There IS a Significant Benefit of Directory Submission!
Posted on October 10th, 2008 by the silent avatar
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Achieving good search engine visibility has become a necessity for every website today. Sometimes you can feel disconnected and separated from the rest of the world and disenfranchised a bit when you have gone to a lot of time and effort to create a product, get a website (or create it yourself), only to find that the traffic just isn't happening.
Submitting your site to a directory, or ensuring the major search engines have your site indexed is akin to putting a "now open" sign outside the front door of a shop.
Taking this analogy further, if you had a brick and mortar shop in some dark back ally without a sign to let customers know where you were, then you would have to expect not to do good business.
Likewise, getting a website up in a neighbourhood of thousands (of other websites), is no guarantee on it's own that you will be found. Sure just the fact that you are on the web a search engine spider will come along and index your site - but sometimes this can take months!
Once your website is up and running, the next step is all about being found!
There are many ways by which a website can get high rankings in major search engines. One such important method is directory submission. Then the best way for you to solve this problem is to get yourself connected.
Once a website is submitted it takes anywhere between 1 day to 3 months for the website link to be added into the directory. Whether your directory is targeting the local companies community or you are targeting the international health community, to ensure that your site gets added into the directory, your site must submitted to the most appropriate category otherwise it can be rejected.
Submitting your own site, rather than waiting can speed things up a bit for you, however there are literally hundreds of directories which you can submit your site to, and this can be time consuming.
If you have the money, go for a site submission service. I don't recommend any, as i deal with mainly people who are short on funds, and would rather do the leg work themselves and save a few bucks. That being said, this sinl;t something that you should not give priority to.
Submitting to one directory per day, will give you 365 listings in a year! (not bad at maths eh?).
Most times though we get side tracked, and forget this valuable resource which only takes our time.
My Suggestion is to create a "task" in Outlook (or Google Mail), and remind yourself to do this. Even if you only do it once a week, you will be listed in 52 directories. Obviously the more the better!
Submitting to a directory provides a way for search engine spiders (also known as crawlers or robots) to find your website and index it in their own database. Also, as soon as a site is hosted, it must be submitted in web directories so that search engine robots can crawl it. Since these robots visit directories more often than other sites, probability remains high that your site will be indexed soon. People will begin to respect what you are doing and may tell more people about your directory since they are starting to feel that your directory is more people oriented instead of just simply getting the most listings in the world.
A directory placement provides the extra benefit of getting relevant traffic to your website, which is why it is critical to list your site under the correct category. For example, searching for the "companies opportunity " in companies opportunity directories is a good way to find the legitimate offer you might be interested in.
Since people who are actively looking for new websites and portals often visit these web directories, chances remain high that such people may also visit your site and thus provide your site free traffic. Sometimes you can immediately find the opportunity that sounds really attractive for you and which have proven to be legitimate and effective over the years.
There are a number of directories which you can submit your website to to ensure that those who are looking for what you have to offer actually find you.
The more directories your submit to the more chance you will have being found, and the more likely people will see you are "now open".
To start, try this search to locate your site, and if not already listed follow their "submit url" link to include your site. I have included links you can add your site to below.
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