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General web directories

Free vs paid web directory submissions

Finding web directories

Concentrate on quality

Yahoo web directory

Niche web directories

Submission tips

Consider these tips when writing your website details for the submissions.

1. Ensure your website is ready for submission

   Web directory managers are looking to accept good, high quality websites, and nothing else. Before you start submitting your website ensure it looks good, is free of adverts, is not under construction and does not have any spam. If your site looks unready or unprofessional, for any reason, it is likely to be rejected from a web directory.

2. Check the web directory rules or guidelines carefully

   Popular web directories receive thousands of applications to review. Therefore, they develop rules and guidelines for your submission. These rules are put in place to ensure that the submission and approval process can flow as smoothly as possible, as well as to help the directory select only the sites that are, in fact, relevant.

   
   

Having a good web directory submission campaign will greatly increase the benefits your website will receive from web directory links.
Whilst submitting the same website details to a random list of web directories will give some benefit to your website, following our simple guidelines will gain your websites maximum benefit.

The purpose

The purpose of submitting your website to web directories is too gain more links to the website. Search engines consider these links a ‘vote’ for the website. This increases a websites position within search engine results, and ultimately drives more visitors to the website. If you plan a basic submission campaign you will have a promotional goal for your website, rather than just randomly submitting to web directories. You can also monitor the results, and apply your findings to other websites you may promote.

The Yahoo directory is one of the most important web directories on the internet, and is often considered the second most important, after the Open Directory Project.

The Yahoo directory was once a major part of Yahoo’s services. However in October 2002 Yahoo changed to a crawler based listings system, which resulted in the drop of the significance and importance of the Yahoo web directory. It is however still updated, and is valuable tool for web masters.

Submission options

The Yahoo directory accepts either ‘Standard’ (free) or ‘Yahoo! Express’ (paid) submissions. This strategy has caused many debates and controversy amongst the IT world, but has continued to be very successful for Yahoo and web site owners.

Web directories are an important part of the internet.

What is a web directory?

A web directory is a categorised collection of links to other web sites. Web directories are not search engines, and do not rank web sites like search engines. Most web directories do have a search feature, but do not order the results based on importance like a search engine.

Categories

Links within categories have a common theme. Most web directories have nested categories. For example a directory may have a ‘sports’ category, and within this category one might find a ‘soccer’ sub category.