Seo Directories
Hopefully you have arrived here at the seo directories section from following this website as suggested from the home page.
This section is a small one but has some great explanations and great tools and links to get your link campaign on the road.
Directories are a big part of your link building campaign which takes time. It is a slow process but as long as you spend 20% of your time building links then you are onto a winner.
Some people prefer to do very small link building from directories and choose to go down the writing articles route. I would start your building links campaign with directories and then maybe later move on to articles. If you want to know more about this then the Articles link directory section explains why, how and some great websites where you can submit your articles too.
Building links is important and directories are the easiest and quickest way to start your campaign as there is no need to swap numerous emails with other webmasters. The seo spider can follow these links and find your website so it can be indexed. The more links that come into your website the more important the seo spider thinks your website is. The reason this is other webmasters will not want to link to you if you have a bad website.
I say it is easy but most directories will review your website before they add your website. Having your website up to scratch is important before you submit it. Directories are mainly human edited and they will want quality websites that are providing useful information or a quality service. The less affiliate links and ads you have floating around the more likely your website will be submitted.
The higher the page rank of a directory the more important the link coming into your website is worth. Yahoo directory is page rank 7. The search engines deem this website to be important so any website it links to will boost your website ranking in search engine results pages.
If you had a website based on cars and a page rank 7 niche directory also based on cars then the link would be worth even more to you. Then if your link consisted of the keyword car then it would be worth even more still.
Now, there are directory seo services out there that will submit your website for you. I would never choose to do this for a few reasons and because I am a true believer that you should do everything yourself to insure maximum seo.
Years ago directories were the search engines of the World Wide Web but search engines have taken over, but directories are still very important because incoming links count towards your search engine rankings.
You only need to submit your website to search engines once if you choose do but website submissions to directories is a constant process that may never end. Just be sure to follow each directories rules when you are doing website submissions.
Ok moving on…......
You know why you have to build links and you know why seo directories are a big part of link building. The trouble is the time it takes to find these directories and if you are just starting out or on a small budget some of them charge you. Try and never pay for a directory listing unless it is yahoo's directory and that you feel your website is up to their standards and will be listed.
Paying for your website to be listed in 2nd tier directories are never really worth the link if you are on a budget. You can still rank high in search engines without them. Once the traffic starts to flow and your profit increases then submit where ever you feel fit.
In this link, free website submission you will find resources that will get you lists of hundreds of directories with the majority of them being free. I like to forward on the best information I can find.
When submitting to directories if you get a choice to link back to them or not then don’t. As you are linking to a website that 99% of the time is not related to your website you will not be helping your website rankings.
The big two seo directories are yahoo and dmoz. They will both help your website enormously. Yahoo is expensive but rather quick to get listed compared to dmoz that is free but can take a very long time to get listed. Just make sure your website is up to scratch and read their rules before you go submitting your website.
Next most important would be niche directories that compliment your website and 2nd tier directories. There are local directories if you are running a service in a town or city that can help your business. But don’t forget other websites as well that have a similar theme to yours can be worth much more than a link in a directory.
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