Importance of Directory Submissions

Directory submissions these days are really time consuming, sometimes frustrating. Also, they are being increasingly devalued by Search engines. Putting all your time & effort into submitting to 1000’s of directories is certainly a waste of time. Just submit your site into targeted niche directories that has quality and high PR, but those high PR directories ask you to pay for it. Mass directory submission is a lame practice that sites with no content and low traffic use.

Although Niche Directory submissions have their own importance, it is only one part of marketing and SEO. I would prefer to do the following instead, for effective link building;

• Blog Comments : Posting useful comments to big dofollow blogs.
• Article Directory submissions are better than Link Directories.
• Social Bookmarking
• Forums : Signature Links
• Niche Directory Submission can bring you natural traffic

The best thing is to create high quality content that automatically fetches links from other sites.

I think you should focus on quality directories like ;

DMOZ (http://www.dmoz.org)

Yahoo Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/)

Business (http://www.business.com/)

Librarians Internet Index (http://www.lii.org/)

Best of the Web http://botw.org/

Other well known Directories include;

• Starting Point (http://www.stpt.com/)
• JoeAnt (http://www.joeant.com/)
• About.com (http://www.about.com/)

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