Marketing on the Web Carrie Hill just published a summary of directories that should be on every one's link building list. These are credible sources that the search engines use to help determine the relevancy of your site for things like products, services, or locality. See Carrie's list of Must Have List of Directories Related: Building Incoming Links Directories and Incoming Links
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Perhaps the single most important thing that affects your web sites ranking is incoming links. However, it isn't as simple as just getting incoming links pointing to your site, the links need to come from credible sources. To boost relevancy, links surrounding text need to contain industry phrases and the link itself can give you a boost if the linked text contains a key phrase that you would like your site to be known for. See: URLs and Linking for SEO Before I start working on directory lis...
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