How Directories Can Boost Your Link Popularity and Search Engine Rankings

Inbound links pointing to a site are probably one of the most important factors for doing well in the search engines, since the more links you have pointing to your website, the more “popular” search engines will see your site as. A link to your site is considered a vote of confidence form another site and as such the more votes a particular site has the more weighting is given to a vote coming from that site. This can be seen as a character reference form a governor is a much better than a reference form a burglar, in fact this reference may even hurt a person, so the same goes for websites, so do be when choosing link partners.

Often at times when starting a new website, its almost impossible to get others to link to you unless you’re giving something away for free or offering a product or service that’s simply amazing.

This is where the big value of web directories comes in. Web directories are seen as an important and honest form of quality links by existing search engines, so naturally getting listed in a web directory can help to dramatically boost your ranking in the major search engines. They are a very effective way of gaining links early on in a website life cycle.

There has being an explosion of website directories recently so you should find it quite easy to find free directories who will happy to accept your link. There are three main types of directories you can submit to, free directories, these are normally the slowest to add your link though so take this into account. Reciprocal link directories these require that you add a link the directory from your site before your link will be added. Finally paid directories these require a fee in order to be listed, either this is a one time fee or a recurring fee so bear this in mind.

Once your site is included in a web directory, it’s usually there to stay. Search engine take into account the length of a link so a directory link will keep gaining value
When submitting it is very important to choose your category carefully as this is a major reason why sites are rejected. Next pay very careful attention to the titles and description that you choose for your site as this is very important and will affect how the search engine view your link and your site. You need to also make sure not to stuff keywords into your and description title (I know this can be tempting) as this is another major reason why sites are rejected from directories.

There are many sites that list directories and offer free directory list so I will refrain from naming any, but have a look at directory top sites which have some very good directories which are ranked by users.