The Ultimate Guide to Directory Submissions (Part 4)
This article is by David Eaves. He has been working in the search engine optimisation industry for the last 5 years. You can read more of his articles can be found at his SEO blog.
How Many Directories Should You Submit To?
There’s no fixed number of directories that you should get listed in. Work out a 12 month directory submission budget for each site and then do so many each week or month for the full duration.
When you’re building links to your site via directories or any other method, you should do it over time. Submitting to 100 directories in a week and then forgetting about it won’t be as effective as spreading the 100 directory submissions over a 3 month period.
The Top 10 Directories
Finally, here’s a list of the top free and paid general directories to get you started.
5 of the best free directories include:
* Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org/)
* World Site Index (http://www.worldsiteindex.com/)
* Domaining.in (http://www.domaining.in/)
* Web World (http://www.webworldindex.com/)
* Search Sight (http://www.searchsight.com/)
5 of the best paid directories include:
* Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/)
* Best of the Web (http://botw.org/)
* Business.com (http://www.business.com/)
* Aviva (http://www.avivadirectory.com/)
* Ezilon (http://www.ezilon.com/)
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