Why spend your time submitting your website to directories if it seems like nobody uses them anymore? Web directories are very useful to attract visitors to your website. Web directories have been around since the beginning of the internet. Yahoo! Began on the internet as a web directory, it was one of the biggest and best organized web directories at the time (at this moment they still are one of the biggest and best organized).
Directories rely on websites submitted to them. Then a team of the directory is looking at the site to approve it or decline it. If it is a site with a good quality and relevance the team will most likely approve the site.
Because humans check the relevancy and informational “worth” of a site before adding it to the directory, search engines can rely on this process being carried out for them and that the sites have been described correctly. The directories were your website is accepted are providing a link to your site. If you submit your site to alot of directories it will improve your SERPs in the search engines.
Link populariy is a very big part of SEO. Using web directories is a great way to build more links and increase your site’s SERPs. People will not use web directories alot but spiders are. Spiders will still regularly index them and the links they contain. This is why submitting your site to web directories is still very usefull.
DMOZ is one of the best known and biggest directories on the web. DMOZ has been online for years now and lists over 4 million sites. Alot of other directories and even Google are taking content from the ODP (DMOZ). This means that if your site is listed in DMOZ, your site will get alot more inbound links and your link popularity will grow fast. If you get listed DMOZ, you can consider your site of high quality and relevance.
If you are submitting your site to directories, your description is very important. You have to describe your site and what it is all about. It is not advertising space. You don’t have to sell anything. Just describe what your site is all about and you will get accepted faster.
Submitting your site to web directories is one of the easiest ways to increase your link popularity. It might not give you that much traffic. But it will help your search engine rankings. And that will give you lots of traffic.
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March 6th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Be honest … you just want us to use your directory.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
haha
no im serious man 
March 6th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Haha Nomar, there’s no need to be ’shy’. .
March 6th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Well, I submitted my blog and restaurantselector.com to your directory Nomar
However, I agree completely with this though. Web Directories are very important. I myself have used one at least once to find a site that was relevant to a topic I was looking for.
DMOZ hasn’t accepted any of my sites
Anyone here have a site listed on DMOZ?
March 6th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Don’t the search engines realize whats going on here and reduce the link importance of directories?
March 6th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
You’re right. Great source of back links for improving PR. Check out vilesilencer’s list.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Final Fantasy 7,
As far as I can tell, no. Directories can get high Page Ranks and generally not banned by Search Engines.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:17 am
I’ve read that submitting to directories can be hurtful because the links are poor quality…what should i do!?
March 7th, 2007 at 6:46 am
@ Gregg I guess it depends on where you submit to. Not really true on the poor quality part. In fact with the higher PR directories, you would only gain, not lose out.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:56 am
You can get into the sandbox if you submit to 1000 directories when you just start. But normally, its not hurtful
March 7th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Directories are meant to compile lists of websites for easy reference, anyway. It is like listing your business up for others to refer to.
March 8th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Yahoo is a very expensive directory at $299.00/year
and for some reason I don’t think that DMOZ gets updated much anymore.
Having your website listed in directories is a good way for people to find you.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I agree on Yahoo. It is very expensive !! I am not submitting to yahoo (yet)
March 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Actually the reasone pepole don’t like directories is due the time they comsume to aprove the site(could be 1 year)so y would one wait and rely on these direcotories.
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April 27th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I submitted my website to directories but, i still need to enter in DMOZ, i described my webportal very good but they havent read or allowed my submission yet.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
June 5th, 2007 at 7:06 am
I need help for my final exam, an HTML project, I need suggestions and instruction on how to build HTML.
Can you guys help me, please?
Many thanks.
Moni
June 5th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Explain more
April 4th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
thanks a lot..