When optimizing your website for better search results, we usually break down the optimization into two phases on site optimization and off site optimization (or on page/off page optimization).
on site optimization is based upon site structure, the text, the code, and the links that comprise your website. This article is going to focus more on off site optimization. Specifically, directory submissions.
Directories are what people used to use before there were search engines. Even the first search engines where mostly directory based. The main idea of off site optimization is to have links back to your site with the anchor text of the keywords you are trying to rank for in the search engines.
Anchor text is the words that you click on to go to a link. Directories are a great way to have any of the major search engines see that other sites are linking to you. However, you want to be careful that you are getting links from quality directories otherwise this may actually hurt your search engine results.
Why You Are Getting All Of Those Non-Sense Comments On Your Legal Blog
If you are like us, you get excited when you see a new comment on your blog. You can’t wait to go see what someone who appreciates your work has written to you.
You click on the comment’s link in your admin panel as your excitement continues to grow and than, in an instant, that wonderful feeling is gone and replaced by confusion. The comment you are looking at doesn’t really seem to make sense or seems way to generic and the name of the person that left it is something like “How To Loose Weight”. You start to wonder how this can have anything to do with what you wrote and what it is there.
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