Directories For SEO
Are directories still good thing for your SEO? Are those still used for search by people? There are so many search engine directories popping up earch day. Find out whether it is good use of your time to put some efforts to submit your site to search directories for SEO purpose.
Stats on my websites shows that around 80% of the traffic comes from search engines but to my surprise some traffic (around 3% to 5%) do still come from the directories I have submitted my sites. I know 3% to 5% is not a very big number, but still it shows that some people still use directories for search.
So I would say, submitting your site to at-least free directories does make sense with respect to giving traffic to your site.
But free directories are disappearing these days and more and more directories are becoming paid submission directories. Is it worthwhile to submit to paid directories? To be frank, I rarely received any traffic from any paid directories (except yahoo directory) on the web. But then, why should be submit our sites to paid directories?
Paid directories themselves do a lot of SEO work and get a lot of back links (paid and up-paid), making their parge rank moving towards north. So submission to paid directory only make sense in terms of getting RELEVENT-HIGH-PAGE-RANK-BACKLINK. For new sites, paid directories getting listed into search engines quite fast and help getting better ranking (due to high-page-rank-backlink).
So what are the most important free directories I can submit my site?
There are not many free directories left. Here they are:
Open Directory - The most importa free directory. May take a long time to get listed.
JoeAnt - This is free directory if you become the edior of the directory.
AbiLogic - Free directory that usually includes sites within one month.
Gimpsy - Free directory that only includes sites that are some how interactive.
Index Unlimited - Free but requires a reciprocal link.
SEDir - Free but requires a reciprocal link.
NetInsert.
Skaffe - Free if you become the editor of the directory.
SiteRanking.com - Free but requires a reciprocal link.
Web-Beacon - Free if you are a volunteer editor.
Web World - Free directory that can take up to 6 months before your site is included.
Written by SEO Tipster on July 26th, 2005 with
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