Web Directory Resource

Top Tips for Submitting to Web Directories

Tips and Tricks

These are just some of the top tips that I have used. I will add to this list as often as possible because it is probably the most important list! I will also try and keep them in order of importance.

1. Create a new .txt file somewhere on your pc and name it something like mysite.txt. Add all your site details (title, description, URL, email and keywords) to this file. This way, you don't have to continually retype all the details into each submission form, but instead you can copy the details from this file. I actually have a number of sites in my text file and it assists tremendously.
2. Before submitting to a directory, check in what order the directory is listing the sites. If alphabetical, try and find a title that starts with a letter closer to the beginning of the alphabet. Remember numbers are lists before letters too! Don't forget, you need to be careful with this though, some directories may not approve a title that does not reflect the URL or site topic.
3. I find it handy to have a Gmail account (or any of the free mail accounts) to catch all the responders and approval emails. This keeps all these types of emails out of my personal emails on my pc. I found that this has helped me too in that my Gmail account has a nice categorising system where I can use categories like "pending", "accepted", "accounts" and "other".
4. Always check the Google PageRank (PR) of the home page of the directory you're submitting to. This will give you a fair idea of how popular the site is with Google. PR can be checked using the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer or check it on any site that has a PR checker.
   
   You can also use the free Firefox web browser and this includes the PR indicator.
5. Directories that have rel="nofollow" in their links to sites listed are not passing on any search engine ranking values to those sites. Hopefully, these directories can still provide the usually traffic from human visitors. Check the page source to see if this restriction is in the links.
6. Most directories that charge for submissions use PayPal. If you are looking at spending some of your hard-earned money on submissions to directories that are not free, I would recommend that you create yourself a PayPal account (or similar, if you haven't got one already) to save you time. You can dedicate funds to submissions by adding whatever amount you want to limit yourself to into your PayPal account. Then each submission to a directory that uses PayPal is much easier.

Web Directory Sources

Great Source of Strong Web Directories

• Now this has to be the best spot to get a list of top search engine friendly web directories! Tell Dan I sent you...
  Link: info.vilesilencer.com
• Aviva Directory has put together a great list of "Strongest Directories". These are ranked accourding to SEOmoz's page strength tool...
  Link: www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-directories/
• Quanta has put together a couple of lists that only include "the cream of the crop" free directories...
  Link: www.quantawebdesign.com
• SEO friendly, free, non-redirect, non-reciprocal, general and with indexed subpages.
  Link: www.addurl.nu
• This website has been created to help webmasters and site promoters find the top internet directories to submit their sites to.
  Link: www.best-web-directories.com
• SEO friendly paid directory list ordered by PageRank. Information provided includes Google backlinks, Alexa ranking and pricing information.
  Link: www.paiddirectorylist.com
• Directory Critic is a link building resource and list search engine friendly web and article directories for webmasters to use a site promotion tools.
  Link: www.directorycritic.com
• Linkforever has come up with a great list of what they think are the top 50 directories!
  Link: www.linkforever.net/top-directories.php
• "Value Directories is the Biggest Directories list featuring both Free and Paid directories in our database.We also have listed Niche Based directories example sports directories, health directories and gambling directories." - Value Directories List
  Link: www.valuedirectories.info
• One of the top directories! V7N Web Directory...
  Link: directory.v7n.com

Web Directory Traffic

List of traffic providers...

1. www.the100lists.com
2. www.DIReight.com
3. www.seocompany.ca
4. www.avivadirectory.com
5. www.thetopsites.net
6. www.a1directorysearch.com
7. www.isedb.com
8. www.1linkdirectory.com
9. www.web-directories.ws
10. www.joeant.com
11. www.directorycritic.com
12. www.directorylist.org
13. www.iti.com.au
14. www.australianaustralia.com.au AUS only though!

Highly Recommended!

Web Directory Software

• PHP Link Directory seems to be a popular one and has a long list of features. They also have a free (limited) version.
  Platform: PHP, MySQL
  Link: www.phplinkdirectory.com
• "Using eSyndiCat Directory Software your website can achieve top rank and take the leading positions in the most popular Search Engines!" - eSyndiCat
  Platform: PHP, MySQL
  Link: www.esyndicat.com
• "phpMyDirectory.com is focused on developing the multi-purpose, powerful, full-featured and secure Business Directory script based on PHP scripting language and mySQL database as a backend." - phpMyDirectory
  Platform: PHP, MySQL
  Link: www.phpmydirectory.com
• "WSN Links provides all the tools to run an SEO-optimized links directory and exchange links to build traffic, but its capabilities extend far beyond that." - WSN Links
  Platform: PHP, MySQL, SQLite
  Link: scripts.webmastersite.net/wsnlinks/
• "Is the thought of building your category structure worrying you? Don't worry, we have a variety of pre-populated category structures for you to populate your directory in a wide range of niche categories..." - PhPLynx
  Platform: PHP, MySQL
  Link: www.phplynx.com
• "OpenLD is a free extension-based directory script written in PHP." - OpenLD
  Platform: PHP, MySQL
  Link: www.openld.com