How To Properly Submit Your Website To Directories

Having a top placement on a search engine and enjoying thetraffic that comes with a top ranking is dependent on many things.

Certainly at the top of that list is having as many links andquality links pointing to your site. Your competition has hundreds andpossibly even thousands of links pointing back to them. This is what itis going to take for you to compete with them as well.

Did you know that over 90% of search engine traffic comes fromGoogle, Yahoo, and MSN. These three search engines provide results formany other search engines, and if you are listed on these three searchengines, 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 OpenDirectories like DMOZ.

When you see an ad offering to submit your site to thousandsof search engines save your money. It simply is not worth the time ittakes to sign up for their service and you are better off to spend yourmoney on another form of promoting.

What is worth the time and money is to submit your site to asmany different directories as possible. Directories are viewed by humanbeings before being approved for submission and their inclusion helpsincrease your link popularity as you have more and more links pointingback to your site.

Since your submission is viewed by human beings it isimportant that you make sure your site is ready to be submitted. To getyour site in shape to be submitted consider the following:

1. Make sure your site is completed. Fix all brokenlinks. Have all pages completed. Make sure it loads properly andquickly. If you want get another opionion on whether it is ready to besubmitted. Here is a good company that validates websites: Htmlvalidator.com

2. Find the correct category to be listed under.Although this can be frustrating it is important to take the time tofind the correct category and sub-category for your site to be listedunder. Choosing the wrong category could result in your site beingdenied.

3. Submit the correct URL. This needs to be your main domain and not sub-domains. In my case that would be 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. Youneed to keep it to 2 sentences and nothing more. If you have any doubtsabout how to write a good description go to your category and look atthe descriptions of sites already listed.

5. Use the official title of your site. This needs tobe the REAL Title of your site and not just the part that shows in yourbrowser. 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)

Dir.yahoo.com

Dmoz.org

WithYahoo you will have to determine if you want a standard submissionwhich is free or an express submission which costs $299.00. Submittingto the ODP is free.

Here is another site I came across that offers rankings on the best directories to submit to Strongestlinks.com Directories

For a more in depth look at submitting to directories read this article here: Strongestlinks.com Articles

In conclusion submitting your site to directories is animportant part of the overall philosophy of getting quality linkspointing back to your site. The more the merrier. If you want to seewhat it will take to get a Top 10 ranking for keywords relating to yoursite just look at the number of links your competitors have pointing totheir sites.

You can easily do that by going here: Faganfinder.com Urlinfo

Enteryour the URL for your competitor and the click on the Links Button. Youcan see how many links they have pointing back to them according toYahoo, Google, and GigiBlast. You will see you need a lot of linkspointing to your site to compete with them. Adding your site to as manydirectories as possible is one way to do that.

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