Free Web Directory Submissions offer Real Results for Getting Traffic
January 3, 2009 – 10:06 am
I’ve had an interesting time this afternoon going through and comparing numbers from several places. I try not to get bogged down in statistics. (Google Analytics gives GREAT information, but you could loose DAYS there analyzing it.) It is good to just see what things you’re doing seem to affect your traffic and that’s exactly what I was analyzing. I have several sites that I had finished free directory submissions through Directory Maximizer I love their service – you pay 14 cents per submission, can have multiple anchors/description for your site, keep track of where the site’s been submitted, pace submissions…. anyway back to the point at hand:
I was essentially comparing the sites that had been submitted through directory maximizer to free web directories versus the google analytics count of visitors for the past month. There was a definite correlation between sites getting more traffic to sites that had been submitted to directories. In fact, after throwing out my outliers (two sites that are performing better per directory submission or much below the average for the others.) After throwing out the top and bottom sites, the average was 7 visitors per month per web submission.
I’ve already requested more submissions for another of my sites and I’m going to be curious to track the progress. I plan to continue with the directory submissions until I max out each of my sites (have them submitted to all available free directories through directory maximizer.
Some things that could bias my results: The sites that I’ve submitted to more directories were also sites that I’ve worked heavily to promote through other methods. I’ll be interested to see if the averages follow suit.
Is my traffic coming from directories? Not necessarily, but the sites I’ve spent the most time submitting seem to do the best in the search results.
For a free directory you might want to check out the Big Umbrella Web Directory.
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