Internet Directories – Tips For Submitting(continue)

November 7, 2009 by
Filed under: Search Engine Marketing 

How is your description?

Write a short description of your website to place in your directory listing. Write it as if you are telling someone else about this great site you have found. Make your website sounds interesting but make sure you don’t make your description sound like an ad. Your description should be no longer than 250 characters. This way it will fit within the requirements of just about all the directories.

Have available a few anchor texts and descriptions.

Your links from directory will appear much more natural if they are not all the same. Mix it up a little. Before starting the submission process have three or four different anchor texts and descriptions available to use for submissions.

Pick out the right category.

From DMOZ or Yahoo down to the smallest directory you will want to take great care in finding the correct category in which to place your listing. If you don’t search through and get the exactly right one for that particular directory chances are you website won’t get listed there at all. Editors of these directories are so busy they don’t have time to correct your mistakes. Moreover, the correct category for your listing coupled with the right anchor text in your hyperlink give the search engines more clues on how to index your site. The better your site is indexed,the more likely it will be that it will come up on the first page of a user’s keyword phrase search.

Are you submitting your website to enough directories?

Submit your website to all the free directory you can find. Even if they show no page rank it won’t hurt your website to be listed there. If you get one visitor or one sale or one link permanent, indexed link for each ten directory submissions you make you are doing great.


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