For a long time while doing IM, in fact all of 2010, I never believed in directory submissions. I always felt they probably are worthless and do not help much with rankings. Not only that, but it can be expensive to pay someone to do them for you and the few times I did it was hard to see any results. however, early 2011 I came across a tool called sliq submitter plus which has made it a LOT easier to do directory submissions and also has a lot of nifty tools that I think make it a key directory submission software.
First off, I highly recommend the plus version which is at $50 for a year license. I never tried the lite because for me the key thing about using a good directory submission software would be that it needs to have a lot of automation built in.
First off, when you start your directory submission run it will ask you for a title (basically the anchor text), a full name and the URL. After that you want to enter a description. A key thing that I love about this software is that you can spin the description which is highly recommended as you can see from the demo. Don’t overtly promote your website with things like “this is the best website on x” because it might make it harder to get your website accepted by directories. After the wizard you will have filled out page exactly like the screenshot on the left and I recommend you use some other titles by pressing the + which basically means some anchor text variations.
I don’t always directly use a keyword I want to rank for. For this website, it’s not a real money website so I was a bit broad and I also wanted to see if the rankings for all these keywords in the title would increase ( they did). I basically used that website as a test a month ago to make sure directory submissions still work since I have not done it on my new 2011 money websites yet, I will probably wait until 3-4 months first just because that’s how I roll. Anyway, I recommend you try a few keywords as the title/anchor text but also add some more general sounding names to increase your chances of getting accepted.
Once you click on the star it will start submitting your website, at first you will probably have to choose some categories but the key thing is that sliq submitter remembers the categories you select :). So over time you have to click less and less. I recommend you check “auto submit” but do not check “auto skip” until you are in the PR0 range of websites. At that point I lose interest in selecting more categories so I just let sliq submit to the websites where it recognizes one from the previous submissions.
Another cool thing, if you ahve mroe then 1 website in the same niche you can import the categories you used to the new website so you probably won’t have to select any categories again :).
A few other things…
– It has auto captcha solving and it usually works quite well, I use deathbycaptcha since it comes down to $1.39 per 1000 captchas. I also use it for AMR and other tools so if you already have it for AMR then just insert the same account :).
– Speaking of AMR, I used to use it to do an email confirmation for these directory submissions but as you can see the most recent version has auto email confirm. I haven’t used it yet since it’s already setup in AMR for me but it probably works the same. By the way, for directory submissions you can re-use the same email address but make sure it’s not your main email account!
– I really like that this software is constantly getting updated. I get new directories added very often. In fact, the websites I first submitted in early 2011 I went back to recently and they had an extra 400-700 directories that sliq submitter plus has now added. They also added the spinning in the description and auto check email feature in the past months, I’m looking forward to see if they add anything else but besides more directories I do not see anything else needed by the software itself at this point.
Let me know how well it works for you guys, I think it’s a safe software to use early on but I wouldn’t submit to all the directories until your website has a month or two. It might be best to do something like 500 submissions each week for a month or so. If you are considering using it, it has a 100 directory free trial to give you an idea of the interface, I would appreciate if you use my affiliate link too :).
Thanks for sharing. I have been wondering if to do directory submissions for a few on my websites. I am will now go ahead and do so π I would use your affilate link but I am more of a hiring someone to do them for me type of person lol
Well I have my VA use the software for me. Honestly I would have hired someone in the past but they were charging a few $$ per 100 submissions, like maybe $4… and I had no guarantee they actually did it (I did not see improvements which was one of the reasons I did not believe in directory submissions until I tried this software).
Got this going for one of my sites that need a nudge.. want to see how it works.
Question – Do you just put the main domain URL or have you ever tried (or can you) putting inner page URL’s?
Thanks!
I never tried an inner page URL, I imagine that would depend on the directories if they accept it or not. It’s a bit of a gamble that I might try too, one of my websites is not ranking at all for its domain keyword (it was a bad keyword in terms of search as I later found out) but it makes a lot from inner pages. I would love to submit it’s inner pages but at the same time maybe the overall ranking of my website will go up with the additional homepage directory links that they will accept (vs a few for inner pages but I can’t be sure of this).
Great, more unique ips to get backlinks from! thanks for sharing. Will use your aff link once I’ll buy. One (somehow unrelated) question though:
if you already have amr and sliq submitter, what other services do for more unique ip’s to get backlinks from do you recommend?
I thought about UAW but you said you canceled it, makes me wonder if the additional unique ips one gets from it are not worth the trouble(and cost).
I’ll try the other services you mentioned in your backlinks post though.
Btw, one nice backlink strategy I came across was building your own web 2.0 with buyed domains as tier 1 to your money site, content relevant, non-spammy looking and only build links to them. To add some advertising(no adsense) and affiliate products to them and only keep the ones that are profitable within one year… what do you think about that strategy? It gives you a big private web 2.0 network over time that can even create extra money… Oh btw the guy who is using this strategy actually payed someone to do these niche websites for him.
I did not cancel UAW yet, I’m currently testing a few different websites I’ll only use AMR, UAW and AMR+UAW and compare the rankings. I’ll decide after if I keep UAW or not. As you said, I’m trying to test if the additional IP’s over AMR are worth the cost.
Ya basically my VA is doing that stuff a lot now, building a big web 2.0 network for the sites I did in April-June. Time will tell if it’s worth the investment.
I’m looking forward to your results regarding UAW+AMR. Thanks for your help!
Hi Alex!
I am curious about the results. Did you dropped UAW or not?
Thanks in advance for the reply!
Milena BΓΆhm,
I DESIGN STUDIO
Ya I dropped UAW a while back, too expensive for the results.
Forgot to ask – does it have a drip feed option?
Sadly it does not have drip feed, but it saves everything so you can submit 500 and do it again a week later when you think about it.
nice.
what kind of results did you get from using this a.d.s?
Surprisingly good for some niches, the exact numbers are hard to say in this case but I did it for all my sites and almost always saw an increase over time. I also sometimes tried keywords that I only promoted in the directory submission and while they are often low comp (maybe something like keyword+information so I guess in the demo “acne skincare information” or whatever, those often went from 100+ to top 50 or something. For the low effort it takes to do these (and the one time fee of $50 a year vs constantly paying someone for each website…), I’m very happy.
I’m not understanding. This is new to me, and I don’t know if there’s any directory submission 101 thing or whatever, but yeah, is it just about submitting your website to web directories for it to get more exposure?
Can you do this more than 1 time per website? If so, what would you put in the description? Wouldn’t that be spamming? I think it would, unless you have several websites that you want to submit…??
I don’t know, any lights on this would be appreciated =)
Directories usually only accept a website one time, and by spamming you only risk getting your domain banned from those sites. So I guess its a one time thing per directory per site.
I don’t submit all my websites in the same day anyway. A full run takes a few hours normally anyway. I’m not always looking at the screen and I often have new sites with categories it does not recognize pop.
Alex can you say again how many sites it took you to reach to 100$ per day? and approximately how many keywords?
i’m working on my sites now , and i have the feeling of working on too much at one time.
cheers
80-90% of my income is from 3 sites. With half being from 1 site of 100 posts.
thanks a lot for that Alex,
also would be great to hear about how did you were able to jump from let say 400 per month to 700 per month to 1400 and 2300$ per month etc…
is it only with more keywords starting to rank? and only using the strategy in you backlinks site?(AMR/UAW/AR etc?)
I just want to know if i’m on the right track for those income also π
again thanks a lot for this blog, its really one of the things that motivate me to keep going!
cheers!
Ya it’s just rankings going up and since my first domains were aging other keywords I was targeting was starting to rank faster and faster.
Sounds like diligence and consistency is key and the beginning is the biggest hump you face. The more age and authority you get, the more powerful your site becomes and the more money you can make.
Exactly. Hopefully that site is in a good market too and you’re set. If not, you’ll learn a bit more about choosing a right market and try some more :).
Hi Alex,
Can you apply mass directory submission for a brand new website or would you do this upon finishing the 2-3 month period?
Also, what kind of directories you’re submitting to? Does it include blog directories as well?
Thanks.
what kind.? I just submit to all the ones in Sliq that have a category that makes sense for my website (some are for adult content, other languages, or very narrow stuff like maybe real estate or online business stuff).
I wouldn’t mass submit to directories early on, but it could work well. I’m just not in a rush to do so really…
Noob here. Hello π
How does it usually take to rank for a keyword?
yes, sliq submitter is really great stuff