The Magic of Web Directories

For a few weeks (few means two) or so, I have been focusing quite a lot on my website, Terrell Art Studio. I hope to launch it like a rocket to the top of Google ratings (and other search engine ratings, too - hahahaha) No, really!!

So I paid for professional directory submissions from Greenstalk.com. I just found their banner by "accident" in my images folder. I guess I accidentally deleted their link a few years ago. So I got curious about them, and logged on. Yes, the little directory is still around, and they do submissions to directories.

I took a chance and paid them some cash to submit to 1000 directories! I thought it might send me way higher in the Google Plex ratings. To number one for abstract art? Well, not sure. There is intense competition worldwide there. But 1000 directories are quite a few! And Google likes the directories, apparently.

See, if this is interesting to you at all... The small human edited directories are out there working away by the hundreds of thousands, or more. And Google is so huge, but the internet is much bigger still! I mean it's gigantic, people. Google can use all the help it can get to "qualify" websites. So it depends upon the countless small web directories to pre-qualify the sites, you might say.

Therefore, if I can get into enough of those, it will help my ratings in Notorious G go higher. How do I do it? By submitting my site to many, many web directories. Luckily a lot of them still offer free submissions. If they didn't, it could get very costly, and costly is a dance I can't join right now.

So the directories that accept my site into their system, link to me, and Google sees with with it's giant all knowing searchbot system. It begins to rank my site higher in popularity because a lot of web directories are linked to me. This is the theory.

With my other art site: Abstract Art by Robert Terrell I spent who knows how much time linking to one art website, online gallery and art resource after another. It took oodles and boodles of time, and I only have a PR 3 website to thank for it. Not that great, really.

So I took a little risk and paid the Greenstalk team to do a lot of submissions for me. What a difference I think it is going to make. The inbound link checkers (you can find many online, show various links coming in so far, from 70ish to 130ish. Either way, it sounds pretty good to me.

And we are just getting it rolling now! There are MANY more inbound links to come, I hope! Maybe 15 times as many or more! Actually there should be more than that before I am through! I am on a roll I hope.

Hope this blog post was slightly interesting. I think it is. It's the net being built. It's a structure, for sure, but not like a steel framework for a building. It is built from a lot of wires, in a way. ha ha