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In your attempt to rank for competitive keywords for your site, you’ve surely considered purchasing high quality links to send you some traffic and link juice. But did you ever think about buying sites instead of just links?

A website within your niche is a competitor. But if you own the website, it’s a resource. You’ve now got the potential of additional site which could generate revenue on its own, you can easily restrict it’s outbound links from other competing sites and just point it towards your main site, plus it can occupy another spot in the SERP that your competitors will no longer have.

But sometimes managing another site can be more effort than you’re interested in. So while you can simply leave the site and just redirect all the links over to you, you could always redirect the domain name and links to your site as well, passing the value along with it. The first method is by far the most favorable of the choices, providing you already indexed content and anchor text that can help your site almost instantly.

Even websites that are relevant to your content, but not identitical will be beneficial in this method, allowing you to rank for even more keywords. The power that setting all other links on a high pr page to nofollow are remarkable in how fast your site would receive credit for the new link juice. But before you take the plunge, remember to verify all the important aspects that the specific site has to offer, such as PR, domain age, alexa index, and so on.

And if you’re just considering this method as a way to make money, you could always buy out a site and charge those listed as links from the site a fee for the link they’ve already had!

Socialable is a plugin for Wordpress which adds a small group of icons below your blog posts that allow visitors to easily add your pages to their favorite social bookmarking sites. You’ve probably seen or used the Sociable plugin on other blogs without even knowing it. It’s probably the easiest and most effective way to add social bookmarking support to your Wordpress blog.

Sociable was authored by Peter Harkins but is now handled by Joost de Valk and is on version 2.6.2 (last updated 3/31/08). Sociable currently supports almost 70 different bookmarking sites such as : Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Google and many others.

Deciding to add Sociable to your Wordpress blog is a win-win-win situation. Yes, it really is so good that it requires three “wins”.

This plugin is beneficial on many levels. It gives your site a Web 2.0 feel, it provides auto-magical offsite search engine optimization since most social bookmarks are public, it can increase unique visitors, page loads and the number of back links in an exponential fashion.

Installing Sociable goes just like installing almost any other Wordpress plugin, the process is fairly straightforward.

1. Download the latest stable version of Sociable (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/)

2. Unzip the plugin to some place easy to find such as the Desktop or My Documents

3. Use a FTP program (such as Filezilla) to upload the plugin folder to your /public_html/wp-content/plugins/

4. Browse to the WP Dashboard (yoursite.com/wp-admin/)

5. Click on the Plugins tab

6. Find and enable the Sociable plugin

7. That’s it!

Browse on over to the standard Wordpress Options menu and you’ll see a sub-entry called Sociable which contains all of its configuration options.

You might find yourself tempted to simply enable ALL of the social bookmarking site addons - I’d highly suggest against this. Too many icons will prevent people from picking our their personal favorites. Given this I’d suggest picking about 10 to 20 selections. It’s still enough to provide variety but not so many that you can’t locate anything.

Enjoy!

Please see our Directory Submission Service page for ordering.

Below are answers to our most frequently asked questions. If you have any additional questions please feel free to email us.

Q. What forms of payment to you accept?

A. We accept Paypal.

Q. Can I spread the submissions out over several weeks/months?

A. Yes you can. Please email us with any instructions after your order.

Q. How many of the directories will add my site?

A. While we can’t guarantee any specific number of listings we have found around 50% of the directories will add your listings.

Q. Should I enter the email address I use everyday for these submissions?

A. You need to use a valid email address but you may not want to use the email address you use everyday. Many directories send out emails that may contain a confirmation link so the directory can determine that the submission was manual. For this reason you may want the numerous emails to be sent to an address that you can check but is not the one you use for regular communication.

Q. Do all directories send out these email confirmations?

A. Not all directories send out confirmations but many do.

Q. What if I don’t have time to click on the email confirmation links, will you do it for me?

A. Yes, if you contact us and let us know that you would like us to click on the email confirmations we will use a gmail account for your submissions so that we can access it to click the email confirmation links. You will also receive login information to this email if you would like.

Q. Can I alternate descriptions as well as titles for my submissions?

A. Yes, please email us indicating the varied descriptions.

Q. What if my site is already listed in some of the directories you will be submitting it to?

A. If a directory gives an Already Listed message upon submitting, we will replace that directory with another directory so you will still get the number of submissions you ordered.

Q. When will I receive my submission report?

A. The report will take:

1-2 days for 100 submissions

3 days for 300 submissions

4 days for 500 submissions

5 days for 800 submissions

7 days for 1000 submissions

 

Q. I have numerous sites; can you give me a discount?

A. Yes, please email us and we can work out a bulk discount.