Website directories are web-based resources that list websites according to topic/niche. You might have heard of the DMOZ and Yahoo directories; they are human edited directories where any website owner can submit their websites to these directories and editors will manually review and approve the listings. The reason that directories like Yahoo and DMOZ are called human edited directories is because of the manual review process.
Directory submissions are a procedure where your website is submitted to different directories
according to their quality guidelines. In order to even get reviewed by a human editor, let alone
approved – you must follow the submission guidelines for each directory that your website is submitted
to.
There are hundreds of QUALITY web directories on the internet today. If you don’t know
what a directory is exactly - a directory is simply a categorized list of websites sorted by topic. As an
example, visit www.dmoz.org and you’ll find a number of categories on the home page and hundreds of
sub-categories for each category as you dig deeper into the website. DMOZ is a good example of what
a quality directory should be – and it’s free to submit to. But, there are hundreds of smaller directories
online where you can submit your website for free as well. Once you get your website listed in these
online directories, your website can get free traffic and other benefits – such as permanent one-way
backlinks, which can help improve your website’s search engine rankings.
Benefits of listing your website with free quality directories
• Provides permanent links, which improves your link popularity.
Once your website is listed in a directory, it’s there to stay.
• Improves keyword relevancy for your website with “themed” submissions and targeted anchor text.
Directory submissions allow you to get links from related pages. For example, if your website is
related to real estate, your directory submission will only be approved if you submit your website to
real estate directory, or at least a real estate category within a general directory.
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