Using Directory Submissions To Build Links
August 28th, 2008 by Dan Taylor
When building off page links to improve search engine ranking, it's important to get a strong basis of good links. This means a range of links from topically relevant and related pages. While some may not offer the same kind of advantage that they once did there are many that can still be helped to use your search engine optimisation efforts through link building.
Both category specific and general topic directories exist and both offer their own general advantages. General directories attract more traffic and are known to be relied upon more by search engines to help them create the basis for generating their indexes. Topic specific directories, however, can also generate very good levels of direct, targeted traffic as well as a powerful link.
When building any links, especially using directories, one of the more important factors is ensuring that they are search engine friendly links. This means that spiders should not be prevented from following the links and that links are well categorised and properly formatted without the use of nofollow or noindex tags.
Pages that include hundreds of outbound links do not offer the same value as those with very few external links. Directories do tend to have a lot of links on their books, because this is the nature of a web directory. Ensuring good pagination and the use of categories and sub categories should ensure that you still receive decent value from each of the links you do generate using web directories.
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If you are using directory submission to promote your website then remember your site should be submitted in relevant category, so if search engine spiders come across your site listed in a directory and the site is in the right category, then spider will visit your site through this link.
Directory submission is a good option for collection of one way links but do not submit your site to porn, gambling and banned sites. These type sites are called bad neighborhood.
I submitted my website to some directories about a month back. Now I am seeing the results, it really works awesome.
Main advantage of getting your site submitted in web directories is that your site is indexed by the search engines quickly.
Wow!!!! Great article! I’m also using directory submission for my website. Directories are considered as a great way to collect valuable links.
When individuals own websites, one of their main goals is to ensure that as many people as possible visit their website and either view their content or purchase products via their site. There are many way through which an individual website owners can help to increase their number of visitors. The main thing is on page and off page search engine optimization.
Page rank is a term that basically equates with how many votes a particular webpage gets from other web pages on the internet. This is usually calculated by looking at the links on web page on other websites.
Good contents and keywords rich pages are helpful to get higher position in search engine ranking. Always remember that when you add links to your page, all the links should be of high quality related to the sites theme. Directory submission and keyword rich articles are also helpful to increase page rank.
Directory submission is the cheap and best way to get good one way link. It’s the part of off page optimization and helpful to increase site’s page rank but it should be slow in process, don’t make it fast.
I am a computer savvy, but I don’t have enough knowledge about search engine optimization, if someone has the deep knowledge about SEO, please make a comment on that and I will definitely read it.