List of Directories - Directory Submissions
Looking to drive traffic to your website? Interested in building backlinks? One of the fastest and easiest ways to do that is through submission of your website to top quality online directories.
With the huge volume of both paid and free directories available on the web today you have almost limitless opportunities to submit your site. However, many of these directories are virtually worthless both from a traffic and a backlink perspective. You're wasting your time submitting to most web directories.
So given a list of directories, how do you tell which ones are quality? There's a few factors you will want to consider for each one.
First, the age of the directory is important. The age of the directory can be easily ascertained by doing a whois lookup for the domain. Many sites provide whois information; Network Solutions is probably the most well known. Simply visit www.networksolutions.com, find the whois link, and enter the domain for the directory. Included in the information that is returned is the date the domain was registered.
Secondly is the volume and quality of backlinks to the directory. The best way to check this out is to to use Yahoo's search engine. Performing this search on Yahoo! will give you the backlinks to that directory:
linkdomain:directoryname.com -site:directoryname.com
Have a look at the sites that link to that directory. Are there a lot of them? Do they seem to be quality links? If so then it's likely a quality directory as well.
Thirdly, whether or not the search engines will cache and index all the pages of the directory are important as well. To see the pages that Google has indexed for example, perform the following search on Google:
site:www.directoryname.com
That will show you all the pages in the directory that are indexed in Google. You're looking for a large number of pages that are indexed, of which relatively few are marked as 'Supplemental'.
And finally, you want to find directories that employ human editors to monitor the submission process. Matt Cutts of Google has stated on his blog: “The approach I’d recommend in that case is to use solid white-hat SEO to get high-quality links (e.g. editorially given by other sites on the basis of merit).” Which would certainly seem to be the case with quality directories.
Here's a list of paid directories that meet all of the above criteria to get you started:
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