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Directory Listings are a necessity to provide your websites with backlinks, whether they be one way or reciprocal.  Think about a directory like a phone book.  People can look up the entries (websites) that are listed in the directory.  As with a phone book, if no one is actually looking through it, your listing will not be seen.  This doesn’t mean that it isn’t a worthwhile thing to do however, as every one of these directory listings that you get acts as a link to your website, which in turn will help you get ranked better by the other search engines (which is what doing all this is really meant for).  This is a slow process however, so realize results are not going to be seen overnight.  There are a lot of people submitting their own websites to the many directories available.  What this means is you should start including your websites into them as soon as possible.  Some directories take months to get listed in with the backlog of entries waiting for submission.

To make the process of doing this a bit easier, Brad Callen has a software program called Directory Submitter.  This is a very easy tool to use, and sure beats having to retype the same info in the forms numerous times!  Submit Your Website To Thousands Of Website Directories Instantly   Did you know there are literally thousands of these directories on the web?  Using a program that has a lot of them listed already makes it very convenient!  You don’t have to search for all of them.  Of course, it’s still time consuming to go through the process of submittal, but you can get listed in more directories faster by using a program like this than not using one.  The above mentioned program (free, by the way) has over 350 directories included, which is a great start.  There’s an upgrade available that has over 1700 when you’re ready for it (very inexpensive for what you get).  This program is in my own personal arsenal of tools to use to promote my websites.  It’s also the preferred directory submitter to use as its one of the easier ones to use.

When submitting your directory listings, be sure to pace yourself.  You want the links that you get to “look” natural to the search engines.  By that I mean you don’t want to get 300 links overnight!  Perhaps try to get just 25 a day.  This looks very natural to the search engines, like the owner of the website is building links for his site via an uncontrolled method (such as NOT using a tool like this!).  The nature of any website is to have links coming & going to/from it, so the search engines “know” you are going to have some, just try to keep them looking like they were all done manually.  Because of the backlog of submitted websites, the reality of getting the links will not really be acquiring 25 a day, more likely, you may get a dozen or more every day since some directories are quicker in the approval process than others.  That’s why you need to submit to 25, so you can hopefully get a dozen or more every day.

This should be a daily chore if you want to keep the exposure and traffic coming.  Alternatively, if you can’t do this daily, schedule it into your week somehow, perhaps twice or three times a week.  Just keep it consistent all the time, for the natural look & to make sure you get visitors dropping by your site.

Directory Listings - Get Listed!  Go ahead, start today, and tomorrow, and the next, and so on.  Your title that you use for the directory is sometimes your text link (keyword), so you may just get into that #1 Google spot yet if you try hard enough!

You should always get in the habit of trying to use methods that will gain traffic to your websites.  You Surf, They Surf, We all Surf, as this is what the internet is actually for, surfing for information.  While you are surfing though, wouldn’t it be nice to get some credit for doing that?  Instead of just doing it?  What a bonus, while you are browsing for various things, at the same time, you are accumulating credits that can be used to advertise your own websites!  This is actually a pretty clever idea.

There are many free traffic generation sources like this that are available for you to use.  You can utilize more than one, but some of them have it set up where they are in your web browser & it’s actually your start-up page when you first open your browser window (which is a great method).  You should be doing a little surfing each day to keep a constant flow of traffic going to your own sites.  With the traffic program in place, just set aside maybe 10 minutes (more if you’re able) every day and start surfing first thing when you log on.  No hassle, easy and quick, another simple method for free traffic going to your sites!  You Surf, They Surf, We all Surf!  But now WE benefit from it!

Here’s a fully automated traffic-generation system that can send 1000’s of targeted prospects to your website, every single day, for FREE!  It’s also my favorite one to use, and believe me, I’ve used a lot of the different plans available.  This one takes just 5 minutes to set it up, and it’s totally “viral.”  Check it out and create a free account today!  Get More Traffic.

Since we all tend to just not only spend our time developing, marketing & promoting our own web sites, but browse the internet for information on our other interests, why not self-serve yourself and gain a bit of a bonus via this free exposure method?  Surfing is part of why the web is out their, because people want info.  And if we are going to go looking around anyways, wouldn’t you rather get something for it, since you’re going to do it anyways?  I know I would!

You Surf, They Surf, We all Surf.  And now we can get thanked for doing so!  That’s just another tip for getting more exposure to your sites, and you know that every little bit helps.

When you have your own websites, the one thing you must also have, is Free Traffic going to your websites.  Without it, no one will know that your websites are even there. 

There’s lots of ways to get Free Traffic, but one easy method that I have found is to sign up at one of those sites where they give you a small amount to initially get you into the door, hoping you will sign up, or purchase, their “bigger” offer.  Of course, you don’t have to actually buy the upsell, unless you feel it’s worth it.  But by joining the program they are offering, simply to get the initial Free Traffic, will get some exposure to your websites.  And if you continually sign up for these free programs, you get (even if minimally) the exposure to your websites that costs you nothing but a bit of your time.  Granted, this isn’t the only method that you should be employing to get traffic to your sites, and perhaps not the absolute best way either, but all of the things you do combined, is what makes the difference between people seeing what you have on the internet, or not.

Get 100 FREE Visitors to Your Website! is one such program that gives you a guaranteed 100 people seeing your website.  They also have a program set up (no cost to join, by the way), that if you advertise their service, they will give you 25 more free hits everytime you refer someone.  Not a bad arrangement for very little work.

For more programs such as the above, you can go to the search engines and find, I’m sure, thousands more.  Some cost to join, some don’t.  With so many different companies offering similar systems, I prefer to not have to pay for them.  Why should you?  Spend that same money you would have to pay to join, on something that will give you a better return on your investment!

Free Traffic really isn’t free, as you have to spend your time doing the work to get it, but at least it doesn’t actually cost you any money.  Plus, once you do the initial setting up of joining into the program, your work for that (one program) is done, and you could possibly continually get visitors to your websites for a long time after that.  At no additional cost, or time spent, to do so.   Now go sign up for more of these!  If you spend a day (or half a day) doing this, just once a week, week after week, you should have people coming to see what you have in no time!