Today I rejected a boat load of links without even looking at the site. The reason? The submitters had a list of keywords in the title or description.
The reason this is a no, no is that it looks trashy. You may have a site that covers a lot of different products or services and you may feel that to properly describe the site you need to list them all in your description, however, doing so does not help your site for SEO purposes. The description of a link is simply text on the page and will, along with the other links in that category, help aggregate a certain theme or relevance for the page. But, this will only be helpful when much of the page has similar themes, keywords, etc. One description listing everything you sell is just nonsense and serves you no purpose. What’s worse is it looks really trashy and degrades the site and your link.
To be effective with your description you should include the keyword phrase that is your title, in the description in a natural language sort of way… not a list! This particular phrase will generate “SEO Credit” being on the page in a natural way. For true optimizing, focusing links on one primary phrase is far more effective than jamming a bunch of key terms together. This is what I have found to be true in my experience an is documented throughout the Internet by other pros. Good optimization considers both search engines and human interaction for ethical, long term success.
Later…
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I wonder if people think directory owners/ editors are really that stupid? Maybe a little stupid, speaking for myself of course. But not THAT stupid! Today I received another bogus reciprocal link. How was it bogus, you might ask? Same as the rest; it was on some isolated link page with a million other links. It was isolated because it was not linked from any page on the main site, or anywhere else for that matter. It was built to trick people into giving the site a one-way link.
This is not just an ‘opps, oh well…’ sort of thing to over look. Its SEO fraud, and the people who do it are scum. For my part, if you try that crap with me I will simply block you from my directory altogether, so it won’t benefit you. I also have an idea to set up a few direct links to such a page so that the page will actually get crawled and those suckers who are on there will finally get credit. If page rank leakage is real, such scummy sites should get impacted by suddenly having 9000 outbound links. Hmmm, might be an idea… comments?
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directory tips, reciprocal links, rejected
Although not required at all, providing a reciprocal link to Zindexica.com will get your site reviewed much faster, usually within 24 hours. As the popularity grows, this will become more and more valuable as we can only review about 20 -30 links on a good day, and some days none at all (I have a life ya’ know).
HOWEVER, providing a reciprocal link is NOT a guarantee that your site will be accepted. The same review process and rules apply. Also, we have received quite a few reciprocals lately, but almost all of them did not confirm the email. This will disqualify you just the same as a regular link submission. Making the effort to provide a reciprocal link is appreciated, but failing to confirm the email will make it useless in the end.
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The number one reason is failure to confirm the email. As noted in the previous post, if you do not confirm the email, the link does not even get reviewed at all and the system will delete the link after 24 hours. So you gotta do it.
The next most popular reason for rejection is Spammy titles and descriptions. DON”T make a keyword list for the title or the description. Make your title 2 -4 words with first-letter capitals (like any title) and have it be one important key word phrase you are working on.
Make the description objective and non-marketing language. This is known as ‘third-person active voice’. “ABC Electric provides electric parts and supplies in the Dallas Texas area.” NOT “The best electrical parts and the lowest prices in Dallas” – this will be rejected. You are to describe the website and what the business does in plain un-emotional rehtoric.
Hope that helps!
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