Directory Submission

moorea77

Hi

I'm newbie to internet marketing, so I read that the simpliest way to get some traffic to your website is to submit it to the 100s of directories.
I have recently submited my website to browseireland directory and even pay 29 euro for the Premium listing. 2 weeks since I never appear on their website. I sent them 4 emails but had no respond.
Does anyone know about browseireland? Are they dead? As far as I know it is very good directory to submit saite for but not to reply to their customers is not seems to be very professional.
If you could help me with any info about them..
Thank you in advance.

LifeBeginsAt40

You could try these contact details for BrowseIreland:

Administrative Contact:
Galligan, Roger roger@iol.ie
Browse the World, Ltd
Nassau House, Nassau Street
Dublin 2
Dublin, Leinster Dublin 2
Ireland
16711111 Fax --

Available from the public domain.

Mrs OBumble

moorea77 wrote: »

Hi

I'm newbie to internet marketing, so I read that the simpliest way to get some traffic to your website is to submit it to the 100s of directories. .

Don't believe everything you read.

Are there any discussion forums where you could participate, and natually mention (ie link to) some resource on your website in response to someone else's query? Or where you could put a link in your signature?

Don't be spammy (self-promoting posts, manufactured questions etc) - be natural and helpful, and if you have good content the links will flow.

moorea77

LifeBeginsAt40 wrote: »

You could try these contact details for BrowseIreland:

Administrative Contact:
Galligan, Roger roger@iol.ie
Browse the World, Ltd
Nassau House, Nassau Street
Dublin 2
Dublin, Leinster Dublin 2
Ireland
16711111 Fax --

Available from the public domain.

Thank you LifeBeginsAt40.
This email roger@iol.ie doesn't work (my email was returned undelivered)
I've also tried this number 014721032 and secretary passed my number to Roger to call me back. Still waiting.

LifeBeginsAt40

moorea77 wrote: »

Thank you LifeBeginsAt40.
This email roger@iol.ie doesn't work (my email was returned undelivered)
I've also tried this number 014721032 and secretary passed my number to Roger to call me back. Still waiting.

I just did a WHOIS search for the domain name (a search of who administers and owns a domain name) and those were the current details for that web site.

If you don't get any response what so ever you could try http://www.domainregistry.ie and see if they could at least provide a valid contact email.

moorea77

I received response from Roger! It is all sorted now.
Thank you all who helped me.

link8r

moorea77 wrote: »

I received response from Roger! It is all sorted now.
Thank you all who helped me.

Directory submission is overrated. Directories do 2 things that are fundamentally at odds with a search engine: 1. they displace search results and move a user to an "alternative" search structure, which is either arranged alphabetically, by commercial incentive or worse and 2. they bleed authority.

I've seen so many people rank/rate directories based on home page PageRank. This is pointless. By the time you're listed on Tier 3 with 100 other sites, you'll get little benefit.

Essentially, directories offer no value to users IMHO. Get a refund if you can and look rather at building a profile, network and useful site. Blogging and wider engagement is much, much more beneficial.

moorea77

link8r wrote: »

Directory submission is overrated. Directories do 2 things that are fundamentally at odds with a search engine: 1. they displace search results and move a user to an "alternative" search structure, which is either arranged alphabetically, by commercial incentive or worse and 2. they bleed authority.

I've seen so many people rank/rate directories based on home page PageRank. This is pointless. By the time you're listed on Tier 3 with 100 other sites, you'll get little benefit.

Essentially, directories offer no value to users IMHO. Get a refund if you can and look rather at building a profile, network and useful site. Blogging and wider engagement is much, much more beneficial.

Hi link8r and thank you for advice. This is a good advice and I know that creating a network and write more content is much better, and I would love to have blog on my website. My problem is that english is not my first language and due to low budget I can't always hire a professional copywriter (actually I did hire but money was gone very fast). The good thing is that my website is useful for people, that's what my registered users said to me. I just need to push it correct way but don't really know how to start.
Do you know maybe any good article/blog writer who can help?

link8r

moorea77 wrote: »

Hi link8r and thank you for advice. This is a good advice and I know that creating a network and write more content is much better, and I would love to have blog on my website.

You're very welcome!

moorea77 wrote: »

My problem is that english is not my first language and due to low budget I can't always hire a professional copywriter (actually I did hire but money was gone very fast). The good thing is that my website is useful for people, that's what my registered users said to me. I just need to push it correct way but don't really know how to start.
Do you know maybe any good article/blog writer who can help?

I wouldn't ever hire a professional copywriter. Firstly, anyone can be a copywriter - its insane to think that this is only for people with a certain type of education. Secondly, most copywriters are over zealous with grammar and particular writing styles, that for the most part, people only read because they have to not because they want to.

Writing your own blog/content may even help you grow your command of the English language.

I'd recommend reading Damien Mulley, Seth Godin, and Pat Phelan all write really well written posts because they know their audience!

If you're still struggling or want more help, I'd suggest getting on to twitter.

You can also buy discreet writing projects via elance and so on - there are a lot of creative types all over the world who can write stuff for you!

vikashmundaa

moorea77 wrote: »

I'm newbie to internet marketing, so I read that the simpliest way to get some traffic to your website is to submit it to the 100s of directories.
Thank you in advance.

You might have encountered wrong info about directory submission are not for traffic purpose nowadays ask yourself if you want to find info about video games would you spends hours in browsing web directory or you just simply google it that's same with many people the directory itself have low traffic so traffic it sends is negligible you should rather try submitting your site in business directory that is more worth the effort.

Seo Purpose : Now directory submission are mainly done for seo purpose if you don't know about seo than you can refer to google or ask in forums.