pages in SERP’s(Search Engine Results Pages), to read the article and click on the links. So let’s review the basic principles behind article directory marketing, you want the visitor to find your articles in the SERP’s, read them, and visit the website afterwards. The second benefit of this method is to provide a non reciprocal backlink to your sites. So the actual article is for visitors in the present and the backlinks is for subsequential visitors.

Keyword-Rich Articles

Your articles should be informative for the visitor, it should also be fresh unique content for the search engine spiders. You want to write 1-3% keyword rich dense informative article filled with unique content containing at least 800 words. Keyword Density over 3% would be considered keyword spam for the top major players (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask). Which are the only search engines you should focus your attention on. Because of article directory’s rss feeds your articles will be indexed in days and the backlinks should show at every update.

Article Directory Submission

There are literally 1000′s of article directories, press releases, ezine newsletters and content management sites. Only the top most ranked are needed for this method 250-500 hundred is a good start. Rule Of Thumb is to expect at least twice the number of article directories submitted to in backlinks. For submitting to 500 article directories, you should recieve 1000+ backlinks over the course of 6 months. What’s the plus for? These article directories main purpose is to provide content for webmasters to publish, providing they include the author’s links. So if you submit to these 500 article directories, members of those sites will publish related articles on their sites. Thus, improving your potential for increase targeted traffic. Keep it up, there are software and services that will fully automate this process, but over time and after 15 articles your articles should be in the top 40 of your keyphrase as the page ages, so does its links. With the aging of the indexed pages they become more important,as well as the links and the pages they are directed to.

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