Call me a little blind here, but its been awhile since I have posted for various reasons. I have 3 travel sites, all receiving not so great hits. One is listed on ALL of these~ Overture, MSN, Yahoo and Google, Jeeves, and some others, however I keep reading things about the difference between being listed on YAHOO Serps ... and GOOGLE Serps, compared to being in the "directories" for both. How can I tell which one it is, SERPS or DIRECTORY? I have NEVER paid for an inclusion, and my sites are all travel related. I have tweaked my pages right and left, but the most unique hits per day, I have ever received on any of my sites has been 46. I may be interested in paying for inclusion to some but afraid if I start and get into that trap and later drop it, my ranking will go way down, since most will penalize you for that, as a way of sticking it to you. I've also considered having someone tweak my web pages, that does it more on a "professional basis" to try and get me better results for the keywords I wish to target. However I worry about being "taken" and not seeing any increase in hits overall. Anyone know of a company who is reasonable and has a good track record for doing this?
Or a way to get my other sites listed on Yahoo and MSN for free? I have tried the so-called non premium submits for both but its taking what seems like forever, like 8 months for one....all of my websites are over a year old, one is 3 years old. I have even submitted again but yet no luck. Help~!
