How To Properly Submit Your Website To Directories 2004 Jeff D. Schuman Having a top placement on a search engine and enjoying thetraffic that comes with a top ranking is dependent on manythings. Certainly at the top of that list is having as manylinks and quality links pointing to your site. Yourcompetition has hundreds and possibly even thousands oflinks pointing back to them. This is what it is going totake for you to compete with them as well.Did you know that over 90% of search engine traffic comesfrom Google, Yahoo, and MSN. These three search enginesprovide results for many other search engines, and if youare listed on these three search engines, your site will belisted on many other search engines too.AltaVista for example gets their search results from Yahoo.AOL and Netscape use Google and also get some results fromOpen Directories like DMOZ.When you see an ad offering to submit your site tothousands of search engines save your money. It simply isnot worth the tim e it takes to sign up for their serviceand you are better off to spend your money on another formof promoting.What is worth the time and money is to submit your site toas many different directories as possible. Directories areviewed by human beings before being approved for submission and their inclusion helps increase your link popularity as you have more and more links pointing back to your site.Since your submission is viewed by human beings it isimportant that you make sure your site is ready to besubmitted. To get your site in shape to be submittedconsider the following:1. Make sure your site is completed. Fix all broken links.Have all pages completed. Make sure it loads properly andquickly. If you want get another opionion on whether it isready to be submitted. Here is a good company thatvalidates websites: /2. Find the correct category to be listed under. Althoughthis can be frustrating it is important to take the time tofind the correct category and sub-category for your site tobe listed under. Choosing the wrong category could resultin your site being denied.3. Submit the correct URL. This needs to be your maindomain and not sub-domains. In my case that would be and nothing else. Do not add theindex.html at the end when submitting.4. Write an acceptable description of your site. You needto keep it to 2 sentences and nothing more. If you have anydoubts about how to write a good description go to yourcategory and look at the descriptions of sites alreadylisted.5. Use the official title of your site. This needs to bethe REAL Title of your site and not just the part thatshows in your browser. In my case that is Small BusinessResources.Generally it is accepted that 2 key directories to submitto are Yahoo and The Open Directory Project (ODP)/ /add.html With Yahoo you will have to determine if you want a standardsubmission which is free or an express submission whichcosts $299.00. Submitting to the ODP is free.Here is another site I came acro ss that offers rankings onthe best directories to submit to/directories.php For a more in depth look at submitting to directories readthis article here:/articles/dirSubmitGuide.phpIn conclusion submitting your site to directories is an important part of the overall philosophy of getting quality links pointingback to your site. The more the merrier. If you want to see what it will take to get a Top 10 ranking for keywords relating to your site just look at the number of links your competitors have pointing to their sites.You can easily do that by going here:/urlinfo Enter your the URL for your competitor and the click on theLinks Button. You can see how many links they have pointingback to them according to Yahoo, Google, and GigiBlast. Youwill see you need a lot of links pointing to your site tocompete with them. Adding your site to as many directoriesas possible is one way to do that.
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