Directory Submission:
A web-directory is a place where many links are present and grouped together in an organized fashion basing on their category and sub-categories.
Directory Submission is one of the methods of Link Building. By Link Building we get back links. The back links increase the traffic towards our site. Thus help us to get higher search engine ranking while the user searches for the keyword.
Directory submission is of Different types:
1. Free or Regular Links: No need to pay any money. But cannot guarantee to get the back link and also takes time.
2. Reciprocal Links: No need to pay any money. But we need to put the Directory Link in our website.
3. Sponsored Links: We need to pay some money.
Advantages:
1. Search engines give importance to the number of inbound links to the site and from web directories we get one-way inbound links
2. Increase traffic towards our site from search engines. (Get Targeted Traffic)
3. Increase popularity.
4. To get the attention of search engine spiders towards our site and thus get indexed and get high page rank in SE Results Page.
5. Most directories are free to submit.
Dis-advantages:
1. Mass directory submission is not good because it will affect the site ranking.
2. By blasting your site to thousands of directories, there is a risk getting site banned by the search engine.
3. If the site is put into sand box, the site will not appear in search results. It takes months to recover.
Different Directory Submissions:
1. Article submission
2. Blog submission
3. Social Bookmarking
4. Link building
5. Forum submission
Top Directories for submission:
1. www.dmoz.org
2. www.Yahoo.com
3. www.JoeAnt.com
4. www.webworldindex.com
5. www.worldwidewub.org
6. www.zeal.com
7. www.directori.co.uk
