List of Free SEO Friendly Directory

=> Importance of Directory Submission

Given below is the list of free seo friendly directories that we submit to. This directory list is regularly updated. At present, there are 1500 directories in this list. To get started with your directory submissions,
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Note: These are general Business & link directories that have been hand picked to suit all kinds of websites irrespective of whether they target a global, city specific, industry specific or niche audience.

If you’re not clear about what web directories are and how directory submissions can help, then you should perhaps read this first: ‘What are web directories and how can they help my site?’

You obviously realize the importance of directory links and how they can help improve your site’s rankings. However, getting these directory links is not easy. There are hundreds and thousands of web directories out there and you would need to make sure you submit to all the correct directories, i.e. there are also plenty of directories from where getting a link would be completely useless, you would need links from seo-friendly directories.

So the first thing to do is getting your list of seo-friendly directories. You would then need to make sure that the list is updated else you would waste time in visiting each directory just to find out that they don’t exist anymore or have become paid directories. You would need an updated list of free seo-friendly directories.

Once you’ve got your list, you would then need to convince yourself to sit through the monotonous task of opening each directory, finding the right category for your site, reading each directory’s set of guidelines, filling in the form correctly, entering the verification code and then hitting on the submit button. If any errors are shown after submission, you would then need to correct them and have the details re-submitted. You would have to repeat this hundreds of times. Wouldn’t it be wiser to spend the same time in doing something more productive and creative than indulge yourself in a task, which you could so easily outsource at minimal costs.

If you consider that every submission will take you a minimum of 3 to 4 minutes and that you can do around 15 to 20 an hour, that would mean your time is worth less than $3 an hour! [Calculation: Our service charges 14 cents per submission * 20 directories an hour = $2.80 / hour]. So, quite obviously the major benefit of using a directory submission service is the fact that you save plenty of time and money [unless of course you think that paying yourself $2.80 an hour is a good deal]

There are also some other major benefits to using a directory submission service [like ours]. Assuming you submit each site manually on your own, you would then need to make sure you kept track of all those submissions so that you don’t end up submitting to the same directories in the future. Services like ours offer the benefit of tracking your previous submissions and not charging you for duplicate submissions. If you got a list of new directories, you would need to sit through and remove all the duplicates first and then proceed to submitting to each one of them. It only adds to the already huge amount of time you need in doing directory submissions.

Another benefit of using a service like ours would be the flexibility of using many titles and descriptions for your directory submissions. It would be quite a task doing it manually – picking a different title & description for each directory and ensuring an equal distribution for the entire list of directories! We allow you to choose how many times you want a particular title & description combination repeated.

On the whole, managing the entire directory submission process is not only cumbersome but hugely time-consuming. One would either have to be really stingy or silly not to realize the benefits of using such a service. If you’re wiser than that , Sign up Here To Buy Directory Submission package.

A link to your site would count only if it’s possible for the search engines to “read” or “detect” the link. When submitting your site to a web directory, you’d want to make sure whether the link you get from the directory would be counted by the search engines. There are quite a few directories that give out links which are not counted by the search engines, i.e. they are not seo-friendly links.

So what would make a directory seo-friendly?

There are a few things a directory needs to do to ensure its seo-friendly:

There shouldn’t be a META nofollow or noindex tag on the link pages

If you find a links page with the following code in it: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”> then the links on that page wouldn’t be counted by the search engines.

The ‘noindex’ portion of the code basically tells the search engines to ignore that page and the ‘nofollow’ tells it not to follow or count any of the links on the page.

So even if one of those parameters exists in the meta tag of the link or category page, it would be considered non-seo-friendly.

The links shouldn’t have a ‘rel=nofollow’ tag on them

If the links on a page are displayed in the following format:
<a href=http://www.domain.com rel=’nofollow’>Domain</a>,
then the link wouldn’t be counted as the ‘nofollow’ tag again tells the search engines to ignore the link.

The links shouldn’t be javascript-generated

If you view the coded section of the links page and see that the links are being displayed in a coded format other than the standard <a href=”></a> format, then there’s a good chance that the link is being displayed through a script, which would again not be counted by the search engines.

The links shouldn’t be re-directed

Some directories link out through indirect links, e.g. <a href=”http://www.webdirectory.com/link.php?link_id=53”>Website</a>. These types of links are not valuable as they’re not direct links to the website.

The url of the links page contains too many parameters

http://www.webdirectory.com/link.php?u=23&as=2323434324&as=23423asfsfas &pw=32433

While this may not necessarily make a directory non-seo-friendly but it’s speculated that search engines don’t index pages with too many parameters in the url or place less value on links residing on such pages.

So if a directory is to be considered seo-friendly, it would need to pass all the criteria mentioned above. Directory submission ensures that all the directories on its submission list passes each of these criteria.

No one can be really sure of what exactly it takes to get on top of the search engine results. There are a multitude of factors involved.  However, it has been established for a fact that all search engines value the importance of links.

This is quoted from Google’s Guidelines for Webmasters:

When your site is ready: Have other relevant sites link to yours.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

This is quoted from Yahoo’s guidelines

Correspond with webmasters and other content providers and build rich linkages between related pages.

Source: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/ranking/ranking-02.html

Since it’s clear that links are important, the question is ‘do directory links count as well?’ Well, this is to quote another pointer from Google’s Guidelines for Webmasters:

Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Google’s guidelines state that you should submit your site to relevant directories. What makes a directory relevant to your site? Well, there are a number of general directories out there that include sites from all categories. So would these directories be counted as relevant directories? Well, they would to a certain extent, if there was an available category related in some way to your site’s theme. Placing your link in a relevant category in a general web directory will help search engines categorize the main theme of your site and the link would count, to a certain extent, in influencing your search engine rankings.

The basic premise is that while submitting your site to general web directories will not harm your site in any way, the directory links will on the contrary help build your site’s link popularity which can only be more helpful than harmful in your search engine ranking efforts.

Given the fact that most general web directories are free to submit to and there being quite a few directory submission services like ours that will help save you the time in submitting your site, there isn’t any real reason for you not to have your site submit

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