The benefits of listing in a business directory

1. The Benefits Of
Listing In A
Business Directory

2. 1.Faster indexing
10 Ways to Get a Website Indexed Fast
•Ping your website and individual pages using free tools
like Ping-o-matic or Pingoat
•Stumble it on Stumble Upon or other social discovery sites
•Tweet it on Twitter
•Syndicate the RSS feed to Friend feed, and other RSS & blog
directories. A great list of blog and RSS directories can be
found here.
•Bookmark it on Delicious or other social bookmarking sites
•Link to it from well established website or blog
•Hook the URL up to Feedburner
•Include the URL in your a forum signature
•Send out a press release
•Submit the XML site map to Google

3. 2.Higher Page Rank
10 Ways To Improve Your Google Page Rank
1.Pool your votes
2. Provide testimonials
3. Offer discounts
4. Donate to charity
5. Volunteer your services
6. Locate references without links
7. Book speaking engagements
8. Create a superior product or service
9. Sponsor photo contests
10. Target the right keywords

4. 3.More pages indexed
5 Tips to Getting More Pages Indexed
1.Have a smart XML sitemap
2. Make sure your pages are inter-linked
3.submit to index
4. Fix any duplicate content and crawl errors
5. Add rich snippets

5. 4.Quality directory traffic
10 Ways to Get Traffic for Free
•Optimize your site for search engines.
•Frequently update the contents of your site.
•Take advantage of social bookmarking sites.
•Use your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
•Get links with other sites in your niche.
•Use any chance to promote your site for free.
•Create a free product or service.
•Use viral content.
•Use offline promotion.
•Include your URL in your signature.

6. 5.Brand building

7. 6.Higher link popularity
ink popularity is a term that
refers to how many other
links point towards a
particular website. The term
link popularity also has two
different forms, Internal and
External, which refer to the
links coming from the
websites own web pages and
from other websites.

8. 7.Better rankings
How to Improve Your Website's
Google Ranking
•Keyword Phrases
•Density
•Name Your Pages
•Links
•Social Networking
•Make Your Graphics Search Friendly
•Good Design Is Popular Design

9. 8.Effective Keyword Targeting
10 Places to Target Keywords
1.URL
2. Page Title
3. Inbound Links (with Keyword Anchor text)
4. Outbound Links (Avoid!)
5. Header
6. Bold Text
7. Body Text
8. Meta Description
9. Image ALT Text
10. Image File Names

10. 9.Social media sharing
Most directories
have social sharing
buttons allowing
directory users to
share your link
with others.

11. 10.More customers
How to Get Customers to Your Business Web Site
•Online optimization
•Offline promotion

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