Why Use Internet Directories Will Get More Traffic!

Why Submit Your Online Business To Internet Listing Directories
 

Well that is a question. So will answer it as best I can. Let’s go back a few
years I started business ecommerce website called UK Greeting Cards I was a real novice to the world wide web so I designed an website got it hosted and it went live.
 

  I then started rubbing my hands together thinking I have a great looking website I will get tons of internet visitors. Guess what I did not. I thought to myself what’s going on why does not anybody click on my wonderful site. Quite simple really the site just was not
optimised for search engines. All the major search engines just did not know that I even had a website.
 

The biggest mistake we can make is this. Your high street shopper you go to your shopping centre or high street you are looking at all the lovely shop front windows displays saying huge saving in side or really eye catching window displays which they do to get you inside there shop.
 

Now let’s talk about an online internet business its virtual ecommerce site it’s not visual you cannot touch it. So do I find a business or service or product?
 

Quite simple really you use search engines or shopping directories. So let’s look deeper at the search engine how it works. Lets imagine that I am shopper and I want to buy greeting cards for women so I would go to a search engine and type these words in and press go the search engine then searches all there databases for related information on those keywords. Then the search engine will display on the page all websites relating to the criteria you imputed in i.e. Now this is where the fun starts let’s say my site is a greeting cards shop and guess what I sell cards for women. I need to be in the first page of the search engine with my URL that’s website address my description. But in the real world you will not be there more like page 10 and beyond.

So how can I achieve better results quite simple really you have to tell the search engines that you sell greeting cards for my wife or near as possible to this phrase. It is called a title tag.
 

Now let’s now talk about why I should bother with internet directories. Again quite simple really you can gain quality back links to your site this is very important to your online business.
 

Example Let’s say you use Business Listing directory you then look for the best category is very important you spend time getting this right so you sell gifts the best main category would be shopping then good quality directories will have sub categories you then would look for gifts as your sub category.

Then you fill out the form it will ask you for the title tag this is the most important part you must take time in getting this bit right. So example title tag would be Unique greeting cards for women online shopping looking at the tag you have put in your keywords which are greeting cards for women then in your website page category please make sure your keyword phrase is there. Now your description make sure your keywords are placed in the wording. You then add your URL e-mail and other information. You then add listing.

Once it has been checked it will go live. All the major search engines are always looking for new information they will scan the directory and follow the link title tag back to your site they then check for relevance and that’s how you get ranking. The more links pointing to your site with these relevant keywords the more chance of you being found within the search engines.
 

Another tip is when you are submitting your online business try and get your site featured there is usually a small fee for this but it is well worth it. For example business listing directory should have Google page rank of 3 or more, if you go for showcase your business or service will be displayed on my front page of my directory. Google will look at the link of your site and the link was you have listed and check the rank of both sites the higher the ranking the better.
 

Well I do hope this has helped you understand the importance of listing your business or online services to directories.
 

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