Choosing The Right Directory To Submit To

All links are important and you have control of a lot of the links that point to your website at the early stages. You don’t want to link build for the sake of it and submitting your website to any old directory is just a waste of time.

Link building plays a big part and doing it right can help dramatically, link building is good for increasing Pagerank, driving more traffic to your website and promoting your keyterms. One of the well known reasons for using website directories is to help promote keyterms, it is also a good way of helping to increase pagerank. A few years ago you could use website directories to send you good targeted traffic but due to the amount of directories that have been created finding a good one is hard.

I use directories on a day to day basis and I know how important finding a good directory is. There are many free tools available on the web that can help you work out weather or not a particular directory is worth submitting to.

The fist thing to look for when finding a good website directory is weather or not it has been assigned a Pagerank by google, if it has been assigned a Pagerank then that must mean google favours it and the content it displays. I suggest submitting your website to all directories that have a descent Pagerank of 3 and above as the chances are google would have assigned inner pages with a Pagerank as well.

The second most important thing to look for is how much traffic that website receives as it might be convertible and produce some good targeted traffic. You won’t receive a lot of traffic but good directories can still send you a few visitors which can convert into sales. To find out a websites traffic stats you can use the “alexa traffic tool” to give you a good estimate on how many people visit the site daily, weekly and monthly.

When submitting to a website directory remember to use your keywords in the title to help increase the position of them in the search engine results page. Written by: Michael David Tedder Source: Submitting To The Right Directory