Webmasters have yet to pick up on how beneficial bidding directories can be in their link building campaigns especially those webmasters who are working on a shoestring budget.

As of todays date we have a total of 39 directories in the Bidilicious list. Of these 1 charges is GBP, 1 charges in Euros and the remaining 37 charge in USD. If we were to submit a single web site to each of the bidding directories on the list it would give us the following costs:

£2.00 ($3.93)
€2.00 ($2.93)
$257.84

Using Oanda currency exchange this would give us a grand total of $264.70 to generate 39+ virtually instant backlinks to your web site. Also bearing in mind that 28 of the 39 bidding directories also allow between 3 and 10 deeplinks with your submission.

Now lets assume that you play things smart and follow Alive’s tip and add an extra ten cents to each bid to ensure you stay slightly ahead of all the others who come along and submit at the minimum bid price. This would add an extra $3.90 to the above total.

Divide that up into the 39 and your average cost is just $6.89 per submission. That is not bad considering that up until Google’s recent crack down on buying and selling links, most link touts out there would be charging you more than that on a monthly basis!

Make sure you get the most out of bidding directories and remember to vary your link text and descriptions to ensure each directory is showing unique content for your detail page.

One of the keys to building a successful bidding directory is to create unique content that will draw in your target audience from the search engines.

There are a few ways you can go about this…

1) The first step and most important step from my point of view if you are running a categorized bidding directory is to add unique descriptions to the page for each individual category. This will add relevance to your listings.

2) If you are running a niche bidding directory then there really is nothing better than adding on a blog and customizing the look and feel to match your directory design. A blog is a great tool for attracting people who are interested in your niche to your bidding directory.

3) There is a great phpLinkBid mod written by Zorg Links which allows you to add articles to your bidding directory. This can be useful to add content to the site on a regular basis and keep the search engines indexing your site.

4) Again this one is for the categorized bidding directories, adding news feeds to your categories can provide the search engines with frequently updated content which the search engine spiders will eat up.

Of course there are many other ways you can add unique content to your web site and the more unique your idea is the more it will benefit you in the long run.

Remember: Content = Search Engines = Traffic = Sales