Knowledge Base

A Web directory is an online database of directories which organizes Web sites by subject, and is usually maintained by humans instead of software. The visitors look at sites in a categorized mannar and menus. Web directories are usually much smaller than search engines’ databases, since the sites are looked at by humans instead of by spiders.

Type of Directories

Based on the type of listings accepted
Most of directories are ‘general’ directories and list websites from a range of categories, types and regions. But there are also some directories which focus on restricted regions, languages, or specialist sectors, which are popularly known as ‘Niche Directories’.

Based on the method of listing
Directories have various method of listing, often depend upon the price paid for inclusion:

• Free submissions
• Reciprocal link
• Paid submission
• No follow
• Featured listing
• Bid for position
• Affiliate links

How to get your site listed in Directories?

There are two ways for sites to be included in a Web directory’s database; either the webmaster can submit the site to the Web directory, or the directory’s editor(s) might come across that site and include in the directory’s database.

You can now have your website manually submitted to 500 Directories for $99.95 only! Place your order right away.

Submit2Please.com was launched in March 2006. It was an instant hit as it addresses a fundamental service gap! It is difficult to find reliable, honest and quick vendor to go out in the field and actually do reliable and SEO friendly link building exercise at a reasonable price.

Since we have launched, we have got one question several times. Therefore we have decided to answer this here-

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Does it help to submit my site to not-so-popular web directories? If yes, how?

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It does help to submit your site to not-so-popular web directories. There are several reasons to support this claim:

1. The directory may not be popular today and therefore offering free submission. They might become popular in days to come and then they might not allow free submission. Therefore you should catch them young!

2. Every incoming link is valuable. A listing in any quality directory will get you an additional incoming link, which adds to the “importance” of your website.

3. Even if the directory is not very popular, it will send some traffic your way. There is no harm in getting some extra visitors for free! In fact the probability of you getting a visitor from a not-so-popular directory is higher. They have lesser listings, giving you higher visibility and thus higher probability of being visited.

4. Every directory is owned by a webmaster. So whenever you are submitting your website to a directory you establish a link with another webmaster. It is up to you how seriously you take it. We have experience of getting business and personal referrals from webmasters whom we came to know during link exchange or submission of our own sites to their directories. It was not a fluke, as this was not a one-time experience!

5. It is “too much of work” to revisit the directory in future and then submit the site to the directory when it has become popular. Submitting a site to a directory takes few minutes. It is useless to keep it pending for future, when doing the submission does not cost you anything and is not going to hurt your website! So, just do it.

For the same reasons, we will also prefer to partner with link-exchange partners who has lower pagerank and popularity. If a company is agressively doing link exchange campaign, it is not far from a good pagerank. So better join hands now!

If anyone is looking to get their website listed in these directories, they can either go for our 700 various PR Directory Submission package or our monthly submission packages.

Unlike Search Engines, the process of review of directory submission is carried out manually, by “Experts”. They also have stringent rules and guidelines for listing your site. You may ask why; but these rules are there to ensure good directory submission and effective review procedures. It helps the editor to evaluate a site & decide whether to accept or reject it. All these combined results in a great deal of scrutiny being carried out before your site gets listed on directories.

But you can easily make your submissions an instant success with most of the directories. All you need to do is pay a little attention to the details you provide for Directory Submission. Your little efforts will be richly rewarded. Here are few Golden rules you should always follow before starting of on your Directory Submission campaign.

Before You Begin Directory Submission

Before you begin directory submission, make you have taken note of the following:

• Do not submit a mirror page; most directories don’t accept mirror pages.
• Do not submit any “Under construction” pages.
• Always submit the top-level domain of your site. For example: Do not add index.html or any sub domains.
• Check all your links. Broken links are a sign poor site management which may not go down well with the directories.

Chose the most appropriate Category for your site

Web directories are sorted by topic and editors frequently take great pride in ensuring that everything stays well categorized. So, put up your website in the right category. The search engines look at the various links that are on the page on which you are listed. This can lead to better rankings.

Tip: To find appropriate categories for a site, you can go to Dmoz and type in the product/service keyword. You can also search for your rival site and check out the category under which they are submitted.

Pay attention to the description and use of key words

The most common restriction forced by directories is on the size of your description & keywords. The trick is to come up with such a description for your site that can conveniently fit into 100, 150, 200, and 250 characters length. Do all this before you get down to the real job of directory submission. The reason for keeping four lengths of description is that you never know which one will be accepted in which directory. Remember that you may not be able to pen down everything about your site, so write what is unique and relevant. Avoid using a sales pitch and/or promotional language. Try and be informative & friendly.

Here are few more points you should always bear in mind while writing a description for directory submission:

• Do not repeat your title or site URL in the description.
• Do not use all caps; use mixed case.
• Use complete sentences.
• Do not say the word site or website, as in “this site offers”
• Do not use any hype like “the best” or “excellent.”
• Fit your main keyword phrases in but do not repeat them.

Once you have taken care of all these, you have over come the most difficult part of directory submission. The same should be followed for keywords. When it comes to directory submission, all you need to do is to pick up the most appropriate one and hit enter.

Tip: This is what I call an ideal description for my site Submit2Please, “We submit Web Sites, Articles, Blogs, Press Releases, Scripts and RSS Feeds to Search Engine Friendly Directories. The directory submission is carried out manually by trained in-house directory submission experts.”

Site Title

Pay attention to your site title. You should ideally not use any URL & key words in it, until & unless they are absolutely necessary to describe your site. Remember, be precise & straight forward!

Tip: You should identify at least 5 titles for your site & rotate them during Directory Submission. In this way you can get the maximum optimization benefit for your site through Directory Submission.

All the above mentioned “Golden Rules” stand good for most directories on the internet including Dmoz. Thus, by exercise necessary caution before directory submission, you can save a lot of precious time and energy. With the right advice and steps, directory submission may be the most significant thing you will ever do for your website.

We strongly recommend that you keep the following things in your mind before starting off with your directory submission campaign:

• Most directories are not automatic softwares / scripts, but they are actual human beings behind every directory. Every submission is evaluated by a human, know as “Editor”.
• The website should be complete. Under construction websites or those with dead links are generally rejected by many directories.
• Make sure that your website has got real content written in English. Sites with Spammy, unreal content will be definitely rejected by these directories.
• Many directories accept only the Home Page URLs and don’t accept URLs of inner pages. Hence, if you are looking to generate deep links to your site, directory submission is not an option for you. In this case, Article Submission, Social Bookmarking Submission and PayPerLink are the services which you should opt for, for generating deep links.
• While submitting your site, you should always provide a valid, working email address. Invalid email address can get your submission rejected. However, you should not give out your main email address cause then, your inbox will be bombarded with spams!
• Use descriptive words for a website title and description. Avoid any type of promotional language. However, do not refrain from using keywords. An example of a good title will be “Submit2Please – Organic SEO Services” and that of a bad title will be “Submit2please #1 SEO Company in India”.
• Do not capitalize the first letter of every word and also do not use all caps in your title or description. This is a very basic mistake committed by virtually all of us.
• Please choose your keywords carefully. Do not use unrelated keywords which have no connection to the theme of your website.
• Most of the directories we will reject websites with adult, warez or illegal content or that link to adult, warez or illegal content, sites that is a mirror site or primarily contains links selling affiliate products.
• Again, most of these directories accept only sites in English. If you have a non-English website for which you are looking for SEO / Link building, then our Local Search Optimization is the best option for you!

To know more how you can make your directory submission campaign a success, please contact our representatives right away!