Finding Quality Web Directories to Submit your Site to

While submitting tyour website to the Web Directories is still a cornerstone of many website promotion campaigns.

Although they are not quite as important as they used to be, they still serve some important functions.

The major engines such as Yahoo and MSN send out their robots to search the web for new resources that come up. Being listed in established web directories ensures that your website will be among those resources which are indexed quickly.

You can also build up your backlinks with directory listings. The top engines like Yahoo give a lot of weight to the number of backlinks to your website when ranking it for a specific keyword or keyword phrase and one-way links are considered by many SEO experts to have more relevence than the two way, traded links.

This is also why writing articles and forum signatures can help boost your site in the rankings.

So what makes for a good directory to be listed on?

I look for something unique, hopefully something with a custom design, different categories and of course a high pagerank, such as The RA Directory for example. I prefer to see it differentiated as much as possible from the many standard PHP directories out there. I do not mind paying a small charge to get listed as I know that this will allow the directory to have a smaller index and therefore send more traffic and PR to my site.

The majority of web directories that are out there allow you to provide anchor text (link title text) with keywords describing your site. This very important because It is not that easy to get links to your site with the keywords you want and web directories are one of the best ways to do this.

To get started finding directories to list your site, I recommend starting with directoryarchives.com and going from there.