Submit link to links directory

There are some basic rules you should apply when you submit your website to a free link exchange directory. I will give some basic advise that might help you maximize the effect of submitting your website to a link directory.

Unique content

It is very important that you use a different website description when you add your website to a link directory. Many people will use the same description for every directory they post their website to. They do this because this will save them time in submitting their links to many directories. What they don't know is that they are creating duplicate content and Google doesn't like duplicate content. In fact, they will often give some kind of penalty to websites that use duplicate content. This is bad for the link directory itself and for the person who submits his link to this directory. Therefore you should try to spin your description of your website. It is not important that you don't write the best description cause Google does't look at descriptions, only at duplicate content.

Vary in Anchor text

A second mistake that a lot of people make is that they use the wrong anchor text. It is also very important to use a variation of anchor texts when you are submitting your website to different link directtories. When you submit your site to a 100 link directories with the same anchor text, Google might consider this as spamming. A result might be that your website might not be included in the google rankings for your keyword. Therefore you should consider using different achor texts. They dont have to be different every time you submit your website to a free or reciprocal link directory, but using variations is very important. Getting ranked for your main keyword is the hardest thing there is when you have a new website. If you want visitors, try to use related keywords to attract longtail traffic to your website. An example of a main keyword might be 'link directory'. An example of a related keyword is in this case 'free link exchange directory'. The main advance is that your website will more easily get ranked for related keywords than for main keywords.

Reciprocal linking to a link directory

Many people just want one way backlinks when they are collecting backlinks. Reciprocal linking might be beneficial for the person who is submitting his website as for the link directory itself. When you link back to the link directory, you provide in this case 'this free link directory' with extra backlinks. The more backlinks a directory receives, the higher it's pagerank will be and how more easy it is to get your website ranked. Many link directories will provide you with free linking and this might sound very interesting at first. The fact is that they will give disadvantage to their own link directory cause of this. That is why many directories ask for reciprocal linking or a small fee to enhance SEO for their website.

Article Directories

Another very popular way how you can collect back links is by submitting your website to article directories. There are many popular directories like Ezines.com or Goarticles. You could also submit your website to ArticlElements.com a quite new but very nice article directory.

When you submit your websites to link directories and article directories you have a very good chance to succesfully promote your website and attract more visitors.