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Author: Seomul Evans

If you’ve spent any time at all researching SEO tactics and internet marketing strategies, then you know the importance of directory submissions. But if you’re new to the concept, then you may be wondering what exactly a directory is and what it can do for you. Here are your top 4 questions about directory submissions answered.

1. What is a Directory? A web directory is simply a listing of websites broken down by category and subcategory. Each listing typically also includes a description of the website along with a link. While a directory may sound a lot like search engine, it is not. A directory is actually managed by human editors who review each submission and determine whether or not it is appropriate for that particular directory. Each directory has its own submission guidelines, but the minimum that any directory typically requires is a completed website (one that is not under construction) and a website that doesn’t promote illegal activity.

2. Why Should I Submit my Site to Directories? Directory submissions can benefit your business in a number of ways.

First, since a directory lists websites by category, a search engine that sees your site in a directory will have a good idea of the subject of your website. The easier it is for a search engine to determine the topic of your site and its relation to your keywords, the quicker the search engine will associate your website with that particular theme.

Second, search engines place a high value on one-way links. In fact, links are one of the primary ways that search engines determine your site’s search engine ranking. Directories are a great source of one-way links. Of even greater benefit to you are older, well-established directories that are considered authoritative by the online community because those are also assigned a higher value than are newer directories that are not well known by experts.

Take a second look at any directories that require you to provide a reciprocal link to the directory on your own website. These reciprocal links are not given much value at all by search engines, and the generally accepted rule is that high-quality, authoritative directories don’t require businesses to post a reciprocal link.

3. Which Directories Should I Submit My Site To? Your best bet is to submit to both general directories and niche directories. A quick internet search will give you a listing of directories that cater directly to your product or service. While these niche directories tend not to hold the same clout as more well-established general directories, they will get targeted traffic to your site. When you’re researching general directories, focus on those that have a high PageRank. Search engines will respond more favorably to listings in these directories that those in directories with low PageRank.

4. What Else Should I Look For in a Directory? Look for search engine-friendly directories. These directories will allow deep-linking, in which your listing in the directory links to a page on your website other than the homepage. This link appears more relevant to the topic to search engines and thus helps increase your search engine ranking.

Search engine-friendly directories have other features that urge search engines to index your website immediately. As you search for the directories you want to use, be sure to find directories that have been labeled “search engine friendly” by other users.

As you further research directory submissions, you may find it helpful to consult with an internet marketing professional. She can not only help you find the right directories for your website, but she can also submit your site on your behalf. Furthermore, she can discuss your overall internet marketing strategy and help you determine just how directories can help drive traffic to your site and increase your profits.

About the Author:
Seomul Evans is a senior SEO services with “SEO 1 Services” a Dallas firm providing Online Directory submissions and free internet marketing Blog articles.

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Author: Jatin Sharma

Directory Submissions will increase your site visibility

To maintain your rankings, listing and fast indexing in search engines you need continues building of links every month. With our monthly manual directory submission services you can achieve this. This service is for customers who has already availed directory submission services may be from us or other submission company. Every month there is announcement of new directories and we track these announcements and make your site submission in these directories to keep getting one way links. Minimum submission will be 50 directories a month.

Directory Submissions will increase your site visibility on the major search engines, and in return that will increase your website traffic. It also builds backlinks to your website, and the more backlinks that you have generally the higher up you will be ranked in google for keywords relevant to your website. Directory submissions play a key role in link building.
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The goal of our directory submission services is to have the pages of your website included in the directory database with minimal editing by directory editors. Achieving this goal requires significant directory research and analysis which our directory editors and reviewers have as they are category editors of various directories like Zeal (LookSmart non-commercial), DMOZ (The Open Directory Project), JoeAnt, IndiaBook and others.

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Author: Julia Ramyalg

If you are a web site owner and do its SEO and promotion by yourself, you know that search engines bring huge traffic, and you do your best to climb the top of the search results. You know that quality text content and proper meta tags are very important, and you know how important are links which lead to your web site from other sites. There are several ways of getting links for your web site and submission to web directories is one of them.

1. Why submission to web directories is a powerful tool for your web site promotion?

Web directory is a web site that accepts web sites listings categorized into categories and sub-categories. When you submit your site to a web directory, a link to your web site is added. As you know, link popularity is an important factor for high rankings. When your link is placed on a page with good PR this is a plus to your web site link popularity, because your web site gets ‘piece’ of the page’s PR. The more links your web site has the higher your rankings in search engines but the links must be natural – i.e. relevant and one-way.

Yes, few years ago for high rankings in search engines it was enough just to exchange links with other web sites. Nowadays Google recognizes such schemes and considers these links not natural, and discounts their value in web site popularity and PR calculation. Reciprocal link exchange can still be used as way to get visitors to your web site if you exchange links with good high traffic web sites, but for building ranking one-way natural links are needed.

The links must be SEO-friendly: static, direct, and without ‘nofollow’ attribute; they must be on a page that has some PR, surrounded by text content related to your web site theme and not more than 30 other web sites links. More links on a page will devaluate “piece” of PR your web site gets from the page.

Web directory that offers such links is called SEO friendly web directory and is really worth even paying some small amount for submission because your link will be found and indexed by search engines in just a couple of days and it will be a “plus” to your web site link popularity.

2. What listing to select?

Usually web directory listing consists of linked title, URL, and description, and also can display web site home page thumbnail, Page Rank, detailed description, reviews by visitors, and other. Listings can be free, free with reciprocal, regular paid, and paid premium.

Free listing is a regular listing, its plus that you pay nothing for inclusion, but this type of listings doesn’t guarantee permanent place for your link because newly submitted links will move it to the further pages with lower PR.

Option of free with reciprocal link listing you can select in a paid directory if you don’t want to pay but want to add your web site. Some web directories consider this type of listings as a kind of premium, and give benefits of placement to your link until you keep their reciprocal link alive.

Regular paid listing you may pay for inclusion to a really good web directory, which is SEO friendly and will really give positive results to your web site promotion.

Premium paid listing is always placed above regular listings and can be added to top categories pages with good PR. Such type of listing guarantees permanent top place until payment expiration, which can be monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Often premium listing allows deep links submission, i.e. link to internal pages or sub-directories of your web site, that is good for your web site promotion.

3. How to find good web directories?

Of course you can use search engines but better is to use categorized list of reviewed and rated web directories at special web sites like http://www.criticdirectory.com, http://www.directorycritic.com, http://www.addurl.nu/, http://info.vilesilencer.com/ where the directories are reviewed by hundreds of webmasters so you don’t waste your time on submission to useless directories.
As you will see from the lists, there are general and niche web directories. Always start submission from niche web directories related to your web site theme, because links from relevant resources will be more useful for your web site, and then go to general web directories.

4. How to submit your web site correctly?

There are some tips and secrets and you really need to know them to get high ROI for your money and time spend on submission. Follow these 5 tips to make web directories work for your web site:

4.1. Make sure that it is a SEO friendly web directory

Links must be direct, static, and SEO-friendly, i.e. search engine robots will easily find and index your link. View the web page source code by right clicking on the page and selecting ‘View Source’ from the drop-down menu. Look at the page meta tags, namely ‘ROBOTS’ and make sure it doesn’t contain ‘NOFOLLOW’ or ‘NOINDEX’ attributes.

Look at the links codes – they must be placed within tag ‘A’, ‘URL’ in ‘HREF’ attribute must be pointed directly to a linked web site, not redirect from the web directory domain link. Links must not contain ‘NOFOLLOW’ attribute.

4.2. Find the best place for your web site link

The best place is page with good Page Rank, easily and shortly reached from index page of the web directory, that contain relevant text and links.

Browse a web directory categories and/or subcategories to find the best placement for your link. It’s very important because link, placed on a page with text content relevant by theme to the web site’s theme has more value in eyes of search engines. If your web site fits more than one categories or subcategories, select the one which is reached by less clicks from the home page, and/or has less other web sites links on the pages, this will give your link larger ‘piece’ of Page Rank.

4.3.Follow the web directory submission guidelines

If the online web directory meets all these requirements you can start composing your link. Always before starting submission you should read the submission rules or guidelines, because if your submission is failed to meet them, your web site will be denied.

Usually typical submission guidelines are quite simple and within the common sense rules – your web site must be legal, developed (no landing page or under construction), must not be related to racism, hate, illegal activities, etc.

If you try to submit such web site regardless of the guidelines, most likely your submission will be denied because most of web directories are human edited.

Another reason for your web site to be denied is that you selected wrong category for your listing – some web directory editor may fix it, but another one will just delete the listing.

Let’s also talk about deep linking – this is when you submit internal page of your web site like www.yoursitename.com/pagename.html instead of top level domain www.yoursitename.com
Deep linking is a SEO tactics for getting links, which look more natural in eyes of search engines, and it helps promoting certain web site pages or sections as well. Not all web directories accept deep links for regular listings – most of them offer this for premium paid submission only. If you want to submit internal page link to a web directory, read before starting what the directory submission guidelines tell about this to avoid deletion of your listing.

4.4.Write proper title and description for your link

Title of your link is very important because usually it will be linked to your web site as anchor text that has great impact on your web site search engine rankings, so do your best writing title for each link you submit, however do not stuff the title with keywords only because this may cause rejection of your submission by the directory editor. Write normal informative phrases describing your web site topics, services, products, ideas.

If the web directory submission rules allow using 2-3 keywords or key phrases in the title and description, do not miss that chance; however try to ‘mix’ the keywords with other normal words.

Do not exceed the allowed limit of characters otherwise your title will be truncated or the whole listing rejected.

Vary the link title and description at least slightly for each submission to make the links look natural in eyes or search engines. When search engines find hundreds or thousands of links to your web site with the same anchor text (title) and description, they just discount the links value and your money and time were wasted to no result in rankings. It’s enough just to change one word in title and phrases order in the description from directory to directory, and use different keywords for every 10th web directory to get natural links for your web site and improve its rankings for all the keywords.

Remember that human users are also interested in your web site listing and if will follow the link if they find its interesting and useful. That’s why to use normal language for the title and description, that takes attention of the users and prompt them to click the link.

4.5. Write down all web directories you have submitted your web site to

The first reason for this is to avoid repeated submission to the same web directory because this may cause the first submission rejection or deletion. Also it’s just helpful and handy to have summary list of where and when you submitted your web site, so in few weeks you can return and check if your web site has been added, because some web directories send notification about web site inclusion but some do not and you have to check it manually.

5.How often to submit?

When you start submission you may have list of up to 500 web directories. Process of reviewing and approval by editors usually takes up to several weeks, so even if you submit your web site to all of the 500 web directories at once, the links will not come up same day and your web site will not be penalized for too rapid links getting. However it’s better to keep submission limit reasonable, remembering that the links must look natural in eyes of search engines. So just submit about 100-200 links weekly and after 2 months you will see complete results.

New web directories appear every day and almost all of them are free at the beginning of their life, so you must be hurry to reserve a good place for your web site link because after several months the most of web directories will become paid, and their popularity and Page Rank will grow due to promotion efforts of the owners.

Where to find new web directories? Visit http://www.smackdebt.com/submit-directory.htm for daily report based on webmaster’s and SEO’s forums announcements.

6.Automated submission vs Manual

Submitting your web site to web directories you will notice that some web sites offer automated or bulk submission to 500+ or even 5000+ web directories. Are the services worth trying them? Yes, if a submitter allows using different titles and descriptions for different directories, because if he submits 500 or 5000 links with the same title and description for your web site there is a risk of penalizing by search engines, or just they will discount these links considering them not natural, so you will waste your money.

Bulk submission is great when dozens of hundreds of web directories are owned or managed by one person or company and they can add your web site to all of the directories, however again, ask them if there is a possibility of using different titles and descriptions for different directories, at least for each 5th or 10th.

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Author: Jose Freitas

Article directories are sites that store free articles. These articles are normally put there by whoever possesses the copyright to them as a publicity technique. Each article has the owners resource box localised under it so that those who finally read the article will know who published it (or at least who owns it) and will be capable to get into contact or visit their site for more information.

Articles directories are a good place to put your articles so that they’ll make you money. By employing this process, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, see you as an expert in the field, and will visit your site. Even if you can’t drop a line or don’t have any knowledge on the topic on which you are advertising (for instance if you operate an affiliate site), you are able to always employ a writer to do the work for you. Acquiring quality articles written will be costly up front, but they’ll pay for themselves very fast, either through affiliate sales or marketing your personal services, and everything from then on is pure lucre.

Lets look at a real life case. Suppose that you are an accountant operating from home. You write an article on an accounting subject and place it on several article directories. Those who are searching the theme you wrote on will read your article, view that you have the knowledge and skill that’s required to do a task for them, and visit your site or contact you via email. Your article just made you a new customer who may employ your services on a regular basis, but will definitely make you good money at least once.

Additionally, since you have placed it on a free article directory, other people who have affiliate sites about accounting will use your article for their sites. Since they must attach your resource box to it, this will get you even further exposure for every site that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting from the traffic that they get to their site.

There are a lot of article directories out there for you to use. Your best bet is to place a copy of each of your articles on every one for highest exposure. It will eventually help to get a lot of traffic and customers to your site, which will result in new orders and more revenue.

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Author: Articlesubmitter

Webmasters optimize the website to have higher search engine rankings on result pages. The key motive for this is to enhance their website’s online traffic and achieve sufficient recognition to be acknowledged on the World Wide Web. A web directory submission is one of the organic techniques to do just that. The online world has a range of unparallel techniques to boost up any kind of business. This is why; there is an increasing no of demand of website creation and designing. Content and designing of a site are as considerable as its development, i.e.: attaining out to the public it is intended for. Of the millions of websites which compete with you online, to present your site to the audience is a job by itself. Coming to your release in this regard are Search Engines and Directory Submissions.

Definition of Web Directory

Web directories are websites which hold one way links of all additional web sites and are arranged according to different categories to make best use of. As compare to automation techniques, Web directories are manually reviewed and checked, and afterward on positioned under its precise category.

In fact, there is a match among submitting your website to a web directory and reciprocal link building. As because both work to amplify your Website traffic with the use of links, a Web directory is much simpler compared to reciprocal link building processes. There are two types of Web directories on the online market. One kind of Web directory is the one which charges a certain fees to be added to its database list, known as paid directory. Paid web directory listings will instantly be added on to their list, and will be directly posted on the definite site under its declared category. And the second type is free directory submissions which can even take six months to be approved by the directory to be listed in their database.

There are many advantages of web directory submissions. One of them is Web directory submissions boosts a site to increase the web traffic. The outcomes might not be instantaneous; but in time, your site will gradually increase in popularity as more people have entrance to your link on an assortment of web directories across the Internet.

And since popular search engines uses manually submitted Web directory scheduling in their page ranking criteria, submitting in one will sensibly give you an edge in search engine results.

Director submission has become the primary seo strategy which webmaster are using boost up a websites ranking. There are so many criterions which search engines track to determine a site’s rank for certain key or search words. One of these consist links to the website. The page rank of a site is straightforwardly related to the number of quality links it has. The more links you have pointed to your site, with some distinction of the key phrase you want to rank high for, the better ranking in the search engines you will receive.

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Worldwebatlas.com is a Search Engine Friendly Web Directory offer Human Edited Web Directory from where you can get high quality one way link. Web Directories are a valuable tool for promoting a website. Especially for websites that rely on search engines to gain visitors to the website.

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