GoodPRLinks Review

Normally to run a internet driven business we have to work with application developers, web designers, hosting company, seo companies, etc, etc. But managing all of them is not an easy task. But, what if we get all of these services at same place? Here is one company that provides all these things under one roof.

PrimeView is a full service interactive marketing and web development agency based in Phoenix, Arizona. They provides complete internet solutions that include web site design and page layout consultation, web site hosting, online and offline marketing strategies, as well as ecommerce and application development.

This Arizona Web Design Company have 11 years experience in this filed. Their professional and eye caching designs bounds visitors to turn in customers. This is one of the reason that they have worked and working for fortune 500 clients, such as Nissan, National Car Rental and University of Phoenix.

Just to see how it can change your ugly looking site into professional looking site visit this cool before and after gallery.

PrimeView also provides quality search engine optimization service. This company’s top position in all major search engines for their business key words shows how good they are in this field.

Like most people, I also like those eye caching flash animations. But unfortunately search engines are not smart enough to read those .swf files.

Recently I found an article at icontact community about SEM Strategies and fond this:

….. you may see many of them remove that cool-looking piece of media. Not because they’re finally getting over their brand arrogance, but because many search engines won’t read past the .swf extension in the source code.

So, using a plain image (gif/jpeg/png) with keyword in name and in alt tag is far better then using swf. This will also help to drive traffic from search engines for image search.

Normally, swf files file size are much bigger then normal images, which takes more space and eat lots of bandwidth. So, plain image can also save your bandwidth.

Web directories can be powerful in helping ranking in the search engines but be wary as there are many to choose from. They are literally thousands of web directories out there but only a few carry real weight in Google. Going for the cheaper options for your sites will probably not bring the result you would wish over the long term.

I would always emphasise the phrase ‘quality over quantity’ for any SEO campaign.

My favourite top 10 directories are:

1. Yahoo Directory: US$299.00 non-refundable annual fee. Many categories are very, so be careful where you submit.
2. Business.com: $199/year price. Pr 7 has over 65,000 categories. It is a very powerful directory- one of the few directories that actually might send you traffic.
3. BOTW: $79.95 annually recurring review fee. $239.95 one-time review fee.
4. Skaffe.com: $44.99 fee. Permanent. Quality trusted directory. Have many crowded categories so try to find a less congested place to submit your link.
5. Goguides.org: $69.95 Again categories can be very crowded.
6. Massivelinks.com: $24.99 also has a basic plus listing that offer 5 more deep links
7. Joeant.com: $39.99 ( free for editors)
8. STPT: PR7 web directory. Expensive at $99 per year however likely to carry weight in Google.
9. Alive Directory: Offers permanent and yearly listing offers. For regular/ yearly the price is $49.95 per year and permanent $149.95.
10. Aviva Directory: It not just offers quality links but also has plenty of good quality content. Regular links are $49.99 per year.

The following is a paid review:

Everyone who sells a product or service online or just write blogs, wants traffic to their sites. The main sources of traffic are Search engines, PPC and other advertising programs. PPC and advertising programs can bring some temporary traffic by investing huge amount. But they can’t be compared to search engines traffic. Stats say that people get more then 70% traffic from search engines if the site is well optimized for search engines and have a good ranking in search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

We all need traffic to sell our products or services online. Search engines are always the best source of traffic. After search engines, PPC (pay per click) programs can help to increase traffic and sales. PPC programs allow us to bid on certain keywords and our ads displayed at relevant sites their network. Read the rest of this entry »

I have collected a list of directories which were announced last month at DigitalPoint forums. About 30 % of those new directories were on expired domains with PageRank 1-4. Since most of new directories offer free review for regular listings, so, I thought submitting to such directories, I may get some advantages over other new directories which have no PageRank.

So, I began to submit to the directories which have some PR. But I surprised finding that 70 % of such directories were just deleted. Most of the domains were parked at domain parking sites or have site with different niche.

What are the aims of such domain owner? Why are they starting a directory and after one or two weeks they deletes them? Here are few answers of the question:

• In this way they might just want to make some quick dollars, nothing else. These types of directories take few bucks for featured listing and after few days just shut down their directory.
• One another reason could be that they find it hard to maintain a directory.
• They got another niche from which they can get more money then directories.
• Or, simply, sold the domain.

So, if you are submitting your site to directory which is on expired domain avoid submitting your site as featured listing. You may lost what you are spending for the featured listing.

The following is a paid review:

Recently I was searching for a forum where I can get some help for my few question related to Internet Marketing and advertising. I found few good one but Platinax forum was what I was really looking for.

Platinax Business Forum is a complete forum for web entrepreneurs. They have almost all boards to discuss various aspects of business. from ‘Start-ups & ideas’ to ‘Advertising and sales’, including ‘Business Law’, ‘Internet Marketing’, ‘Search Engine Optimization’ and lots of other useful forums like Web Development, Economics and Finance.

Here is brief information of some good forums Platinax Business Forums have:

Most of the members of this forum are established web entrepreneurs and are very helpful. They exactly know what you want.

You are a webmaster or small-business owner, when ever we create a site our first target is to get traffic. Source of traffic are search engines, media publicity, press releases, PPC advertising and few other. But most of traffic comes from search engines. If your site is not appearing on top search results for your product or service then your all investments on sites is worthless.

You need to have knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), if you don’t know anything about it then you have to hire an SEO company or use some online tools or programs which help you to do SEO for your site yourself. It’s not possible for everyone to spend lots of money for hiring SEO companies, if you are a new webmaster or small-business owner. But you can use online programs for self SEO.

SoloSEO Review is such program that helps you in self SEO. SoloSEO provides almost all tools you need for SEO.

• Keyword Management tool: Tool to find and manage keywords, which is foundation of SEO.
• Content Tracking: Tool to optimize your content including Meta tags, titles and file names
• Link Building: Tools to build backlinks, managing backlinks. This tool also helps to count backlinks and know strength of backlinks etc.

You will see result of your hard work very soon. Most interesting part of this program is that you don’t have to pay too much to use it. You can also take a free 15 days trial.

Sponsored Post:

I am providing quality directory submission service on various webmasters forums and have some good feedback. My clients always ask me various questions regarding directory submissions. One of those questions is:

“I have new site and want to submit it to 500 directories. Will my site penalized by search engines for having 100s of back links in short period?”

I never said I am SEO expert but for client satisfaction I searched on various webmasters forum and search engines. Here is what answer I got:

All directories don’t activate your links on same time. A directory takes 2 days to 6 weeks, even 6 months to approve and activate a link. So, all back links from directories may takes up to 6 months to be active.

Let if 20% of your links approved in first week and cached by search engines then you will get 100 back links from 500 submissions. If the site is old and already has some back links then it’s not any issue but may be problem for new sites.

So, I will say that you should not use more then 200 submissions for your new site. First go for 200 submission plan, and then wait few days till back link updates. Then you can choose 500 or more submissions plans.

It is personal thoughts maybe I’m wrong. Expert’s thoughts are welcomed on this topic.