Try
Canada.com is the property of
Jean-Sebastien Coutu.
I am a well-known SEO consultant/lecturer
in Montreal. I hold a master's
degree in communication technologies
from the University of Montreal
(2002), and have over 10 years
of professional experience in
the computing field.
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The name "Try Canada" means
that you, dear fellow Canadians, should
give our Canadian websites a try. We
have plenty of online stores and quality
content here in Canada.
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I also want to help Canadian webmasters
compete with foreign websites for Search
Engines Ranking, by collecting hard links
and contextual links, free of charge.
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If you take a close look at the dozens
of Canadian directories available online,
you will realize that at least 95% aren't
worth the time it takes to fill out a
submission. These directories will redirect
links (for silly statistical purposes),
attract no traffic, artificially inflate
Pagerank, and provide no contextual text
links. Many are too expensive, include
over 200 external links per page, and
have editors who rename your titles without
your consent. There is an urgent need
for a directory that really helps Canadian
webmasters to promote their websites.
For these
reasons, I decided to create this exclusive
directory for Canadian-based websites.
My intention
is NOT to transform this directory into
an "advertising money machine".
I show carefully chosen ads that help
me to pay for hosting and the daily management
of content.For this reason, you can submit
your Canadian website for free and expect
to receive a quick answer.
2
ways to get a hard link from TryCanada
:
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Fill out the form "Add your url"
to submit your Canadian website. If it
meets the requirements (read the Submission
Guideline), your site will be added
and shown in this format : title, description,
url, city. This is your "title",
which is going to be clickable (as a hard
link).
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If you give a link back to TryCanada somewhere
on your website, you earn the right to
get 1 anchored keyword in your description.
You aren't dreaming : this means an extra
"contextual text link" pointing
toward your homepage (or a different page
of your choice). So there is no need to
have this page linked directly from your
homepage, as other directories demand.
And that's not all. If your backlink is
placed on a page having a Google Pagerank
of 3 or more, you get a printscreen of
your website (a thumbnail image of 65x50
pixels) with an "Alt" repeating
your anchored keyword. This could be the
deal of a lifetime; click here to see
an example. Remember, 1 quality link
to Try Canada = 1 Screenshot + 1 Extra
Contextual text link.
Finally,
even if TryCanada is dedicated to helping
Canadian websites, that doesn't mean that
it will accept every submission. Actually,
not all sites get listed. Determine what
constitutes a quality website and whether
my Submission Guidelines are clearly met
is a matter of my discretion alone. Don't
waste your time insulting me through email
if I reject your submission. This is MY
directory and I won't let anybody tell
me what I should do with it. Never forget
that I pay to maintain a FREE DIRECTORY.
So, if you aren't satisfied, start your
own.
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