Malav Shukla

Submitting to Directories

Directories are search engines powered by human beings. Human editors compile all the listings that directories have. Getting listed with the web’s key directories is very important, because many people see their listings. In addition, if you are listed with them, then crawler-based search engines are more likely to find your site and add it to their listings for free.

Benefits of submitting to Directories

One great way to increase your traffic and weight in the search engines is to submit to directories.

Submitting to directories is certainly a good plan if you are interested in increasing the number of links to your web page. As you may already know, the more links you have the higher search engines will rank your web page based on its popularity. This is one of the greatest benefits of submitting to directories because your site will receive many back links and carry a higher weight with the search engines. As a result, your site will be ranked higher by the search engines and have more links for people to click on and end up at your site.

Another benefit your site will enjoy by being listed in a directory is increased credibility. The reason being part of directory increase credibility is because an actual person must review your site for quality content before it is listed in a directory. Because of this, when your site is listed in a directory web searcher immediately know your website provides relevant information and will be more likely to pay you a visit.

Both of these benefits of submitting to directories result in your ultimate goal, which is increasing traffic.

Preparation

You should prepare before submitting to any directory. This preparation means that you have written a 25 word or less description of your entire web site. That description should make use of the two or three key terms that you hope to be found for.