DIRECTORIES INCLUSION

Web Directory Inclusion
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Back links are a vital part of raising your score with the search engines. Buying links can be very expensive and finding sites willing to link to your site can be very time consuming. Still link building should play an important part of your web site promotion strategy.

Submitting your web site to relevant free inclusion web directories is an easy way to gain back links to your web site. There are hundreds of inclusion web directories on the Internet willing to link to you web site for free.

The purpose of this list of web directories is to make it easier to add your web site to a large number of online directories. Choose the Google Page Rank (PR)

below that you would like to start with, the list can be filtered to remove specialty web directories by checking the “View General Directories only” checkbox. Click on the link directory you would like to add your web site to. Click on the add site or the link suggest/add url and follow the instructions of the directory. Often you will be asked to work your way to the most relevant category before you suggest your link for inclusion. When you are finished adding your web site, close the window and choose the next directory.

To see what the PR of these directories as well as you own site you can download the toolbar for Internet Explorer of install Firefox with the Google toolbar.



Directory Submission Services
An option for those that don’t have the time to add their websites to hundreds of directories is to use a directory submission service. The price varies considerable for these services depending on the features offered. Some of the things that can affect the price are:

Do they check to see if your website is already in the directory before submitting? If not then the service may only be suitable for new websites that have not been submitted before.
Do they vary the link text? It’s best not to have the text used for the links all the same. If the directory allows, try to switch between several choices of text.
How many web directories do they submit to?
Will they give you a list of all the web directories they submit to?
Over what period of time do they submit to directories? Some will submit to several hundred directories, it might be best to stagger this over a few months.
What is the mixture of PRs for the directories? You would not want to pay a lot to be submitted to only PR0 directories, while it’s fine to submit to them too, you would want to be sure there are many PR5, PR6 and PR7 directories submitted to also.
Don’t expect 100% acceptance in free submit web directories. If the service does a good job most of the web directories should accept your site, but often not all will.

One service I've used in the past that has produced very good results is

Best Web Directories' Manual Submission Service.
They provide prompt service at what I feel to be a fair price, and you should be happy using this directory submission service. For the price you pay, this service will give you a nice boost of links that you can continue to add to later.

Other Promotional Strategies

While web directory submission should not be the only link building strategy you use, it can be very effective in adding back links to your site. Don’t forget to check out our “Article submission”, “Press release”, and "SEO Forum" pages for more tips on link building.

If you need more information on how to submit your web site to a link directory you will find this article to be useful.

Tips on Quickly adding Web Sites to Directories.
How To Manage Directory Submissions.
Don't Spam Google!