General Web Directory Link Placements - FAQs

These are the most frequently asked questions about our general web directory link placement service. You will likely find your answers here. If not, please contact us for more information:

• What types of sites are these general web directories? - We only bill our clients for link placements from sites that publicly present that they are genuine, general interest, well-categorized directories, as presented at the root domain (home page) of the site. We do not count links from directories that are buried inside of sites with another purpose.
  
  
• Why do you not offer "thousands" of links, as other submission services claim? - We only bill for actual and verified link placements, not "by the submission". The incentive by these other services to pad the numbers "by the submission" comes at your expense. As many as 60% of all submissions never lead to actual link placements. We don't waste your money on useless "submissions".
  
  
• What do your link placement reports look like? - We provide browser-accessible link placement reports for every domain that we manage (example here).
  
  
• As your client, what am I required to do? - We're 100% turnkey. You simply provide us with a work order submission that includes up to five anchor text and descriptions that you'd like us to use, and we do the rest (example here). Other submission services require that you confirm your own listings, via email, and they do not protect you from email solicitations. Nor do they report on actual link placements. Woth other services, you have to figure all of that out yourself.
  
  
• How can I get maximum search engine benefit for these links? - We suggest that you focus on the five most important keyword phrases for your business, as your anchor texts. Also, all links must point to your home page, root domain, as in http://www.rootdomain.com/. These directories will not accept links to interior pages of your site. For that reason, the home page of your site should include the keyword phrases that you submit, in some way, as visible text. We further suggest linking those terms from your home page to internal pages on your site that are specifically optimized for those keywords. Your home page footer is often a good place for just such links.
  
  
• Will I get spam email from doing this? - NO. We use email addresses from our own servers for your submissions. You will not get any email from this, at your address. Note that many of these directories will not accept submissions using free email accounts. So, we solve the email issue for you, completely.
  
  
• What is the PageRank (PR) of these links? - It varies. Most of these sites have modest PR values on their home pages. Internal pages will be less. We suggest that you look at this as more of a broad foundation of large numbers of affordable links, rather than spend time analyzing PR values that may or may not have much bearing on the outcome, and that change constantly. Also, realize that not all search engines use PR, but do use links.
  
  
• How quickly do you get these links? - As our standard procedure, we space this out over a three month/12 week period, to avoid the appearance of too many links, too fast. Actual verification of all link placement's may take up to 6 months, but we usually expect to fulfill orders with verified link placements in about 4 months. We can accelerate the placements, on request.
  
  
• How long will it take my site to rank on the first page? - Our role here is to manage the placement of these links, on your behalf. We're just one piece of the SEO puzzle. We can make no guarantees as to how this will affect your search rankings, in any way. There are just too many other factors at play. In general, without links most search engines will not rank a site well, but it is imperative that you also develop proper on-site optimization of your own pages, and we suggest that you also pursue other links, simultaneously.
  
  
• Is 200 links the maximum I can order? - No. We are constantly adding new directories to our mix, but we must first verify that they are reliable and actively placing links. The first 200 links represents a reliable foundation. As we add more potential, we will offer more verifiable link placements, in incremental 50 link packages.

As you know, a foundation of links is vital for sites that want to compete for free search traffic. Yet, it takes time and money to get links, even when they are "free".

We suggest that all sites start with the most affordable, legitimate links that they can get, and then build on that. Our "First 200" general Web directory links are the best way to start a link building campaign.

We're the first service provider to make directory submissions sensible and turnkey for agencies like yours. We'd like to serve you.

To get started offering this service to your clients, call Rich Blessing today at 703-729-7446 or email to rblessing@domaindrivers.com

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