Facebook.com

Well, this site is doing very well in the web world. A very very powerful social network till date.  The numbers of its users are quite amazing, its 700+ million (Awesome). 700+ million people are using Facebook. So I would say, this site is really great to get more traffic, to connect thousands of quality people & for online marketing. You can also create your business FB page & can promote it throughout the world.

Linkedin.com

LinkedIn is the site created purely for Professionals. Thousands of professional are active on LinkedIn. This is the great way to get connected with professionals from all over the world.

Twitter.com

This is also a great way to let the people know about your business, your updates, new stuff on your sites.

YouTube.com

YouTube is a very popular video streaming search engine by Google. You can upload your videos & can spread them.

Delicious.com

Delicious is a book-marking site which allows its users to save their bookmarks, so that users can access those bookmarks from any browser.

Digg.com

Digg allows people to submit their article. Posting your articles here is great way to get traffic. Readers vote articles which they like & you get traffic if your article liked by them.

So, keep yourself Socially Active

So, I’m going to write about Off-Page Optimization & the activities related to it.

In simple words, Off-Page optimization means doing things off to website for getting ranked in search engines.  Off-page optimization is very important in the world of SEO. To get more traffic & more visibility in search engines we need to get more back-links to our website, & Off-Page Optimization is the best way to get back-links to your website.

Activities comes under Off-Page Optimization

1. Search Engine Submission

Many of you know the powerful search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. What if we get ranked in these Search Engines? Well, by submitting your website into these Search Engines will help to get ranking in these Search Engines. This is most important activity in Off-Page.

2. Directory Submission

Well, in last article I talked about Directory Submission. This is also very important activity in Off-Page. Submitting in various SEO friendly directories will help you to get more traffic & back-links. It will help you to boost your ranking in Search Engines.

3. Forum Posting

There are many forums on web. Lot of discussions are going on every day. By posting in these forums, participating in discussions will help you spread your links & improve your business all over the world. But before posting in forums first check the subject of forum, whether your category matches to it or not, the quality of a forum. These are very important things while submitting in forums.

4. Social Bookmarking

There are several powerful social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Digg etc. which can give you lot of traffic to your sites. Spreading your links on these sites can be seen by lot of people on the web. Social Bookmarking is very important part in Off-Page activities. Directory Submission is most likely done for better SEO results.

5. Blog creation & Article Submission

Blog is also an effective way to promote your website. Regularly updating your blog will help your website’s performance. By posting quality content on your website/blog will really help you to get ranked in Search Engines. Whenever Search Engines crawl your website, it looks for the content, that how the content is, the quality of content, whether it is genuine or copied from somewhere etc. these are very important factors which can affect on your ranking. If your content is copied then you will get banned from Search Engines. & the frequency of updating the website or blog also matters. Keep updating your website or blog, you will get good results.

6. Posting in Free Classifieds

The word Classifieds itself shows that you are posting your business ads in these classifieds. Posting your ads in these classifieds will help you reach more people on web & off course generating more visitors.

There are several directories available on the web which are showing thousands of links, submissions, sites, advertisements of
different companies, organisations, businesses & other products.
Directory Submission stands for submitting your website to the directories available on the web.
submission process contains submitting your website to the directories along with your site description, title, keywords,URL, E-mail, etc & getting approved by the directories. by submitting in directories, you get back links to your website, in simple words, spreading your links, your business across the world by “Directory Submission”

Directory Submission is the important thing in SEO. Directory submission comes under Off-Page Optimization.
so select the directories which are friendly with SEO. read more about SEO friendly directories here.
Basic things while submitting your site in Directories…..
There are many things should be covered while submitting your links into directories, though it seems to be very simple
task, but you have to take care of following things…

1. Choosing appropriate category related to your products..!
The most important thing while submitting in directories is to choose appropriate & suitable category for your business or
product. if you are providing services of computers & you are submitting it in catering services, then its totally wrong & you
will not get listed in that category where your services should have to be.

2. Filling your information in directories…!
While submitting in directories you will be asked for your information like the title of your site, your name, E-mail address, URL & description of your site, category, keywords, & captcha code.
you have to fill all this information correctly & carefully in directories.

3. Confirming your submission through E-mail confirmation…!
after submitting your site to the directories, you will be asked for confirming your submission by checking you E-mail.
if you submit your site but forgot to confirm your submission, then you site will not be listed in directory.
in few case, you don’t have to confirm your submission.

4. Paid listing, free listing, free listing with Reciprocal link.
there are some types of listing….

one is Free listing, one is Paid, & Free listing with Reciprocal link…

1. with Free listing you can add your website without paying money. but the approval time is too long in free listing.

2. with Paid listing/featured listing you can submit your website by paying money & the approval rate is fast.

3. with free listing with Reciprocal link you have to submit your website by putting directories link on your website.
Hope you enjoy this article……!