Directory Submissions

[Jack]

How important is submitting your links to Directories. Does it help in increasing web traffic? Is it more effective than forums or blogs.

[WHUK-DAN]

Submitting to Directories is a simple and effective way of developing inbound links to your website or blog. Directory submission is a very effective way to get traffic as well as a link back to your website which is counted as a vote to your website in search engines point of view and which tells them the popularity of your website. This is directly related to the page rank.
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[Peter]

Submitting your site to directories is one of the best ways to get one way links to you site. The benefits are higher for the niche directories as they can generate real, prequalified traffic of their own. Another reason why directory submission is important is because many search engines use human edited directories in order to determine the value of the websites they index.

[Harry]

If you are behind to get a better PR( backlink) through directory submission then be sure to check whether
that particular site don’t use any of blackhat technique such as using ( rel=”NOFOLLOW” ) tag,
Using such tag it can preserve its page PR to get passed onto linking sites and you won’t be benefited.

HINT : (you have to view code source to see this whether site is using NOFOLLOW tag ).

[Ryan]

Submitting to directories specific to your niche is much more beneficial to get traffic to your site. Other than that directory submissions are beneficial in gaining one way links for a website. But make sure you submit to high PR quality directories to get the maximum benefit.

[Callum]

Yea check out for directories which have a minimum PR of 5 and submitting in these directories should be your initial step of getting backlinks and it’s also an easy way which may give you tremendous results if done by the rules set by the directory sites. We cannot compare the results you get from directories or forums and blogs as each of these ways have their own importance and a role to play in getting your website traffic and giving it better search results which is done by the search spiders.

[Harry]

Before submission, prepare keyphrase-rich text that accurately describes your website
as this text would be associated with your link.
Also check for the page rank of the page where your link would be placed, that page should be of high PR.

[sanjshimadry]

Submitting to directories is a great way to get one way links back to your site. But it is best to stick to niche directories as relevency is possibly the most important factor in link building nowadays.

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[kev woodman]

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[alan]

Web directories are very important because they allow webmasters to increase their website's page rank with the big search engines thanks to the back links. Back links are like a popularity contest and the more you have the more popular your site. So, web directories can really help your site get ranked higher by Google, MSN, and the other big search engines.
So web directories will not only increase your traffic, allow people searching for your particular product or service to find you, but it will also increase your ranking with the search engines and benefit your site overall.

[rotimigenius]

I think Harry has made a good point there.

[ziahamza]

can you recommended me a website where i can submit a link to my webiste

[WHUK-Reviews]

can you recommended me a website where i can submit a link to my webiste

You can select any list of free directories and start submitting those. Directorycritic.com give it a try. Its a huge list to submit.

[eddym]

You can select any list of free directories and start submitting those. Directorycritic.com give it a try. Its a huge list to submit.

Below are other options for free directories lists:

addurl.nu
linksadmin.net
webdirectorylist.com

[Harry]

Below are other options for free directories lists:

addurl.nu
linksadmin.net
webdirectorylist.com

Thanks eddym for sharing your resource
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