Site Sift Web Directory
When you start creating a content website, you have to perform multiple activities to make your venture a success; find new information or articles to add to your site, or write it yourself; exchange reciprocal links with related websites, with the hope that Google or Yahoo will rate your site higher; and still try to find ways to advertise your site, to attract internet surfers to visit.
One way to add value to your site and ease the process, is to provide a focused special interest directory as part of your website.
Most webmasters ignore this possibility; very often, links are randomly added as part of the content, or at most a free-for-all links page exists in a forlorn corner. Yet, there?s an important element that gets neglected; your visitors come to your website because they are interested in the theme or topic, and would look for more related content, if it?s available or accessible.
Another part relates to how your visitors arrive at your site; whether through listings on a search engine or a web directory, or links given to you by other related websites, sustainable internet traffic requires that your site is part of a web of links. When you start up, this often seems insurmountable; search engines rank you higher if you already have inward links, other websites won?t link to you till they?ve found you, and without either, you?re onto a non-starter.
Consider instead, if you were to use a directory script like Site-Sift to create a niche directory on your website. With options for requiring reciprocal links, or payment for featured links, it gives you a way to get links or money to pay for featured listings elsewhere. Or you could try creative offers like trading a featured link for content or other services. The set of related links that you feature on the directory themselves constitute content that?s of interest to your website?s visitors; and the webmasters who come to submit their sites are likely to share this interest.
Help is also available on the Site Sift Forums to take care of any teething issues you may have in setting up the directory, or promoting it; it?s a valuable community resource that you?ll have access to. Check it out.