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Kynduvme,

Here is a list of recommended directories by SeoMoz.

http://www.seomoz.org/directories

I just bought a link from the directory business.com and botw.org.  Both seemed to be reputable and all of my top competitors are listed with them.

Boo

I have seen that most responses to that questions over time have been the slash line that separates words in the title. Not a dash but the slated vertical line.

Keri,

I have only asked a few questions over the past year but they were excellent responses.  I appreciate the high quality answers from professionals at SEOmoz.  I will miss this service and valued it greatly but I am sure you will add additional top notch features in the future.

Thanks

Boo

Gary,

Very entrepreneurial and creative way to get some good SEO while bootstrapping.  It seems like a great idea if you have some way both parties can track and see total conversions. It might help you attract someone if you define conversions and how would it be tracked.  Seems like lots of folks would be interested in something like that....especially if lucrative! Good luck.

I would also not dismiss hanging out around here and picking up bits and pieces of SEO gems.  This is a great site and could be very "lucrative" for you to gradually learn a few things here and there.  I have learned a lot in the past 60 days and it has paid off huge dividends so far!  Very happy with the SEOmoz product and services.

Boo

So I am trying to figure out how my google rankings dropped from 3 to 9 This past week.  Could it be the new HTTPS security issue?  My site was created in HTTP not HTTPS.  Is this an easy fix? Can I hire someone on this site to fix this?

I just paid someone to submit me to a few directories and I saw were I was listed on one of them today.  The url page authority of where I was listed was a "1" with zero moz trust and zero moz authority.  The root domain authority is a "69".  Is page authority or domain authority the most important for links? I believe all the directories I was submitted to have url page authority of "1". ( I watched a video yesterday and I think the head guy said that page authority was most important but I am not sure.

Can anyone take a look at the site and offer suggestions as to what I can do. My visibility went from 13% to 2% over the past two months.

I had 800 organic terms prior to this now I am falling off a cliff. Have no idea what happened.  I just switched over to HTTPS 3 weeks ago and it has helped a little.

EGOL........Good stuff! Thanks! Interesting perspective on both the little things that lead to conversion and on conversion itself. So easy to put cart before the horse in this industry for us neophytes.

I am looking for a junior llnkbuilder but I noticed you only have 5 root links on your site.

I have asked this question before and was told to BEWARE.

If you can find someone to create links in RELEVANT and good ranking directories and forums etc then it might be good.  I was told to avoid those who just submitted to lots of directories. I am in the same boat as you right now.  Been staying up late doing my own stuff.  For me it is going to probably be a slow road because of reputation management in regards to links. I am a novice so hopefully some other guys will answer this question better.

UtahTiger

Aeronet...I am not sure if that fixed the problem but now we are ranking higher than ever.  Thanks for your input!!! I was scared.  

Big companies hire computer savvy guys to run scripts and  to take pricing from thousands of products from hundreds of competitors so they can undercut them or at least be competitive with them and use their strong brand name.  This might be one of the reasons for this practice.

lol....no it was not intentional....:)

without.....but when you click on them both are listed with the #!.

Yesterday for some reason my twitter account rankings went through the roof and I am ranked for many keywords for my twitter account now.  I am not sure what happened but am very happy about it.

Depends on where you are at in the SEO timeline.  I just started and made one comment on a site and now I get more traffic from that site than several of my paid boards combined. If the comment is on a high traffic board and is very relevant that it could pay big dividends for a new website like mine.  On the other hand there may be other great ways to continue developing SEO for the long term.  For the short term though..this one comment has been gold for my newbie site.

Boo

William,

The 6 weeks I have been around, I have found it to be a wealth of information and everything has worked fine for me. I think the site is basically for sharing insights collaboratively with other SEO folks and webmasters.  Everything has worked fine for me but I am a novice and may not be utilizing everything properly yet.

I have not tried to contact customer support before but I think most issues are resolved on the question and answer board.

Based on results for my "new website" that didn't have but a few links..... and being new to seo for my company....... I highly recommend industry specific directories and some high quality general directories.  Not being experienced I may be walking the edge but for a new website it gave our website a very big jump across all SEOmoz factors.

My Domain authority(doubled) and Page Authority (33%)  just shot through the roof because I added several new reputable high ranking directories.  I also added two or three industry specific links.

Two of the best general directories BOTW.com and Business.com and one industry directory have not been added yet for some reason.  . Hopefully those will show up soon and help me a improve a little next month.  It has been an exciting journey so far on this new adventure in SEO.

Eating popcorn in anticipation with this one.

Excellent Question!

My site started out at 18 and in 12 months I have increased it to 38 with the help of suggestions on this site.  My goal is to hit 40 by the end of the year.  I did this by

#1 Created 22 new root linking domains. (including a few paid from the list of suggested domains on SEOmoz.

#2 Changed my URL's to be more keyword rich

#3 Improved SEO on site with Optimization tools on SEOmoz

#4 Improved content

It has been fun and exciting.  I  know that if I improve on all the SEOmoz recommended metrics that it will help my search rankings and gradually help me against the competition.

New Things in process to get us to the 50 mark!

#1 Blog

#2 Better landing pages

#3 Web development

#4 More links to pages deeper in site

#5 Continued optimization of webpages on site. etc

Boo

I think it is worth it.  I have to be a part of this cutting edge community because of all the changes we are doing to our website. I don't want to have to go back and change lots of stuff later on.    It has been great and I bug the heck out of all these professionals on here.  I like associating with all these smart folks.  Plus it is kinda fun to learn a whole new world of information. Hoping that some of there smarts rubs off on me somehow.

I have a similar set up and we are going to do landing pages on every page and work towards getting higher conversions.  We will also plan on building trust somehow and having social sharing buttons.

Boo.