5.3 Make brilliant link directory that perfectly fits your site

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Before you ask for a link back to you, wouldn't it be nice if you make a good–looking link directory of your own? Besides your homepage, link directory will be the first thing your potential partner will look at, when deciding whether to give you this link or not. Want your link partners think about you as a respectful expert? Then make your links page look professional. That's the next step of link building.

Step 4. Place a link to them on your site

This works like clock, once you set up a couple of things.

Firstly, set categories for partners.

If you want to create a link directory where links will be arranged in categories (a tree–like structure, as we call it), go to Preferences -> Link Directory Settings -> Categories and create several categories for your links. Of course you'll be able to edit your category list at any time.

After that you can put each link partner into a matching category, just select the necessary partners, and use the right–click menu for settings, like the screenshot shows:

Setting partners' category

Secondly, generate and upload your link pages.

Click the button Generate and go through the wizard in the tool. All's clear there so you won't need my help. In the end you'll have a link directory, fitting your site's design like a glove — and all this without any HTML knowledge or webmaster skills!

Now it's time to show it to your link partners, asking for something in exchange — so let's go to the next step.

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2009-01-10 08:39:39: Martin Walker

I wonder if this auto-page generation and publishing will work within the CMS I am using www.wilshirewebedit.com.
Have you had any experience with your program integrating into a CMS? I am going to try it and see what happens. :)

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2009-01-12 10:00:32: Dan Richmond

Hi Martin,

yes, we know that some users tried this and it worked. Should work for you as well.

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2009-08-02 11:44:33: Timothy Read

Well, I just tried it in joomla, and it didn't work. Just figuring a way to get the page to show with out too much work when its modified later...

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2010-12-12 21:44:51: Tim Inglis

Hi Timothy.
I'm not sure if you've solved this issue, but what you could do is cut out the mark-up pertaining ONLY to the list -so, get rid of html/head/body tags- and then create a new article in joomla. In the article, you click the "Edit Code" button above the text area in your editor and just paste the code in. It should then take on the formatting of the site etc.
Hope this helps mate,
Tim.

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2009-08-07 11:12:39: Dan Richmond

@Timothy Read

Timothy, LA's support guys are getting it sorted for you.

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2009-09-01 18:29:14: Jozef Cabaj

anyone know free exchange links portal which works ? most of this "free" exchange links open directories are not working at all,...

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2009-09-17 09:26:30: Andrew Hughes

Hi Dan, loving the book. Putting much of it to test and trialing the seo powersuite too which looks like a great tool.....but!

I've used the submission form part of link assistant along with keyword suggestion to identify websites to link to. I experimented with getting about 40 links over a few days.

The on-page stuff is reasonably well optimized too according to the software................and yet the website has plummeted from page 3 to page 5. I wouldn't mind if it were my site but it's a friends. I don't know what I've done wrong. Are you able to spot anything I might have done which is stupidity on my part? website is www.prestigeconservatoryblinds.co.uk

Thanks.

Andy

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2009-09-18 09:04:54: Dan Richmond

Andrew Hughes

Andrew,
1) If you got a lot of links for that website within a short period of time it is possible that Google dropped it for a few days but will look better into links and lift it higher than before. This happened quite often especially with websites having not too many links.

2)There might be a link from some bad-reputation site.

3)While you got some of the links some earlier links might have been removed. Are you sure that you have all your earlier links in the same places?

4) How long did the drop happen? Maybe it coincided with Google's algo changes.

It's hard to say what's causing the drop without knowing what exactly you've been doing recently. Simply looking at the website can hardly help.
Also, have you done any on-page changes or only link building?

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2009-09-21 15:28:54: Andrew Hughes

Hi Dan,

I've completed SEO in Practice! Yeehaw! Thanks for your reply to my previous post, it's hard to know whether to dis-believe what you say or take comfort in it.

However, sure enough, the website has jumped back up to page 3 and I'm breathing a sigh of relief. I guess it was Google reviewing things.

I do have another question though, I've been adding links today and have got around 10 from blogs and forums etc plus one featured link which will appear on around 700 different pages. When I ran SEO Spyglass to look at the client's website it wasn't showing these links. Is it likely to be due to a time lag or should it show up instantly? Or am I missing something here?

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2009-09-23 06:33:46: Dan Richmond

Andrew,

Ranking fluctuations are to be expected, especially when you're actively optimizing a site. Often you'll see your rankings go down or if your site is not ranked high, it may even drop out of top 100 for a short period of time. It may happen for a couple of days and then your rankings will be restored, in most cases higher than before the drop. I see this happen all the time and there's nothing to be worried about.

Yes, you're right the newly acquired links don't show up in SpyGlass due to a time lag. The lag depends on how often the search engine crawlers visit the site. SpyGlass shows you the links that search engines know about, i.e. the links that contribute to the site's rankings. When these links get indexed by the search engines they should start showing up in SpyGlass.

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2010-09-07 12:18:03: Make Money at Home

This is very important information. I am glad that you discussed it.

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2009-10-05 12:16:29: Buscadores Doblemente

Hi Dan.

I'm reading this "walkthrough" and I really love it.

I'm trying the trial version of SEO PowerSuite and it's really great. But I'm having some kind of troubles.

I'm from Spain, and in fact, i'm trying to optimize a website for Spanish Google server. Even if I try selecting "Google(La web)" from the LinkAssistant Preferences, it's not getting any partners. It just finds CEO's websites and so.

Is there any way to get the links correctly if it is not from google.com ?

By the way, great work on writing this book.

From SEO Dept. @ www.doblemente.com

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2009-10-08 05:18:57: Dan Richmond

@Buscadores Doblemente

Even if I try selecting "Google(La web)" from the LinkAssistant Preferences, it's not getting any partners. It just finds CEO's websites and so.

Sorry, I am totally not getting what you mean ((( What's "CEO's websites"? Please email me at dan@seoinpractice.com - I'm sure we'll sort your problem.

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2010-03-22 10:35:29: Rituraj Sharma

Hi mr. Richmond,

I am wondered that you are giving this SEO training free of cost while you could have made lot of money by it.

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2011-05-28 16:15:09: K Appel

Hi Dan- Hello,

I purchased the PowerSuite and I'm in the 30 day trial. I using LinkAsst and following Chap. 5. I read it twice: once for overview and now following step-by-step with my own site. I followed 5.3 and generated a link directory. For some reason it created a relative path for the directory (where I stored the file because I couldn't ftp it thru the software) so that when I uploaded it none of the links worked. Instead of linking to the correct page, it was looking for folders and subfolders that were on my hard drive but not how I have the files with my isp. I had to go in and re-code all the html by hand to fix the link errors.

To clarify: the main link page was www.mydomain.com/links.html
and each category page should have been the same (www.mydomain.com/category1.html). Instead the code that was generated by LinkAsst was www.mydomain.com/mycomputer/mydocuments/downloadfolder/subfolder/category1.html

I couldn't figure out how to correct it in LinkAsst. I want to make sure that it doesn't keep generating pages that don't match my ISP directories. Where do I go in LinkAsst to make corrections for the links to the different category pages all at once so that I don't have to do it manually one by one? I don't remember being asked to assign urls or paths so I couldn't figure out how to correct it program-wide and the instructions don't address this. Please assist. Thanks.

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2011-06-01 05:33:15: Dan Richmond

Most probably you need to go to Preferences -> Link Directory settings -> FTP/Local storage and set up the root folder correctly for your uploaded files. You can always contact customer support at http://link-assistant.com/support and ask them for help.

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2011-06-28 08:29:22: Aaron Emerson

Not working with Wordpress right now either. Still a great module and a well done tutorial though!

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2011-06-30 07:29:29: Dan Richmond

Currently, the link directories you generate with LinkAssistant do not get integrated to your Wordpress or Joomla control panels, but they stand as a separate HTML pages on your website. So, our WordPress users usually do the following: they create a basic template (without any menus), save it to the hard drive in the HTML format, copy the source code and paste it to their current Joomla/Wordpress theme. In this way you have the link directory page integrated to the WordPress.

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2011-12-03 09:28:14: Allan Moerkeberg

Hi Dan
Graet book and course, I am allmost done, while I am optimizing our website www.danmai.se at the same time.
I have som problem with generating a link directory from "link assistant". Our website is hosted and I don't fully understand how I am supposed to get the link directory to land succesfully on the links page I have created - www.danmai.se/links. Do I need to get the FTP server info from my hosting company?

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