There is much work involved with doing your own manual directory submissions but if you are intent on doing it all yourself it is possible.
There are so many directories out there that in order to start submitting, you will have to make an intelligent choice of web directories you can actually use. This list should be rather extensive as there is not much to gain from only submitting to a couple, your list should include at least 200 web directories. It will be money and time well spent going through the trouble of looking up more specific web directories, as those who cover a broad spectrum might not entirely be what you need for your specific product or service.
It is of key importance to submit your website to directories which have a category that is related as closely as possible to the content of your website, if you are off-topic, your submission will with high chance be rejected by the directories. General and specific directories can be found on Google and other search engines; search for ‘web directories’ and see the results. Google is not the only big search engine; there are other search engines you can use and even Wikipedia can provide you with both detailed and more general directories.
One of the requirements in order to submit successfully and get a review is submitting to web directories that are SEO-friendly. Don’t even bother to look into web directories that are not SEO-friendly as they will lead you nowhere. The whole thing about choosing the right and SEO-friendly directories is because only those web directories will ultimately provide you with the valuable links you want.
Once you have checked the links and your list of SEO-friendly directories is as complete as it can be, you can proceed to the actual submission of your web-site. You can start surfing to the web directories one by one and try to find a category that is as closely related to your site as possible; then look where you have to click to ‘submit your website’ or ‘create a link’.
Each directory has a form to be filled in when submitting your website. This is not a difficult thing to do as long as you remain careful and accurate, and generally all the directories ask for the same kind of information. First you will need to read through the guidelines of each directory as they have their own criteria and if you don’t follow the rules, your submission will be declined with no explanation from the editor of the directory.
Once you’ve read through the guidelines of all the web directories, you will have to choose a payment option. You will experience that most of the directories will be free of charge (although they might sometimes contain a possibility to pay anyway); the other thing to do is to work with directories that do charge a certain amount for submissions. Select how you wish to pay as there are a number of possibilities. Paid submissions obviously guarantee a fast service; you can expect your submission to be considered rapidly and you are likely to get a link on a favored position in the directory. If you don’t want to spend any money on submissions, you can go for free directories. The reviewing time here will range from days to months.
The form will ask you for a few more details. A title is important and should preferably be short but good, releasing just enough information. Titles should be around 45 characters. The URL section is for your homepage. Your web-site must be complete before you can even think about submitting, meaning you should at least have an up-and-running domain and substantial content. You can be sure to be rejected
The description field is not to promote your products and services but should objectively describe in about 250 characters what it is you do or sell. Imagine you are searching for something on a search engine the words potential visitors might research to find your site are exactly the keywords that should be in the description field.
Evidently, the web directories can’t do anything if you don't give them a name and an email account. A hotmail or a Gmail account is not very professional and will in many cases be rejected by directories; ideally, you have an email address that is related to your site.
The process of manual reviewing is a time- and energy-consuming process; as a result, automated submissions are very unlikely to be accepted. It makes perfect sense that a manual review requires a manual submission, hence the code you will be given to type in manually.
Often you are given the possibility to give a link back from your site to the directory. This is not required but if for some reason you decide to link back; fill out the Reciprocal URL field. In order to fill out this field, you will have to put a link to the directory on your web-site and then paste your URL into the ‘Reciprocal URL field on the submission form.
By now, you probably get a clue on how dull and time consuming this entire submission process can be. And even if you follow the steps and the guidelines you are still not sure that you will get a few good links out of it. You can easily outsource your directory submissions to professional Directory Submission Services; they have a team of experts acquainted with all the guidelines and will go through the time-consuming process for you at a reasonable price.
Author Resource:-
Michiel Van Kets has his roots in Antwerp, Belgium, but his home in Phuket, Thailand. His company offers the growing amount of professional SEO-companies the cheap fees they look for when outsourcing, while the service and so the results are guaranteed of high western quality. He knows the answer to the question: Can you recommend any quality directories?
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