How to Save Money When Promoting Your Business

Long before search engines made their appearance on the web, people used website directories to find websites that could provide the answers to their problems and questions. Today, website directories are not used nearly as often to find websites, although they still get used by some people. You can and will get some free traffic directly from directory listings, but the biggest benefit is the one way inbound links that you can develop for your site.

Many people have a hard time getting more website traffic with free web directories, so here are 3 Big Tips for Building Link Popularity with Free Directories.

Look for High PR Directories- Just as you want to make priority use of high PR article directories, you want to seek out high PR link directories as well. The higher the PR, the more value the link will add to your website.

Look for Sites with High Traffic Ranking- Many directories get huge amounts of traffic, which means that your links could get some extra attention. While link building is the primary reason for directory submissions, I have gotten thousands of hits a month in direct traffic from some of these sites.

Use Keywords in title and Description- When you submit your link you will be asked for a title and a description. Using your sites primary keywords in your posting will help it get you more traffic, and because the title is generally used for the link itself, you will add relevancy to the link. Anchor text also matter here, just as with article marketing.