An Experiment of a Webmaster

I’m adding a link directory to this site to help out webmasters who are trying to get the word out about their site. While in development I’m deciding whether I want to make it a webmaster niche directory or not. I have a while to decide that though, because I still need to create a design that makes the wordpress theme flow with the directory. We’ll see how it goes

So, I got my directory submissions done for 2 sites. I set up an email account to receive the emails at yahoo so I couldn’t get spammed and had been checking it regularly. I am fairly happy with the results so far except for one thing. On the game site that I had submitted, the person had copied my description 4 times into the submission fields. I’m worried that may cause some of the sites to reject my link, which wouldn’t be good. I’m going to hold off on posting a comment on this guy until I get more approvals coming in and see the full results. At least I’ll have the links, but the repeating makes the submissions appear spammy.

Article writing is something I’m going to begin playing with very soon. I’ll modify and submit my tutorial articles so far to an article distribution site so bloggers and ezine writers can all pick up the story and post the article for free. At first that seems like a bad idea because I’d be giving away all my content, but its really not.

When you post an article for others, you are allowed to put an author box at the bottom. In the authors block, you tell a little bit about yourself and can include links. When others pick up the articles, they have to leave them untouched and links intact. When a search engine crawls the article directory or the end site where your article is published, your link is intact and counts as a backlink. So the idea is mutually beneficial to you.

Once google begins indexing my site more regularly I am going to start submitting some of my tutorials and writing to these sites. I also am thinking about offering some of my writer friends the chance to get their names out there. If they write the articles, I’ll pay for the widespread submission to directorys and help them track the progress. In return, my links will be included in the resource box at the bottom. The more links you have, the better you’ll rank.

Ok, that headline is a little blatent, but still I meant it. Link to me. I have no problem with blatently asking people to link to me I am interested in getting the word out on my blog. Receiving links to your web site home page is critical for the search engines to start considering me to be an authority on a topic. If someone takes the time to add a link to me, then google believes that this is the websites attempt to suggest a link to their readers. If I am good enough to suggest a link to, then I’m good enough to rank a little higher in the search engines so many more people can be exposed to me. So by deciding to link to me, you’re not just sending me visitors from your site. You’re convincing google to link to me more often also.