Link Building Made Easy

If you're new to website promotion then I'm sure you've read a couple of guides recently on how to do it. One of the first things you do is submit your site to as many directories as you can. It doesn't get you a whole lot of traffic but it does give you links that the search engines will crawl.

If you don't want to spend a lot of money to list your site then you are going to do a lot of reciprocal linking. That means you're going to end up with a long list of links that all go to directories. Not to mention that reciprocal linking carries less weight than one-way links when Google crawls them. But that's a discussion for a different time.

The point at hand is this: before you can submit your link to a directory you must already have their link in place. Here is the brilliance of it all. When they set up their directory, the forced link doesn't have to lead back to them. It could lead to Yahoo, Google, or theDumbestDomain.net! It really doesn't matter. As long as you have that link in place, you can submit your link to them free of charge.

With that said, let's think about how we can turn this into our advantage. If you had your own directory, you could force your business domain onto any site that wanted a free link from you. You could even set up a price list for featured and regular one-way links to make you a little extra money too! It's not as hard as you might think either.

To set up a directory you need 3 things..

1. A domain name
2. A hosting account with PHP, and MySQL
3. and a Directory Script like PHP Weby

Installing the script takes about ten minutes and then setting it up takes about an hour. You have to set up your entire category structure and all of the individual settings. Once you're done, exchange links with every other directory you can find. Eventually you'll have plenty of links out there.

It's not completely automated however. You will still need to approve the links before they will show up in your directory. So for every link you get out there, you'll have to click a button. Sounds like a lot of hard work huh?

You can find the PHP Weby script at http://phpweby.com/software/dir

Submit your site for free to the Free Directory at http://compunerd.