April 15th, 2008 - 2 Comments

Link Building and Directories…

Updated 07/08/08 with more Irish directories! With thanks to DeadFly

I’ve been monitoring my search engine position for ‘Web Design Cork’ and had noticed that Google was obviously making up it’s mind where the site should be placed. The site currently wobbles between page 1 and page 3 – once I even noticed it at position 1, where it remained only for a matter of hours.

Link building is crucial to any site that wants to perform well in the search engines, so I decided it was time to begin link building, in order to give the site a boost, and my first port of call was the directories. Directories are essentially categorised links to a huge range of websites that people can browse through to find what they are looking for.

There are a huge number of directories out there, so I did some quick research and picked a few that don’t ask for a fee to be listed.

You should be somewhat discerning when choosing what directories you want to submit your url to, particularly with a new site with which directories will form your initial links – you don’t want to your site to start it’s life in Google’s eyes with a high percentage of your links coming from ‘bad neighbourhoods’. One very quick test you can do is to search for the name of the site in Google (& other search engines) to make sure it is indexed – if it’s not, you might want to steer clear.

It will be interesting to watch a) how these new links will impact on the search engine positioning for this site, and b) whether any of the directories send any traffic to the site. Stay tuned for updates!

bear in mind that some directories will list you immediately and other could take months before listing you – often offering a faster service for a fee. If, like me, you don’t feel inclined to pay a fee you should remember submit to directories early as it may take some time to be listed.

Here are the directories I have submitted the url to so far:

Irish Directories:

Other Directories:

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