Before going any further make sure you are ready to do this.
My site is 2 weeks old and I am only getting less than 5% of my traffic from search engines. I want it to be over 90%. In order to do that I need lot of links directed towards my site. And I learned the best way to do that is through web directory submissions.
I am not trying to be smart, I know lot of web site owners already know about web directories but only 1% has gone through the pain of doing this. So to make everyone’s job easier I compiled a PDF list of 5000 web directories where you can submit your site for free of charge.When you have all the links in your hand I think the job would be much easier.
So before downloading the list, Make sure you have all the data they require. Open your favorite text editor (i.e. note pad) and type the following data for easy access later.
1. Your web site address with http://
2. Site name.
3. Site description. (This is very important. Prepare an awesome 3 sentences long site description.)
4. Your Email address.
That’s it. Open the downloaded 5000 web directory list and start submitting. This is where the early entered data will come in handy. I started doing this yesterday and thought of submitting to at least 15 directories per day. This is pretty boring stuff and if I do it more than 15 times a day it would definitely kill me. And I skip all the sites which do not have a quality appearance and a google page rank. Keep in mind that there are many web directories which have a page rank of 5+. So coming links to your site from them will not do any harm for you unless you are john chow and could care less of another freaking link back to your site.
Before proceeding to the 5000+ web directory list I thought of listing few good ones here, because I know not more than 5% who read this will be interested on the whole list.
dmoz.org have a page rank of 8 but take a long time to get listed.
webworldindex.com is fast and have a google page rank of 5.
onemission.com/d.pl has instant link approval and has a page rank of 5.
wikidweb.com also have instant listing and they have a page rank of 4.
If you are too lazy I found 2 good companies which can do the job for you. If you do not have enough time to kill then this would be the best alternative rather than skipping the whole idea of getting 1000’s of links pointed to your site.
Submit Equalizer.(aff link.)
directorymaximizer.com ( not a aff link.)
Or else you can simply download the 5000 free web directory list here and start working on link building. Remember , You do not need all 5000 back links in order to see results. Good luck.
………Edited on 09th July 2008………
I found the best blog directories that you should submit your site to.They all have a high page rank and they are absolutely free. And the best thing is, there are only 8 in the directory list and there is a high chance that you have already submitted to at least 2-3 by now.
1 blogcatalog I know, I know you already know about this.But this list will not be complete without this.
2 lsblogs They have clean categorized listings and a page rank of 6.
3 bloghop Another well organized blog directory with a page rank of 6.
4 search4blogs This is more like a search engine and you must register before adding your blog.This site has a page rank of 5.
5 Technorati Again, The list will not be completed without this.
6 wilsdomain Relatively new one with a page rank of 3.
7 MyBlogLog If you are not already a member seriously consider this.
8 BlogTopList Unique directory with 100% live stats. A must consider one.
I could have easily turn this in to another blog post , But I thought it would be much better to add value to my existing posts. I am a human being and I might have missed some of the top blog directories. Feel free to add them to the list by simply leaving a comment here. If you think I have done a fair job at listing this blog directories please vote for me at BlogTopList. If you like the post please DO share….And all comments will get some link love as I have enabled "Do follow".
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