Directories Submission is very important task for promoting your website in search engines. In Search Engine City here I am giving you some important and useful tips on directories submission work. When you start your directories submission work at that time how to keep record of your directories submission work with excel sheet and which tools you should to use for increase the speed of your directories submission work.

If you are keep record of your directories submission work with excel sheet then it is very useful to you when you are working directories submission work for your clients and also useful for own websites work.

Sometimes you get the list of directories from other websites at that time in that list there is so many directories like Reciprocal Directories, Paid Directories, Free Directories and also Link Pages. At that time you should to categories your list of directories in the category of Free, Paid, Reciprocal and other so next time when you will start the work of link submission at that time you can easily submit your links in free directories without wasting your time. Now here I am explaining how to keep record of your directories task with excel sheet.

You should to create 8 main columns in Excel Sheet

1. Sr. No.
2. URL
3. Submit URL (Optional)
4. Page Rank
5. Free / Reciprocal / Paid / Other
6. Search Engine / Directories / Link Page / Other
7. Submission Date
8. Status (Submitted / Not Submitted)
9. Remarks

After the completion of submission of directories you should to categories your directories list in the following categories in excel like:

Through above image you can understand that how to categories list in excel sheet.

When you receives an email of approved link submission at that time you should to create one more excel sheet with the details of approved link submission.

You should to create 7 columns in excel sheet for create list of approved link submission

1. Sr. No.
2. URL
3. Page Rank
4. Category
5. Anchor Text
6. Date of Approval
7. Remarks

Through this document you can get the idea that how much your link submission is approved. In case of approval sometimes we get the email of approval from editors of the directories and sometimes we can’t get the email of approval.

These types of documents are becomes useful for you when you are working for your clients, when you want to send the working reports of directories submission to your clients.

If you do your directories submission task manually and if your typing speed is slow at that time it becomes very time consuming work for you.

There are two useful Firefox extensions for your directories submission work. One is Roboform and second is InFormEnter.

Roboform :

RoboForm is Top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling.

Features of Roboform:

• Memorizes your passwords and Logs You In automatically.
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• Backs up your passwords, Copies them between computers.
• Gives you one set of bookmarks and passwords for IE, Firefox, Mozilla, AOL, MSN, Avant, MaxThon browsers.

You can download Roboform Firefox extension from here

InFormEnter :

InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted – no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.

You can download InFormEnter Firefox Extension from here

Hope this information is becomes useful for your directories submission works.

Generally Every SEO is trying hard for getting listing of their websites in the major search engines. As a SEO you all knows that Google giving more weight to that link which comes from the .edu and .gov. domain.

Now here I want to share some tips on how to get links from .edu and .gov domain.

First Method :

You should to do web design or web development for educational institution, college or school and also for the government. After creation of website you can place your website link at the footer of the website under the tag “Website Design By : XYS” or “Website Developed By : ABC” whatever.

But I think this method becomes very costly for us for getting only one link from the site of .edu or .gov domain.

Second Method :

This method is useful for finding you the directories and ADD URL option in .edu and .gov sites. If you want to search those site which has a facility of add URL, then you should to use this search operator in Google.

site:.edu “Add URL”

site:.edu “Submit URL”

site:.gov “Add URL”

site:.gov “Submit URL”

Through this command you can find the list of those .edu or .gove sites which are providing the service of URL submission.

Third Method :

In this method you can get the link from the blog of educational and government site. But in this method be careful you should to give genuine comment related to blog. You can search educational blog or government blog through this command.

site:.edu “blog”

Generally you should to give the comment on your business service related blog. E.g. if you have the website related to “Health” then you should to search health relate educational blog through this command.

site:.edu “blog” “health”

Fourth Method :

In this method can get links through Forums. You should to participate in the educational forum (business related educational). You should to make discussion in the forum and place your signature in the footer of your post you can get the benefit of .edu links or .gov links.

You can find the educational or government forums through this command.

site:.edu “forum”

and if you want to find forum of particular category then you should to use this command.

site:.edu “forum” “health”

Hope this information is useful for getting backlinks from .edu and .gov sites.

Today, here we are discussing about the types of link exchange and what are the sources of for getting links. Generally there are two types of Link Exchange. One is active link exchange and second is passive link exchange. Here all the details I have mentioned in the below chart:

Active Link Exchange means we are doing work actively for getting link for our website. In Active Link Exchange we are doing three types of link exchange.

1. One Way Link Exchange

2. Two way Link Exchange

3. Three way Link Exchange

In one way link exchange we are getting one way link from other website, but we are not giving a link to the other website, that is called as a one way link exchange. We can get one way links from Directories Submission, Blog Posting, Article Posting, Press Release Submission and Social Bookmarking.

Two way link exchange is also known as a Reciprocal Link Exchange. Reciprocal Link Exchange is doing on the basis of mutual understand of two potential link partners. In Reciprocal Link Exchange potential link partners place a link of our website and in return we have to place link of potential link partners on our website. Reciprocal Link Exchange is good for getting listing of our website in Google. But now in present as per new Google Webmaster Guideline, It is advisable that we should not do excessive reciprocal link exchange for promote our website. We can do reciprocal link exchange, but excessive reciprocal link exchange is increase the chances of our website getting penalize.

Three way link exchange, we can do when we have a 2 websites. In three way link exchange we are offer for placing a link of potential link partners to our popular site A. and in return we asking to potential link partners for placing a link of our Site C on their Site B. (Site B means potential link partners). Three way link exchange is very effective link exchange. The main benefit of three way link exchange is that we are getting a one way link from potential link partners.

Now we are going to discussion about Passive link exchange. Passive link exchange means it is a link exchange, in which we are not doing link exchange actively for our website. But we are getting links from other potential link partners without offering a proposal for link exchange. Link Bait is part of passive link exchange.

Link Bait means Useful or entertaining web content which compels users to link to it. So if your website has a unique and useful content then other potential link partners place the link of your website on their website without offering any proposal for link exchange.

Hope this all information is becomes useful for all people who are engaged in the field of SEO and SEM.