Directory Submission Service

- It provides permanent links, which improves your link popularity.
- Improves keyword relevancy for your website with "themed" submissions and targeted anchor text.
- It allows you to get links from related pages.

E.g. If you submit your site in specific category which is not relevant to your site then you will not able to extract Listing from it.

The motto of approval of your site is for When you submit a website to a directory, an editor reviews and approves it, thinking that website will be beneficial to visitors of that directory. So in that respect, directory links are literally like natural links.

Usually when you want to build links and want a backlink from a particular website, you'll have to trade links with them or pay for a permanent backlink. However, directory links are free and permanent without any reciprocal link exchange needed. If your site is a quality website, most directory owners will be happy to link to yours simple for the asking.

Whether you're submitting your website to directories yourself or hiring an SEO firm, it's considered a good investment. For a one-time investment of time or money, you'll receive permanent links which will help increase the visibility (and popularity) of your website for years to come; it's well worth the investment.

As an example, let's say we want to submit www.submitera.com to the DMOZ.org directory.

The first thing we should do is identify the right category for the directory submission - and we can do that by visiting http://www.submitera.com. The website is actually a site with information about SEO Services. So, we will need to find a suitable category for this website on DMOZ. Usually, the SEO Site sub-category will be available somewhere under the internet marketing category.

So, we will go to: Internet>Internet Marketing>SEO Firm

Now we will just need to locate the "suggests URL" link in this category. By clicking the suggest URL link, you'll be directed to a submission form where you can submit the website's details. Information such as the website title, URL, and description will need to be placed in the form. Just as with many other directories, DMOZ or ODP has their own set of submission guidelines, which you should read before you input your website's information. Take note: if you do not follow the submission guidelines, editors will review your site but they will not approve it. Be sure to read and follow the submission guidelines for every submission.

Each directory has different criteria, also called "Submission guidelines" that must be met when you submit a website to each of the different directories. But, generally speaking, for each directory that you submit your website to, you'll need to navigate through the categories until you find the most fitting category for your website, and then click on the "Add link", "submit website" or "submit" link in that category. The wording for the link may be slightly different in each directory - but it's pretty easy to figure out.

You can have a Directory Submission List sorted by pagerank. As you get their listing you will get traffic and permanent-one-way backlinks which will surely increase your search engine ranking.

There are really thousands of directories, but all of them are not so worthwhile as some of them are low quality and will not give any benefits here are the some negative points of it...

* Directory having some quality standards to submit/approve listings - Avoid submitting your website to a directory that approves EVERY website that is submitted to it. In these types of Directories there is almost no quality standard, and search engines will not trust these directories very much, and human visitors even less.

* Spam free resources - As suggested above, only submit to directories that accept "good" websites. If a directory lists MFA (Made for Adsense) websites or websites full of ads - skip these directories.

* Well indexed in search engines - If search engines like a directory, they will index (list) many of the directories internal pages. It's recommended to submit your website to directories that have good search engine exposure because this generally means that the directories are considered good quality or high quality.

* Regularly maintained without broken pages / dead links - A directory that is full of dead links or expired domains may lose their trust with search engines. To test out whether a particular directory suffers from these ailments - visit a few sub-categories of a directory and randomly click on some of the links contained within those categories to be sure that there's not a large number of dead links. Many directories approve a website and then NEVER check it again, regardless of whether the listed website maintains the submission criteria. Bottom line - try to get listed in directories that maintain their databases regularly.

* Have backlinks in search engines, or some established link popularity - As far as SEO is concerned, you can get high quality backlinks by submitting your website to directories. So, you should submit your website to directories that have backlinks themselves, which will often-times help increase the popularity of your website as well.

* Originality of the directory - Some webmasters purchase a domain, host it, install a directory script and use a common category dump to create hundreds of categories. You'll find that many directories have almost the exact same category structure. And sometimes, there'll be directories with the same websites in each category, which means that there will be nearly identical directories on different domains. These "cut and paste" directories provide little to no SEO value and not recommended for submissions. It's always better to submit to directories that have their own content, or at least differentiate their links/categories so that they are substantially unique.

A web directory is intended to be a library for the users. It is therefore the responsibility of the webmasters and developers to cooperate with the editors of directories so that the users get quality and reliable information.