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How_To_Properly_Submit_Your_Website_To_Directories
| How To Properly Submit Your Website To Directories
How To Properly Submit Your Website To Directories © 2004 Jeff
D. Schuman http://www.team-schuman.com
Having a top placement on a search engine and enjoying the
traffic that comes with a top ranking is dependent on many
things. Certainly at the top of that list is having as many
links and quality links pointing to your site. Your competition
has hundreds and possibly even thousands of links pointing back
to them. This is what it is going to take for you to compete
with them as well.
Did you know that over 90% of search engine traffic comes from
Google, Yahoo, and MSN. These three search engines provide
results for many other search engines, and if you are listed on
these three search engines, your site will be listed 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 from Open
Directories like DMOZ.
When you see an ad offering to submit your site to thousands of
search engines save your money. It simply is not worth the time
it takes to sign up for their service and you are better off to
spend your money on another form of promoting.
What is worth the time and money is to submit your site to as
many different directories as possible. Directories are viewed
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 is important
that you make sure your site is ready to be submitted. To get
your site in shape to be submitted consider the following:
1. Make sure your site is completed. Fix all broken links. Have
all pages completed. Make sure it loads properly and quickly. If
you want get another opionion on whether it is ready to be
submitted. Here is a good company that validates websites:
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/
2. Find the correct category to be listed under. Although this
can be frustrating it is important to take the time to find the
correct category and sub-category for your site to be listed
under. Choosing the wrong category could result in your site
being denied.
3. Submit the correct URL. This needs to be your main domain and
not sub-domains. In my case that would be
http://www.sites-plus.com and nothing else. Do not add the
index.html at the end when submitting.
4. Write an acceptable description of your site. You need to
keep it to 2 sentences and nothing more. If you have any doubts
about how to write a good description go to your category and
look at the descriptions of sites already listed.
5. Use the official title of your site. This needs to be the
REAL Title of your site and not just the part that shows in your
browser. In my case that is Small Business Resources.
Generally it is accepted that 2 key directories to submit to are
Yahoo and The Open Directory Project (ODP)
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://dmoz.org/add.html
With Yahoo you will have to determine if you want a standard
submission which is free or an express submission which costs
$299.00. Submitting to the ODP is free.
Here is another site I came across that offers rankings on the
best directories to submit to
http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php
For a more in depth look at submitting to directories read this
article here:
http://www.strongestlinks.com/articles/dirSubmitGuide.php
In conclusion submitting your site to directories is an
important part of the overall philosophy of getting quality
links pointing back 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:
http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo
Enter your the URL for your competitor and the click on the
Links Button. You can see how many links they have pointing back
to them according to Yahoo, Google, and GigiBlast. You will see
you need a lot of links pointing to your site to compete with
them. Adding your site to as many directories as possible is one
way to do that.
About the author:
Jeff Schuman is a 20 year veteran of wholesale and retail sales.
In that time he has had sales of over $35 Million Dollars. His
small business resource website offers small business owners
everything they need to start and run a small business.
http://www.sites-plus.com
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