I’ve had an opportunity to see ‘behind the curtain’ at a new web analytics offering, and I have to say - This is a must have (I’ll be adding it to the Spy here shortly).
The service is called ‘GoingUp!‘, and it’s a pretty nifty web analytics package. The free version comes with 1000 hits (traffic counts) per month, and offers all kinds of stats, from daily counts to monthly trends.
The basic service is completely free, so if you’re looking for a tracking service to help you keep an eye on your directory performance, then you owe it to yourself to give this a try.
Paid features include ‘actions’ to track things like sales, url clicks or other that you wish to record, as well as as SEO tracking of keywords, placement and also density. Pretty nifty.
I’m working on a price discount with these guys, in order to get us a reduced rate for their advanced analytics. I’ll post an update as soon as I get an answer.
I’ll be GoingUp! soon!
Prashanth Nair (dotcompals) offers a unique directory submission service. Prashanth will submit your website details to to all the new free SEO-friendly, non reciprocal directories announced on the major webmaster forums such as Digital Point and DirectoryCritic.com.
The service allows you to suggest multiple anchor texts and descriptions, and you get a Google spreadsheet report updated daily allowing you to see what directories your sites have been submitted to. You can also get discounts for multiple orders too! The service costs $20 per month per website. I’ve been using it for a long time now, and I seriously recommend this service!
Prashanth submits your site to any new directories within 24 hours of them being announced. Since these are new directories, the chance that your listing will be accepted is very high. This quickly gains you solid backlinks to your website. Some directories grow to be very popular, and so the strength of your links grow over time too!
This is a very cost effective way of promoting your website. Even if you get only 50 backlinks a month, that’s still only 40 cents a link!
I recently posted about Fighting Directory Spam. The feedback I received was mixed, but the chap behind phpLinkDirectory was kind enough to comment.
“Thank you for your release of this mod.
In addition, we have been continuing to fine tune the methods over in the phpLD supporters forum as well, and when we reach a point where we have some solid controls in place, we will likely make a new release of both v2.1 and v.3.1. I can tell you that using the existing release of 3.1 I have been able to cut down spam by 95% already. Thanks again for your release.”
It appears that work has already started on preventing spam. Therefore I will not start working on my ideas for a new mod until I see what is released!
If you’re looking for a list of paid directories, then Paid Directory List is probably what you are after. It lists the prices and page rank of paid directories.
It’s a free service, and you can suggest your link for free with the following information:
- Site name
- Page rank
- Category
- Google back link
- Alexa rank
- Inclusion Price
- Recurring
It would be nice to see an easier way to suggest links in the near future. However, this is a great new project to help organise paid directories. Paid directories are more complex compared to free directories, and I’m happy to see someone has recognised that paid directories need a different way to organise them compared to free directories.
