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With all the shenanigans Google's been up to in their very obvious attempt to conquer the Internet and destroy online businesses, it's often hard to know what to do in the way of backlinks. Even for those of us who basically know most of the options.
One of the few truly "safe" areas I see for backlinking is still directory submissions -- assuming the God Google hasn't made them off limit. I'm not talking article directories -- I'm talking about the likes of Yahoo! directory, Starting Point, Business.com, Ezilion, Best of the Web and many others.
Most of these are "paid" directories. You pay either a one-time registration fee or a recurring annual fee that can range from probably $29.95 to $299.00.
The benefit to getting listed with a select number of these directories is that rather than seeing your website move up a position or two from ranking efforts you make, which is normally the case, getting listings from these directories will often move your website up 10 to 35 positions within one to two weeks depending on the directories you get listed with.
If I've been hired to get a website to the first page of Google, getting listed with high authoritative directories is one of the first recommendations I will make.
Maybe this worked in the 90s but I'd like to see anyone make it to the top of anything using just paid directories. With this thinking I can see why you are in the live transfer business.
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