There are many, many ways to promote your directory and market your link directory services on the Web. This article will provide 10 fundamental steps for promoting your directory. If you haven’t followed these basic steps or have a good reason for not following any of them, it might be time to take a step back and cover your basics.
- Clean up your directory. This will help your directory promote itself. Go for a custom design, add unique content, in short: offer something of value!
- Add your directory to your sig and profile on Webmaster forums and promote while you’re posting.
- Link to your directory prominently from your other directories and relevant Web sites.
- Offer your custom template as a free download if the user keeps a link to your directory in the sig.
- Provide free services like SEO tools and blog or post about them online.
- Trade links with other quality link directories.
- Sponsor other people’s custom templates and themes
- Write a free eBook or provide some other exciting free download for your audience and host it on your directory.
- Use social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and furl to tag important announcements and new features.
- And the most obvious: submit your site to other quality directories!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback“Add your directory to your sig and profile on Webmaster forums and promote while you’re posting.”
That really works.
Cool 10 list. Add content and Stumble it. I’ve see visits from Stumble within hours.
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