Undoubtedly, link building is the most powerful search engine optimization strategy and there are tons of creative ways to do this. Among these methods, submitting to web directories is the most popular.
Paid Vs Free Web Directories
The general truth is, paid directories provide better quality links over free directories. They aren’t paid for no reason. It is also true however, that not all free web directories are rubbish. In fact, there are a lot of free web directories with high Google page rank that offer quality links. You just need to be patient scouting the net for these kind of web directories.
While free web directories are a good option for those who lacked the budget, we can’t discount the fact that paid directories like Yahoo! can make so much impact on your website. Search engines value links coming from these reputable web directories so you get extra credit for these links.
Web Directory Submission Tips
1. Optimize Your Links
The one thing that most link builders tend to commit is to fail to optimize the links they submit to web directories. The better free web directories will ask you for a title, description, meta description and meta tags. Whenever you get the chance to include these to your submissions, make sure you take time to include them.
2. The Right Categories
When submitting to web directories, you will often be required to submit your website to the most relevant category. Take time to go over the available categories and choose the one that you think is the most relevant to your website. Lazy web directory administrators would not do the job for you and would rather prefer to delete your submission if it were included in the wrong category. That’s time and effort wasted.
3. Spammy Link Building
Another common mistake that link builders commit is to submit links to web directories all at the same time. The risk would be for Google and other search engines to consider your links as spams. Your time and effort could go to waste and instead of optimizing your website, you end up getting banned. It is highly recommended that you build links gradually to avoid any suspicion of spamming. The key is to make your link building look natural as possible.
4. Different Title And Descprition
Using the same title and description for your blog every time you submit to web directories is not advisable as this could again be treated as spamming by most search engines. Avoid this by using different but related titles and descriptions.
5. Quality Over Quantity
Quality over quantity is the rule of the game. 10 links from quality web directories hold more valuable than a thousand links from web directories with poor quality. How to spot quality web directories will be discussed in our future posts so make sure you check out our blog often or you subscribe to our feed.
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