Build Links Through Web Directories

January 26th, 2009 | Categories: Link Building

Link Building is one of the most effective ways to improve your site link popularity and better rankings on Search Engines through the internet. Creating good and quality links around your web site or blog, you can easily improve your overall ratings, Google PR and traffic from search engines and other web sites! Good and one of the first thing you should do about this is to submit your web site to Web Directories.

DMOZ - Most popular and very effective human edited directory on the internet! Free submissions!

On above Top 50 Free SEO Friendly Directories article, I have collected most popular web directories where you can submit your web site or blog completely for free. These directories are well known and get’s good amount of visitors per day. Of course, subscribing to more of these directories, you can improve your link popularity or Google PR for sure and completely for free!

How to Subscribe to Directories ?

This is easy process, but it can take much time for you. Also, some directories requires free registration process to submit links in their database. I recommend you to check these Directories when you have more time.

Usually, submission is really simple and quick on most listed directories! In most cases, you need to:

  1. Find appropriate category where you want to submit your site in!
  2. Find Suggest URL, Add URL or Submit your site links on these pages.
  3. Fill out necessary form to include your submission.
  4. Wait for directory inclusion – don’t submit your sites more than once!

When my Web Site Shows in Directory ?

Well, that depends from directory to directory. For example, submissions on DMOZ directory may take several months. But on some other PR4 directory can take day or two. Of course, this depends on directory popularity and number of included web sites in own database.

I recommend you to submit your site only ONCE per directory. Good way is to make own templates for Title and Description tags because Google doesn’t like when see exactly the same tags on many places! Note that this may cause your blog or web site to be marked as spam and of course exclusion from Google search engine – which is not good of course!

Conclusions

With this link building technique you can easily improve your site:

  • Google Page Rank Value
  • Link Popularity
  • Positions on SERP
  • Get Some Traffic

Only bad thing is that this technique can take much more time than any other link building technique! But, you will be credited for your hard work once believe me!

50 Best Web Directories

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  1. January 26th, 2009 at 09:26
    Reply | Quote | #1

    Thanks for the post !

    But I still tend to use the free Directory Submission Tools, they are great, easy, simple and effective ways to submit your links.

    Cheers,

    The Moneyac

    • January 26th, 2009 at 09:43
      Reply | Quote | #2

      Dir submission tools can takes less time for you!
      I will write about that later in the future!

    • January 26th, 2009 at 22:08
      Reply | Quote | #3

      Directory submission tools are faster way of building links but it is not recommended. It might even get your PR lower than it was.
      Because Google wants natural linking, and when you submit to 100+ directories at once with tools, you get 100+links in one day. What do you think – Is that natural? Of course not. So that technique might even get you banned from google and other search engines… Watch out…

      I would recommend submitting only to few truly SEO friendly directories that are human edited and that have Page Rank 4 or higher. Only these directories will make your website more popular with Google. And be careful not to submit your website to many directories in one day. Submit to 1-2 directories a day, and you’ll be ok.

      Hope I helped to understand this link building technique better.

      Enjoy!

      • January 26th, 2009 at 23:17
        Reply | Quote | #4

        Thanks for nice reply!
        I will note this in one of my future posts!

  2. Phil Taylor
    February 19th, 2009 at 20:04
    Reply | Quote | #5

    This is a great post – thanks! I agree with Gennice, I am not a big fan of the submission tools – Another downside to the directory submission tools is their one size fits all foms. These forms often times require more information than is required from the directories that you are submitting to. My practice is not to provide excess info if not required.

    My website is a few posts into a blog series on website directories and I would love everyone to pay us a visit and let us know what you think!

    Thanks! Phil.

  3. April 14th, 2009 at 06:34
    Reply | Quote | #6

    thanks for the great 50 web directories i for sure will submit my site to these and great list as well

  4. April 20th, 2009 at 16:57
    Reply | Quote | #7

    Business directories have become an effective way for the public to express opinions, make comments and select the appropriate business to deal with. On the same hand,

    business directories offer the business a great opportunity to advertise and get enormous internet exposure. For businesses that increase their exposure and generate

    interest through listings in business directories has become the smart thing to do. The powerful marketing tool of business directories will be enjoyed by the innovative public

    for a long time to come.

    Businesses that use internet business directories enable them to receive instantaneous feedback. Enhancing the relationship with a customer can increase business

    success. Customers always look for the opportunity to give feedback to the business and the internet business directory has made it a great quality control avenue. Scary?

    Not for the business that is willing to adapt and market their business with this technology.
    For marketing and promotion, the internet business directory has become an important part of business strategy.

    Tristen Thomas

  5. November 18th, 2009 at 13:58
    Reply | Quote | #8

    Thank youvery much for the 50free web directories m going to subbmit my web site one by one

  6. November 29th, 2009 at 14:09
    Reply | Quote | #9

    wao whats a great list. i was searching good web directory for ling time but i never findout like this long list. now i m really realy happy with you and with your blog. thank you very much for sharing..

    Best Regard
    Nepal travel

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