I’ve recently learned a little trick to getting some good strong links.
I haven’t done any link building on this site as you will see in the image below so I figured this site would be perfect for the experiment.

this site is also good for that because quite frankly, I don’t really care too much about this sites ranking in the search engines since it’s not really monetized.

Anyway, Here is the current status of my site. I’ve cut it down to just the stuff I’ll be working on. If you have the SEO for FireFox Extension you can look it up yourself so you know I’m not making it up.

So here are my current linksaccording to the plugin.

Pretty pathetic huh?
What I’m going to be concentrating on are the coveted edu and gov links. Some people don’t think they really mean a whole lot, I don’t know, I guess that’s up for debate. The reason I want to work on those is the challenge I suppose.

Basically that’s about as far as I’m going to go here. If I don’t fail miserably, I’ll give a more detailed description of how I’m doing it… maybe. It’ll probably be a few days for the links to show up if they do at all. It will just be a few but I’m only trying to see if it works, not build a million links.

So check back soon for the results.

I’ve been searching for answers on this and it seems an old problem but I haven’t really given much attention to analytics until recently. I have yet to find any evidence other than the fact that Google Analytics seriously under reports traffic and haven’t found any resolution as of yet. Maybe I missed something.

Below are the comparisons from two of my sites. There is a HUGE difference in numbers as you can see. And yes, I accounted for bot traffic here as well. My affiliate stats would also beg to differ. On the site showing no traffic on GA, my affiliate links show 400+ click throughs…

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Submitting your website to directories can increase traffic to your website and give you better exposure in search engines. It will help raise your search engine rankings and natural search engine traffic can increase significantly. This is due in part, to several or even hundreds of websites linking to yours. Below is a list of 550 free Directories. The more you can submit too the better. You could always hire a submission service to do it for you too. Me, I’m too cheap.

I just submit to 10 or 20 a day and before you know it, you’ve submitted to hundreds or even thousands. One thing I would do is set up an email address just for this purpose.
I have one I set up on one of my hosting packages, it’s simply submissions@someemail.com. That way any request for verification or any garbage that sometimes comes submitting goes there. It’s all in one place and doesn’t clog up my important email inboxes.

Of course, there’s no guarantee your site will be accepted into every directory. So the more you submit, the better.

So on to the list…

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