Novice webmasters always make mistake as they try to promote their websites. It is important that the novice webmasters learn about the mistakes that commonly happen so that they won’t make the same mistakes again.
Paid directory submission is a waste of your money. Some people are lazy to submit their websites to the directories so they purchase paid directory list. The average cost of the paid directory links service is $15. For $15, the admin will add your site to a batch of directories that is owned by him. It is a waste of money because it will never send traffic to your site. Paid directories are seldom visited by people. In fact, the only people that visit the paid directories is the customers that are verifying their links. However, there are a number of paid directories that have high pagerank and receive a lot of visitors. Normally, it cost a few hundred dollars to place a link in these types of paid directories. Before buying a link at paid directory, you can analyze the number of outbound link it has. The more outbound link it has, the higher the quality of the directory.
Spamming is a mistake that is committed by many webmasters. Many webmaster spam the social bookmarking sites and forum to get backlinks for their sites. They don’t realize that spamming can drop the ranking of their website. If you keep on posting in the forum, the moderator will pay attention to your account. Eventually, he will suspend your account so that you won’t be able to post in the forum anymore. When commenting on blog, make sure you sign with your name and not spammy keyword. Spammers always comment gibberish on the post. When the moderator reviews the post, he will think that a spammy bot had posted the comment. If you want your comment to be approved, it must be informational and contribute to the post.
Many people like to submit their sites to the FFA (Free for All) sites. The FFA (Free for All) site is a type of free classified that allow people to advertise their sites. The advertisement usually last for 1 day. However, there are a number of FFA sites that allow the advertisements to last for 6 months – 1 year. Listing your website at the FFA classified is likely to ruin your ranking. This is because FFA (Free for All) list all kinds of illegal sites such as pornography, gambling, and etc. Due to this fact, listing your sites on the FFA (Free for All) classified is counted as associating with bad neighborhood. If your site is listed in a few FFA (Free for All) sites, it probably won’t affect you. If your site is listed on many FFA sites, there is a high chance that the search engine will penalize you. When the search engine penalize your site, all your pages will not index. Your traffic volume will decrease because people can’t find your website in the search engine.
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