Choosing the Best Web Directories for SEO.

There are now thousands of web directories where you can submit your website for SEO purposes, ie - to improve your search engine ranking, as well as visiblity for human visitors search a directory category for a business such as yours. A few are free, some require paid inclusion and some request a reciprocal link. With so many available on the internet, how do you choose? Here are a few tips.

Ideally, a directory should contain relevant content to your site. You will gain credit for the relevancy of the link and anyone who follows the link to your site is more likely to be interested in your services.

Many believe that DMOZ.org and the Yahoo! Directory carry greater weight for some search engines. As DMOZ is free, you should start here, but be careful to choose the most applicable category to reduce the chance of delay or rejection by its editors. Yahoo! requires a relatively large fee to be considered, so it is most suitable for those who are considering the long term marketing of a site.

Make sure that the page where your link will appear is indexed by search engines. Check that there are no NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW commands in the meta tags and that no NOFOLLOW commands are refering to the links already present.

Make sure that the link to your site will be direct, rather than through a redirection system.

Most now believe that you will get more credit for a one way link to your site, rather than participating in a link exchange.

Hopefully, these tips will help you to narrow down your search. Good luck! Updated 13-10-06

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