First of all what matter is a Quality Inbound Link from different websites which are related to your niche. Which means that a backlink from a related website even of less pagerank would be helpful to your blog when compared to a link from a very high page rank website of a irrelevant niche. In case of Web Directories the situation is quite different because these are the websites which organize all the websites on the web in different categories. Now getting listed on these relevant categories is useful because these are quality related backlinks to your websites.

In the recent years, most website directories are considered to be bad and if your website is listed on these your website can even get penalized which is the reason you should decide and research a lot before getting listed into them. There is no point submitting your website to thousands of web directories and getting listed in those , whose pages are not even indexed in the search engines, also these new directories would not have any quality backlinks which means that its a total waste of time getting listed into these.

Finding a Good Web Directory :
I would personally suggest submitting your websites to directories which are established ie which were launched years back and which are still running on the same goal of organizing different websites. These can be helpful to your websites rankings and using the right Anchor Text on these web directories in order to rank in the top of the search engines. Considering Page Rank of the directory while submitting is not the right criteria because the Page Rank would go to 0 anytime and there is no guarantee about this, hence taking PR as a single criteria while submitting is wrong. You need to check out the buzz about the directly all over the web, the backlinks to these directories using Yahoo! & Google linkdomain queries, the Alexa or Compete Rank to know if these directories get some decent traffic.

In the year 2006 i started a web directory called as Global Internet Index which has around 6000 different categories and a lot of information we have posted on different blogs under this website in order to help the visitors find the right information. At gii.in there are different listing options ranging from free to paid because the website approval does take some time & efforts in order to review them and there is no point in running a free web directory and then closing it at the end of the year while domain expires. There are many other good web directories which have been up from few years like botw.org, dir.yahoo.com, Dmoz etc which are really worth submitting to.

This post is regarding the web directories which list different websites and dont confuse yourself with the Blog Directories which are specifically for Web Blogs, we will write more about Blog Directories soon. Stay Tuned!

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A Service from Komli, which is India’s first open audience measurement service offering you with reports on site visitors demographics and audience characteristics. ViziSense helps publishers, marketers and agencies with competitive intelligence about audiences for over thousands of websites. ViziSense helps publishers with an independent measurement system, enables advertisers to access and understand their online audience with precision, and agencies to plan better media buys. ViziSense is owned and managed by Komli Media India Pvt Ltd, India ’s leading Ad network. It’s a free tool which media buyers, advertisers and publishers can use to get audience level data about any website.

All these Reports are generated with their methodology and if you are looking for accurate stats, you need to create a free account with them and add their tracking code on all your website pages similar to Google Analytics and get reports for the same. I already signed up with them a month back and added the tracking code, and while checking out the reports i have given this message – ‘Data is not available due to an internal error. If the error persisits report it at support@vizisense.com. ‘ which means that this service should still be called as a Beta version because of bugs and non-tracking.

Here are a few screenshots of the Reports generated by Vizisense :

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• Mega Download
  This is a really sleek and simple search engine which gives you a look like the Google Search Engine with option to search on rapidshare too at the same time. On a small search with a few keywords, i could not get the right search results but still they were quite good results, the reason for this may be less uploaded files on Megaupload when compared to Rapidshare. Oh yes dont forget this website is NSFW because the search result pages have a lot of adult advertisements.
• 4 Megaupload
  The moment you enter this website you will find a links farm with millions of files in their database. The homepage shows you the last 200 searches made on this search engine which can be helpful to the visitors. If you have uploaded some files in Megaupload.com website and you want other users to download them then check out the Submit Megaupload Links section where you can submit the direct links and they will be shown on the result pages.
• Loading Vault
  Another search engine similar to the above 4Megaupload search engine offering you multiple search features with the latest searches shown on the homepage. This website offers you with better search results because they distinguish them into .rar, .zip, .htm, .mp3 etc giving you a clear idea what is the file extension before downloading them. Overall performing the same job but with different results which means that when you dont find your required file on the above websites you can try out with loading vault.
• Files Tube
  A search engine designed to find files from websites like megaupload, rapidshare, mediafire and more. You get a simple search box with options to select the entension while making any web search. I did a quick search and found that most of the results were from rapidshare followed by megaupload.com , this search engine seems to be the biggest of all by maintaining a 500 alexa rank. You can directly download the files from FilesTube which means that you can by pass those time locks and limitations.

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But now here comes the question.
1. Why is that having such a low alexa rank ?
2. Are you not promoting that blog?
3. Why is it not having much advertisements there.

This is a very general question of a relatively new blogger. Also please consider this as my attempt to make friendship with you as I do with many other bloggers. – Girish

Lets start straight with the answer to your 3 questions, first of all i didnt promote this website previously and this is the first time i have started talking about it after adding around a hundred articles to it which were really useful for the readers, rather than some useless articles. This website was originally registered late last year but left unused with just 2-3 articles in it. Here are the answers to your questions in detail.

1. Why is that having such a low alexa rank ?
   Ans – Since this website has pretty less traffic as its in the launch stage and has very very less number of visitors which Alexa can track, hence you are viewing almost no alexa rank. As the promotion goes on for this website you can see the alexa rank going up and then settling down somewhere around 1 lakh figure, since iam not going for any paid advertising and only word of mouth publicity at the moment. Will try to write about makemoneynext.com for a few more days and then totally wait for traffic from the search engines which is obviously free and long term. Currently the website has recieved a Alexa rank of 303,711 which is quite good considering its recently started.
   
   If you look into the above stats of Alexa, you will find that the alexa has started assigning rank to this website from May 2nd and for a week’s duration because of the launch post the number of visitors have gone up and a monthly average has already reached near 1 lakh rank. You can check out after a few days when this rank would be stable at some decent level when we can know the correct rank.
2. Are you not promoting that blog?
   Ans – I generally try to stay away from paid advertising for content based websites because we are not planning for adsense arbitrage and i always seek for 100% free traffic from the search engines which stays for long and you dont have to work in the future once the website is established. It does take up a good amount of time when you are looking for Organic traffic but its worth the time, since at the end of a term your total investment would be your time and the efforts would get your results for long term. If you are offering some services or selling some products online, then its better to go for paid advertising at the launch stage itself because you are expecting some sales from the initial stage itself, but in case of getting organic traffic you need dedication and patience towards any website.

   I will be promoting this new website using all the available free link building ideas which still work and implement them slowly, because excessive of anything can give you a negative effect on your website or blog. Blog Commenting, Article Submissions & Directory Submissions in quality paid directories does help your website and its always recommended to go for these options.

3. Why is it not having much advertisements there.
   Ans – Since its a very new website i have just setup Google Adsense ads on this website because they display 100% contexual ie related ads and once this website grows i will be setting up more ad options. The next step would be add Affiliate links within the articles, where the users would signup with different programs and in return help me make commissions through affiliate networks. Since this is a fairly new website having huge number of ads on the website is not recommended and once the website reaches a decent number of visitors , somewhere around 500 visitors every day we can go ahead with one more ad placed somewhere in the header or the sidebar. Currently iam not looking for making the maximum money, because when you are building and running a new website you should think about long term returns and keep atleast 6 months time in your hand before you start making money.

Here are few suggestions for getting traffic to your blog :
1. Setup minimum Ads on your New Blog.
2. Create some Targets on your Subscribers Count – Say 500 Subscribers by year end.
3. Comment on related blogs for link building & getting visitors.
4. Keep working on the design part and make sure its not broken in any browser.
5. Create all Feed Subscription options and display them on your blog.
6. Visit related forums and ask the forum members for suggestions for your new blog in order to get visitors, suggestions, reviews, backlinks.
7. Announce your blog from your already established blog and get visitors visiting your established blog to your new blog.
8. Keep updating the new blogs stats in the public, and keep comparing them with the previous months results to know the amount of success you have recieved.

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• Through different PPC Programs – As you know there are numerous pay per click programs through which you can make money. You can easily signup with them and get accounts and post their ad codes on your Jobs related websites and monetize them. If this option does not really work out well we can always go for the next options but if you take a look at many Employment related blogs they promote PPC Ads because these are Contexual ads and always serve the most related ads , which give them good CTR and income per click(CPC).
• Promoting Affiliate Offers – There are many advertisers who are looking to promote their affiliate products on their blogs and websites and make money through the sales or lead based signup’s. Check out for options like naukri.com affiliate, monster.com affiliate programs etc where you get paid on the following basis – For each new resume posted: $1.00, For each new My Monster account created: $0.50 You can directly check out all the top job portals and blogs and contact them for their affiliate programs or partner programs which you can promote and make money through them. Since your job websites have targetted traffic , monetizing them through afiliates would be a good option. Get all their banner & text links and add them on your websites.
• CPM Networks – There are many CPM Advertising Networks like Tribal Fusion, Burst Media, Komli, Adbrite etc which you can signup and post their ads on your websites or blogs which get huge traffic. I have been using these networks and displaying their ads on my blog which always add up a good amount of supplementary revenue. In these kind of ads you get compulsory revenue because they pay for you all the impressions and whenever a visitor visits your websites and the ads are displayed, you get paid for the same.
• Text Link Ads – You can directly sell text ads on your websites which can be placed within the content, sidebar or any other location of your websites. Make sure you add a rel=”nofollow” tag to your Link Tags because as per the current system, selling links is not allowed, but when you are going to add a ‘nofollow’ tag, you are on the safe side and you dont have to worry about any kinds of penalties. There are many websites like text-link-ads.com , linkworth.com , tnx.net etc where you can join and sell links through their networks. You get fixed amount of money monthly through these companies every month.
• Sponsored Posts – There are many companies which offer paid blog posts which you can publish on your blogs and make money through them. Based on the blogs value ascertained on multiple factors like alexa traffic rank, google page rank, content quality, blog interaction, technorati rank, link popularity etc. You can setup your price for your advertisers which can be proportional based to the number of subscribers you have on your blog. Generally advertisers pay atleast 10$ for a blog post with the pay per post blog networks taking up 30-50% of commission. Try out with Sponsored Reviews, Review Me, Pay Per Post etc and start selling paid posts on your jobs related blogs.
• Paid Newsletters – Generally most jobs related blogs or portals have a good number of subscribers who are mostly job applicants looking for all the fresh openings in the market. Hence you can setup resource based job newsletters with affiliate links or banners within them. You can setup media kits on your websites with pricing based on your total subscribers because the advertiser would be paying you for the total views they would get from these compaigns. Setup email newsletters and send them through online softwares like Aweber, Constant Contact
• Paid Surveys & Polls – If you have a good amount of visitorship which actively read your website or blog, you can setup paid surveys or polls on your website and get paid for the total votes or fixed amount of rates. Vizu Answers is a company which offers you with multiple poll features and option to setup your own polls. You setup custom polls on your websites/blogs and then get paid for them. Try out with questions which can be helpful to your visitors.
• Paid Job Boards – Personforce is a company which helps you to setup job boards and make money through them. You can create a new job board on your website or blogs at a sub domain like jobs.amitbhawani.com which can addup supplementary income to you at no costs. You need to become a member of companies like Personforce which keep sending job listings on your small job board and get paid for your share. When you directly sell a job listing on your board you get paid 80% revenue sharing and when the company sends you a advertiser’s listing then you get a 50% cut, still not bad when you dont have to do any promotion, since they promote your jobs board.

These are some easy options to make money while you are running a jobs board, which you can implement and start getting some big checks from them. I will be writing more on how to develop content for a blog posts, Overcoming Similar/Duplicate content problem in job websites, how to attract advertisers etc which can be helpful to you when you are still in plans to start this kind of website.

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At the same time there has been a huge amount of confusion on the total number of blogs here but the conclusion was never given with many bloggers saying that Technorati claims of 100 million+ blogs on the web but no statistics or count confirmations. These all numbers can be a raw estimate based on the total number of Hostnames and Active websites.

With the increase in the number of Bloggers and web demand, it seems like the numbers are bound to increase at a higher rate and we expect that new TLD’s would be introduced to allow new domain registrations. What do you feel about the total sites count on the whole Earth.

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I registered the domain name on my birthday and started the blog on 04-04-2007 and added a total of 3 blog posts within the first week which includes a happy birthday, seo meet story & Tips for Getting Quick Visitors from Search Engines. If you see the WayBackMachine web archive results for this domain name it would show that this blog was updatd around once a week and we didnt have a lot of content, but i used to write some random stuff in order to update this blog with different topics.

In the beginning i use to blog about some personal topics and reviews of some products & services i used but didnt go for professional blogging because i didnt believe a personal domain name would reach a huge audience and i wanted to make sure that the other projects i was working on would reach the top and i tried to ignore this blog, but in October 2007 when i recieved around 9000 visitors i felt that this blog has now started ranking for some content which was posted months back and i guess its the right time now to start working on this.

From Nov 2007, i seriously started blogging at AmitBhawani.com and by the month end saw a 3x increase in the traffic. I was into many other business like Web Development, Search Engine Optimization & Web Hosting. Hence, i didnt have much idea on how to quickly gain blog readers except getting top search engine rankings and gaining organic traffic. I tried to optimize the blog to the best and maintain top search rankings in order to gain a lot of free traffic and was slowly getting successful in these experiments.

By the end of 2007 this blog started recieving around 1500 visitors every day, though the feed readers were very less because the most traffic was from search engines ie completely free and no investment. With the gain in traffic, i started setting up feedburner email subscription options and also other feed readers options for the blog readers to easily subscribe to this blog and recieve the latest updates. The FeedBurner Subscription box was setup on 07-09-2007 with just 3 readers and at the end of the year 2007 this blog had a total of , not such a big number but still we should be happy with the results you get.

Blog Feed Readers 2007 End :

By the beginning of 2008, i started writing reviews of several web services, internet tools, laptop guides, mobile phone & digital camera reviews and tried to setup a blog which had a wide variety of information along with some tech news. Slowly the traffic started increasing along with the feed readers and this gave me a idea to get a custom blog design which i got inspired by another blog and implemented the design, after few days i recieved multiple complaints on going for a lighter theme, which was activated.

Blog Feed Readers 2008 November 15 :

Now after around a years time of serious blogging, you can see that the blog has reached almost to my targets of high traffic, high amount of subscribers and many mentions around the web and also in offline media. This blog was mentioned month back in Times of India – Pune Edition, Eenadu Newspaper and in many blog meets. The subscribers have been growing on an average of around 50 readers every day from the past 4 months and by 2009 end iam sure this blog would cross 20000 readers who mainly subscribe to this blog using email subscription form and get the updates regularly.

This blog now recieved xxxxx visitors everyday and has multiple blogs with a total readership soon to reach 5 digits in total. The Traffic is also increasing with every passing month and you can see the more traffic you get the better revenue you can expect from a blog and i hope this blog reaches 4 Digits Alexa rank by the end of 2008 year.

Our Company : We run 2 companies ie Digital World Solutions[Web Development + Seo Company] & HostBrains Softwares Pvt Ltd with a team of 9 which handles all our different websites & blogs and from 2009 we would be launching 50 serious blog on multiple topics and try to achieve all our targets in a planned manner. Our team includes Content Writers who write for our network of blogs , Trained Professional SEO team who handle the SEO part and Content Management Guys who look over all the blogs in terms of setting up schedules, updating the content, managing and upgrading regularly. If you are interested in setting up serious blogs then you can always contact us and get professional services, because you never lose money when you invest online unlike offline business, because in offline business you can expect 5-50% maximum returns , but in Online ventures you can always expect 100%-1000% return with your website’s becoming your assets.

Do let me know if you run a blog and are looking for different ideas and also ways for increasing your traffic, we are always happy to help you out and also offer free suggestions but only if you are going to believe us and implement them.

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The Manual job is ended now and you just need to enter your website URL & the keywords you want to monitor and your job ends, because the following process is all automated and you just need to compare your stats, this is also very useful when you want to analyze your competitor’s rankings.

Download this software SerpSpy and install in on your computer, by default you get the trial version which is limited to 10 keywords, but in the full version you can get unlimited keywords , automatic scheduled reports.

Search Engines Tracked :
* Google (.com, .co.uk, .ca, and .com.au)
* Yahoo!
* Microsoft Live
* Ask.com
* Altavista
* Alexa
* AOL

You just need to enter your root URL like http://www.amitbhawani.com and enter upto 10 keywords in the keywords box and click on Go to get started. The crawler starts crawling the search engines and reports with your website’s rankings for your specified keywords with the position and URL which ranks.

Here is a screenshot which i generated after crawling my christmas website. I was analyzing the top keywords it ranked for from my analytics & awstats accounts and started tracking the serps in different search engines. Click on the Report for full view!

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Many of my readers complained about a simple look and less images used in the last theme, which is the reason i planned for a more colourful look which offered everything from usability, better reading experience, easy commenting & comment reading. You can easily surf through all the sections in this blog and also move into other blogs like health, career, pictures, india & auto.

Blog Statistics :
This blog was started in April 2007 on my birthday, but i seriously started full time blogging from October 2007 and now its around a year where the blog has reached 5000+ readers and is daily ready by many readers who reach this blog from different search engines.

Traffic Stats :
Alexa Traffic Rank stats shows that the blog’s traffic is decently improving every passing month and i have setup targets for every year because its very important for you to setup some goals and try to achieve them.

Readers Count :
Though this blog readers are mainly from search engines, finally i have crossed the first milestone of 5000 readers and now my next stop would be at 10000 count which could be by this year end.

I would like to thank all of you readers who have subscribed for the latest updates from this blog and everyone of you who regularly comment on the blog posts and add your views. Please add your views and suggestions for this new theme and do let me know if you would like to contribute in any of our blogs.

Regards
Amit Bhawani

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Blog Name : Bankaholic
Deals in : Finance & Banking Industry
Total Staff : 1 Writer – Johns Wu, Finance Writer – Mark P. Cussen
Income Options : Google Adsense on the wordpress blog’s sidebar , Credit Card Affiliates links used with the posts like best credit cards and i came to know he was getting huge conversions from these , Financial Products Affiliates like BankRate Partner Program under different posts.
Search Engine Rankings :
The Blog has got Sitelinks for multiple keywords because he has setup different sub domains for different categories. Check out the sitelinks/search results for the keyword CD Rates and you can find that the first result is from bankaholics followed by 8 sitelinks related to the same. Other highly searched keywords i found this website ranking was for Money Market Rates, Savings Account Rates & Bank Interest Rates. All these keywords helps out bankaholic get targetted sales/lead conversions.

Traffic Stats : The blog has got a very bad alexa rank which stands at 42k. A very bad number when you compare it to the amount the blog was sold for.

Sale Details : Source – Financial info site BankRate is expanding its financial product listings, as it’s acquiring Bankaholic, which provides info on deposits, savings accounts, and money market accounts. The company will pay $12.4 million up front, with another $2.5 million possible earnout over the next 12 months.
Conclusion : Even if the new owners are able to make up 500k revenue from this blog without any costs then it would take them another 8 years to make up the same amount of money. May be the amount paid is not for the traffic it currently gets but for the domain name + search engine rankings + authority in the domain name + single word domain name which is easy for branding and also bankRate would not have to share any revenues with bankaholics.com if they own it. Another reason would be a high amount of Aweber subscribers who would have converted in the last 2 years resulting in a good base for promoting new financial products in the members list. Anyway this kind of sales are not seen every other day and we hope to see many more like these soon.

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