Submit your sites to directories with high rankings and get valuable backlinks to your sites. Before submitting follow a couple of tips:.
- Submit to two or three each day – don’t mass submit, Google will smell a spam rat
- Make each submission unique when it comes to descriptions
- Select the most appropriate category
- Be selective – you do not have to submit your home page
Directories that offer free submissions often require a link back, however, because they are free the backklink can be quite valuable.
http://www.dmoz.org/ 8
http://www.la-ma.org/ 6
http://www.mxdu.com/ 6
http://www.jayde.com/ 6
http://www.mygreencorner.com/ 6
http://www.ghinmeca.com/ 5
http://directory.classifieds1000.com/ 5
http://www.concensus.org/ 5
http://www.directorydice.com/ 5
http://www.domaining.in/ 5
http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com/ 5
http://www.illumirate.com/ 5
http://www.info-listings.com/ 5
http://www.publimix.net/ 5
http://searchsight.com/Directory.htm 5
http://www.uc33.com/ 5
http://www.amray.com/ 4
http://www.a1webdirectory.org/ 4
http://www.boshuda.com 4
http://www.businesspagesupdate.co.uk/ 4
That list should keep you busy for a day or two.
Well, having just updated my WordPress to 2.6 I must say it is not smooth sailing. If you have upgraded then i suggest you check your permalinks. Just click on any of your posts and make sure they open up in their own page.
A lot of blogs are finding that the permalinks are not working after the upgrade. If your blog is affected, you will need to go into the permalinks options – settings/permalinks from your dashboard – near the bottom of the page are two new additions – categories and tags. Just enter some text in each – the words categories and tags will do – save and if you have wp-cache enabled, clear the cache and try the links again. It should be fine.
Otherwise, the upgrade seems to be working fine – however your the reader so you can tell me if you notice anything unusual. A few neat things about 2.6 – you will see a bubble on the Plugins link telling you of any updates pending – that is handy. Before switching themes you can preview in private before sending it public – that is handy.
Let me know if you come across any problems with the update.
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The upgrade to this new theme is almost complete – a couple of little quirks I need to iron first. At least WordPress makes it a little easier. If anyone knows how to get the comments activated on the static pages let me know. That is my biggest problem for now.
Upgrading to a new them is not just switching themes in your WordPress themes section. There is far more to it than that. I picked up a few tips from a post at Blog Marketing Journal titled WordPress Tips To Help With Site Maintenance.
If you have registered for third party entities like Feedburner, MyBlogLog, Google Analytics and so on, you have to be sure you transfer every snippet of code from one theme across to the next. There is at least one easy way to do it. Perhaps someone should create a plugin that handles all these snippets for you.
The easiest way I found to transfer from one theme to another is to have two WordPress theme editing windows open at the same time. One window with the current theme and the other window with the new theme. From there it is just a matter of checking each file and copying and pasting each snippet of code into the new themes files.
Make any other changes you need then send it live. Let me know what you think. There are still a few little tweaks I want to make – otherwise I am pretty happy with it. WordPress is still my preferred platform at present.
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