As you may all have noticed, we’ve been working hard the last few weeks in order to deliver some new features and make Linkdor.com one of the best places to promote your websites and business.

First of all Linkdor has been extended to a Bidding Directory. Bids start from as low as $5. Hurry up, get yours right now.

Secondly we’re very proud to announce that Linkdor Page Rank has moved up and now it has the number of 3. That’s a very good achievement for a website that is only 6 months old. If everything goes fine we expect to move up to 4 at the next pagerank update.

As far as alexa rankings are concerned, traffics goes up exponentially, current alexa is 250,848.

We’re also working on adapting a new and very exciting forum, link will be http://linkdor.com/community but it’s still under construction. If any of you guys out there want to be a part of our team, please use the contact us form and we’ll find some arrangement.

Finally, we’ve added a bookshop section, where you can find some really interesting and useful books to read. Of course they’re not free, as the name of the site indicates, it’s a shop. But prices are reasonnable.

Linkdor Team

DMOZ has been in the directory section for a while now, it’s the first link directory that came up and since then it has become the largest human driven web directory. Very often listings in Dmoz are used by search engines and they’re given more importance in search results.

Website promotion starts with directory submissions. DMOZ is FREE but it’s not easy to get a listing there, due to thousands of reasons, and first of all because there are millions of websites waiting for approval. To avoid waiting forever you shoud take some time to find the best category possible for your website. Then you MUST use your company or website name and write a good description.

Submission guidelines are very important, they may change depending on the categories, so make sure to read those very very carefully and make exactly what they say. Very often people just get their websites deleted just because they didn’t take their time to read the guidelines.

DO NOT submit again and again, your submission will be put at the back of the review queue if you keep submitting, or be deleted altogether! Don’t get fancy with the description, yes, try and incorporate your main keyword phrase or phrases, be careful though, too much keywords may look like crappy spa.

The description should adhere to their submission guidelines perfectly. You may compare it with other websites in the category you’re submitting to.  This way you can clearly see what exactly editors of this category are looking for and how can you make it look more natural. Make it short and to the point. Also, be sure to use an email from your site, like webmaster@yoursite.com.

This may help the editors know that this is a legitimate submission from an important person in your company, as opposed to if you use name@gmail.com as the submission email address. You don’t need to worry about being spammed. It’s unlikely you will ever hear from DMOZ via email. So use your real email address from your domain.

You won’t receive a confirmation if your site is accepted or not. Again, don’t submit it twice. Check in the category if your site is present or not. Note that sometimes sites get approved within 6 months or more. So don’t hurry so much, simply submit and wait.

If the category you are submitting to does not have an editor listed AND if the category doesn’t have a lot of listings, preferably less than 50 consider applying to become an editor of the category. As editor, you can approve your own site into the category very quickly.

Be honest in your application, the DMOZ people will research the information you give them, if you lie, you won’t get approved. If you are approved, be an honest editor, giving competitors a fair shot to be listed. You wouldn’t want a competitor keeping you out of the directory if they had the power, would you? Login a couple times a week to review new listings and to keep your editor account updated.

I hope those little tips will answer some questions I’ve been reading lately in most of the forums. But after all don’t worry so much about DMOZ. Your site still can be alive and gain visitors and pay back, even if you’re not listed there. I wish you good luck with your submission.

In this post we’re going to discuss the overall look of your site and find a way to get smoothly the attention of the visitor.
In USA the average consumer is overwhelmed by advertissments and other promotional information all day long. Recent statistics show that he’s getting nearly 3500 commercial messages a day ! And every advertiser is trying to communicate his message to the potential customer. Some of them say that it’s so hard, almost impossible to get his attention with a standart ad or already used techniques. So what can you do to make sure your website is presented in the best possible light ? Here’s what we at Linkdor think can help a lot :

1. Keep the website clean and simple !
The visual design of your website better be the simpliest possible. The lesser the better ! This is particularly true when you’re about to introduce your product or service. Unless the prospective customer becomes interested to dig deeper and learn more, we advise you to show him the less information possible.

2. Speak directly to your prospective customer !
Always deliver your messages throuthout channels allowing the so called “one-to-one” communication. Learn to know your audience in details, and try to know what they really need. This will help you bring up the correct messages.

3. Be Unique
Make sure your visual marketing is as distinct and individual as your website. Overused formats of spreading your message will not bring any success. Try to differenciate yourself from the competition and be unique, don’t follow the crowd, be yourself !

4. Be as consistent as possible !
Be consitent in your identity marks. Try to always use the same colors, graphics and styles. Put yourself in the place of the visitor. What is he thinking when he first sees your website and presentation? If it was good enough, the second time he sees the same style he’ll probably think “YOU”. Make it easy on yourself: there’s no reason the reinvent the wheel and the hot water for every new email or other communication format you’re spreading.

Try to follow these simple advices in your visual marketing. Your messages will be more targetted, clear, memorable and different from those of the competition.

Further on we’ll be talking more in details and technical issues.

Regards
Frezbee McLaren