SEO Test 3: Directory Submissions
Status: In Progress – No PageRank Update Yet
Time Spent: 30 minutes
Cost: $150 (!)
The idea is simple – Make a website and let the Indian dudes loose submitting it to all directories there are to find. By far the quickest, and also the most expensive test so far. Each submission is cheap, but doing over a thousand, it adds up to some dough. 30 minutes to write some submission variations with good link texts and entering the credit card details. Not harder than that. Now it will be really interesting to see how this works out. Submissions are made over a period of a month and then the approval process takes another 0-3 months, spreading out the links over a nice span of time. Some people are afraid to submit their sites to too many directories so this experiment will find the definite answer and find out if their fears are justified or not.
The site? it’s a Joomla poker affiliate site called Real Poker. I’ll update this post when it ends up in the top 10 SERP and gets some Google Toolbar PageRank.