Directory Web Site Submission
Simply a "Must!"
 The directory web site
submission process is essential to
marketing your website, building visibility, credibility
and
your reputation on the internet.
Listing your website with directories is
actually quite a simple process.
Although, without a doubt, website
submission is a boring and tedious task but an absolutely necessary
one!
Personally, I find it helpful to use directory submission software in
order to make the process go much faster and to make the most efficient
use of my time.
I have used the free version of the Internet Market's Directory Web Site Submission
software but have long since upgraded
to their premium level directory submission software.
(I
love quick and easy!)
While I haven't found any directory web site
submission
software to be perfect and without a few annoying idiosyncrasies,
I appreciate that I can achieve my goal of submitting to at least 5 to
10 directories each week in a matter of 5 to 10 minutes rather than an
hour or more.
There are literally a gazillion web directories
that offer links for free. Other directories charge a fee or require a
link exchange.
I recommend listing your website with both free and paid
directories.
However, I do skip the directory sites that require a link exchange.
Here's the scoop between
the two. . .
- List with those with a page rank of 3 or higher
- Make sure that the directory doesn't use the
"no follow" attribute on the links submitted (Take a quick peek at
"view source" to learn this
information)
- Avoid those that require you to sign-up for a
ream of newsletters (or
your inbox will be inundated in no time!)
- Looks matter: If the site looks cheesy or
ill-kept, pass.
- Size does matter: If the site only shows a
handful of listing in each
category, pass.
- Be patient. It can take months (and sometimes
never) for some
directories to list your site for "free".
- Listing your website with directories certainly
reinforces the adage, "You do get what you pay for."
- As with any premium service, your submission
receives attention- fast!
- Usually you will find that paid directories
offer a good page rank along with delivering a fair amount of
consistent traffic to your site demonstrating that your investment is
worthwhile!
TIP: Don't pay
to submit your site to any of the major search engines!
(Although you will need to submit your site map if your web host
doesn't do that for you in order to alert their "spiders" to crawl your
site.) Eventually, all the major search engines will find
your site and it
will get listed! Just be patient.
Save your money for a better return
on your investment.
Why waste $299 a
year
on a Yahoo listing when they don't even
guarantee that your site will be listed?
Search engines have programs which crawl around the web gathering
information about websites.
 You've no doubt heard of the Googlebot,
then there is Yahoo Slurp and other search engines have similar types
of "spiders"
which crawl around your site and feed their respective
engine information about your site's content.
(Don't you wonder just how each search engine spiders gets its name?
Googlebot actually makes a lot of sense to me, but Slurp?)
So not to worry, with enough content and as you build
both your internal and external links the major search engine
spiders all eventually come to pay your website a visit and harvest the
information
necessary to index your site.
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